It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
Ayn Rand

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert Einstein

It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics.
Hjalmar Schacht

It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into the stands.
Isiah Thomas

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
Wendell Phillips

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.
Tommy Lasorda

Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.
Duke Snider

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.
Michael Bloomberg

McEnroe has got to sit down and work out where he stands.
Fred Perry

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.
Aubrey de Vere

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S. Truman

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
Henry A. Wallace

My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
Yakov Smirnoff

My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.
Alfred Jodl

My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out.
Lonnie Donegan

My record of 13 goals in the World Cup finals still stands.
Just Fontaine

National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung.
Alfred Rosenberg

No man is an island. No man stands alone.
Dennis Brown

No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do.
Kim Weston