Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.
Charles Edison

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.
Kazuo Ishiguro

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
Harold S. Geneen

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.
James M. Baldwin

Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.
Ayrton Senna

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.
Stephen Spender

Sept. 11 represented a terrorist attack aimed at destroying everything that America stands for - our freedoms and our way of life.
John Whitehead

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
Vernon Jordan

Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.
George Byron

Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!
Mark Shields

Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.
Matthew Barney

St. Paul's Chapel stands - without so much as a broken window. Little miracle.
Rudy Giuliani

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln

Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.
James Hal Cone

Thailand stands at a crossroads.
Thaksin Shinawatra

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
Potter Stewart

The ANC, we believe, stands at the head of the whole liberation front, the whole Mass Democratic Movement.
Joe Slovo

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
Henry Ellis