Stand Quotes - page 3

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge. (Meister Eckhart)
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? View quote
Walt Whitman
There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along. But that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies. View quote
Ben Carson
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. View quote
Karl Marx
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
LOVE He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) View quote
Albert Einstein
Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together. View quote
Gerald Ford
Muddy water, let stand becomes clear. (Laozi)
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. View quote
Aesop
All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the quarries. Under cover, they play their part well; but in open and exposed situations the frost and rime make them crumble, and they go to pieces. On the seacoast, too, the salt eats away and dissolves them, nor can they stand great heat either. View quote
Vitruvius
Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia ... Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city. View quote
Vitruvius
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. View quote
Peter De Vries
Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. View quote
Earl Nightingale
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. View quote
Billy Graham
I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music. View quote
Billie Holiday
While all other Sciences have advanced, that of Government is at a stand; little better understood; little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. View quote
John Adams
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. (Thomas Jefferson)
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Although in our country the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a part only, but of the whole people of the United States. View quote
James K. Polk
Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. View quote
William James
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he. View quote
William Hazlitt