Stand Quotes - page 4

The more I learnt about this cheeky – almost rebellious – company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative in a complacent and creatively bankrupt industry. Apple stood for something and had reason for being that wasn't just about making money. (Jonathan Ive)
The snake stood up for evil in the Garden. View quote
Robert Frost
That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Those who stand for nothing fall for everything. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear. View quote
L. Neil Smith
People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz. I see evil around me every day. View quote
Newt Gingrich
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. View quote
Joseph Addison
If ever the Time should come, when vain & aspiring Men shall possess the highest Seats in Government, our Country will stand in Need of its experienced Patriots to prevent its Ruin. View quote
Samuel Adams
Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long, Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner. Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years, Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more Till like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still. (John Dryden)
The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise. View quote
John Dryden
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters. View quote
Donald Trump
Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go Be our joys three-parts pain Strive, and hold cheap the strain Learn, nor account the pang dare, never grudge the throe. View quote
Robert Browning
The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead. View quote
Robert Browning
There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat. View quote
Lillian Hellman
Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago. View quote
Christina Rossetti
Every tub must stand upon its bottom. View quote
Charles Macklin
Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. (Anne Lamott)
The greatest want of the world is the want of men-men who will not be bought or sold, men who in their inmost souls are true and honest, men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole, men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall. View quote
Ellen G. White
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. View quote
Oscar Wilde
American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. View quote
Don DeLillo
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit. View quote
Davy Crockett
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