Quotes of: Stand-for-something Keyword

...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

A hotel room all to myself is my idea of a good time.

My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

Some of us fought back with guns and assassinations. Others fought back with a little hot dog stand on the corner.

Mitosis

God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.

The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays

My heart starts to pound as he gets closer and closer to the stands, never taking his eyes off me.

Night Games

There is no good or evil here, it all depends on what side you're standing. Nor is it about wrong or right, it's about surviving." Triven

New World: Rising

1a) Never throw shit at an armed man. 1b) Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man.

N-Space

How long have you been standing there?" "Just long enough to see you give Daemon the middle finger." "He deserved it.

Obsidian

Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.

London Fields

I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

Let the Great World Spin

Can't figure women. Sometimes they're afraid of a spider, other times they're not afraid to stand right up to the devil.

Leaving Summer

Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.

My Merlin Awakening

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

Shadow of the Moon

I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.

Shattered Mirror

Standing around making ten dollars an hour—that’s what they pay me the big bucks for.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.

The Stand

Everything is funny from some angle, I assure you it is. It's just a matter of where you're standing.

Stoneheart

No chimpanzee husband would stand by while his wife lost all her coconuts.

The Sirens of Titan

A man who doubts himself shouldn't have to try too hard for too long, not until he's seasoned.

The Stand

Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.

The Stand

It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.

The Stand