Quotes of: Stand-for-something Keyword

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

Jimmy Breslin

Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.

Julian Baggini

My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.

Jamais Cascio

What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.

Eileen Caddy

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.

Elfriede Jelinek

For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.

Janeane Garofalo

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Someone who has got something of his own only understands the pain than anyone without his own stand and pain got anything under the sun.

Anuj Somany

Jesus never spoke of truth in abstraction, as something that stands alone. Jesus always spoke of truth in relation to God being revealed through himself.

Life

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese

Fall seven times, stand up the eighth.

Japanese

The auto industry is standing today. The middle class is standing today. Ohio is standing today. America is standing strong today.

Ted Strickland

Every one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand is like every other one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand because the sex in a one-night-stand is without time and only time allows value.

Eurydice in the Underworld

It's not whether you fall or make a mistake, it's what you do when you fall. And I say you stand up. You keep standing up. It's not how many times you fall, it's how many times you stand up.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

The beauty of standing up for your rights is others will see you standing and stand up as well.

Cassandra Duffy

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. Jasper, knowing something was wrong, as dogs always do. Trunks being packed. Cars being brought to the door. Dogs standing with drooping tails, dejecte...

Rebecca

Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human conditi...

Joss Whedon

People buy pads all the time, because they want to write stuff down. We're never going to get away from paper, ever. People like writing; that's why more people are writing more real thank-you notes now - not just to stand out, but because there's so...

Marcus Buckingham

I want to stand on the foundation of ethics and morals when the world around me would assault that foundation with all of its collective might, and in the standing I want to stand on the truth that that foundation will stand long after everything tha...

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Coco Chanel