Quotes of: Standing-up Keyword

We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected.

Dalai Lama XIV

Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.

Etta James

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

George Jessel

You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.

David Kirk

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

Dennis Kucinich

Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.

George Foreman

I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

Bev Perdue

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.

Pauley Perrette

Philip Marlowe: She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up.

The Big Sleep

Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense.

Avan Jogia

If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

Andrew Pyper

No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.

Brigitte Bardot

I recommend writing standing up from time to time. It's easier to dance when you finish writing.

Love

At last, Russia has returned to the world arena as a strong state - a country that others heed and that can stand up for itself.

Vladimir Putin

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.

Ziggy Marley

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on the issue of gay rights. It is not easy to stand up on that issue when you are single and male in New York City. I did it anyway.

Ed Koch

I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, 'This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.' The banana in Congo is called 'Dikembe.' So my uncle start calling me, 'Dikembe, Dikembe, lo...

Dikembe Mutombo

The things that knock you down in life are tests, forcing you to make a choice between giving in and remaining on the ground or wiping the dirt off and standing up even taller than you did before you were knocked down. I’m choosing to stand up tall...

Hopeless

Sometimes standing up for what you believe means standing down and allowing the universe to do its work.

The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved, and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann

The time is here for you to stand up for what you know is right. You must judge right from wrong. No longer can you be complacent or go with the flow or wonder what to do. You must decide now which path you will follow and which answer you will give....

Margaret D. Nadauld