For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.
I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.
You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
A lot of girls in L.A. just stand in the corner wondering 'Who's gonna talk to me? Who am I gonna diss?'
Whatever confronts your faith can be a test but if it stands to oppose the content of your personality and the validity of your convictions then it's threat.
People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do.
It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
Historically, my lack of success; had a direct correlation with me silencing my authenticity. Summon the strength to stand in your truth.
I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.
Frankly, if 'American Idol' was the way I'd have to audition as a singer, I'd be standing behind the counter in a 5&10 right now. I couldn't have done it that way.
I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.
The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.
I have said from the beginning, I would spend what it would take for the people of Connecticut to know who I am and what I stand for.
I am my parents' daughter, and I always want to be. But I first wanted to make sure that I was standing on my own two feet.
I don't have a desire to make films that have cardboard cut-out or Hollywood stand-in replicas of humans. I need the real deal.
It appears to me that one defeats God precisely by not trying to stand above God, but on the contrary by using God's own existence against God.
In-N-Out Burger has a well-known and long standing reputation as a corporation that is operated with a Christian message and philosophy.
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.
