Quotes of: Stands Keyword

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Colin Wilson

It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter.

Drew Curtis

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

David Foster

Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.

Daniel Goleman

I voted to repeal the individual mandate in Obamacare... I think people appreciate the fact that they know where you stand.

David Jolly

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

Jean Giraudoux

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

John F. Kennedy

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

John F. Kennedy

I feel small when I stand beside the ocean, next to all those fat people in bathing suits.

John Alejandro King

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.

John Lukacs

Teddy: Did your mother have any kids that lived? Vern: What do you mean?

Stand by Me

Noah Vosen: Issue a standing kill order on Jason Bourne, effective immediately.

The Bourne Ultimatum

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Aldous Huxley

I lived across the street from Noodle Bar. I could barely stand it, because you're there all the time; you can't get away.

David Chang

In moments of transcendence, when time stands still, your biological clock will stop. The spirit is that domain of our awareness where there is no time.

Deepak Chopra

Something I learn every time I stand in front of a bunch of children, I learn never, never to underestimate them or patronise them.

Michael Morpurgo

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

Robert Benchley

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Robert Louis Stevenson

The first time that I was elected I was called the Judas Iscariot of the black community because I took a stand that was inconsistent of cutting across the grain.

Tim Scott

I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.

Wen Ho Lee