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When I stood up to oppose an invasion of Iraq in 2002, it wasn't a popular thing to do.

Chellie Pingree

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau

I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

Irving Penn

I've been so incredibly blessed. I've worked with some of the greatest professionals in town. I stood at the Golden Globes.

Isaiah Washington

You know, once you've stood up to cancer, everything else feels like a pretty easy fight.

David H. Koch

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

James Larkin

Cynthia Purley: I wouldn't know him if he stood up in my soup!

Secrets & Lies

At that time, people wanted to be frightened. The Thing had come out, The Day the Earth Stood Still had come out, and these were all frightening movies.

Ann Robinson

The evening before I departed I stood on the rim of a lagoon on Isla Rabida. Flamingos rode on its dark surface like pink swans, apparently asleep. Small, curved feathers, shed from their breasts, drifted away from them over the water on a light bree...

About This Life

His sisters -- my aunts -- did not go to school at all, just like millions of girls in my country. Education had been a great gift for him. He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians t...

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

A sullied green “S” stood out on a graying backdrop that made for a road marker up there. We called it the wasteland.

Snatched

The ocean filled the footprints where a boy and cat had stood.

Time Cat

Mackenzie flinched. Struggling to breathe, she stood up and walked over to the table.

Plenty of Fish

Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it.

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.

Women in Love

I was just a mere mortal and he was a god. I never stood a chance.

Zeus, Inc.

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

Gerry Adams

My mother is a tall woman - as is everyone in my family. At her prime, she stood 5 feet 9 inches, which is quite unusual for a woman born in 1922.

Judy Gold

God empowered him; and my father, when he stood to preach, he wasn't preaching his message, he was preaching God's message.

Franklin Graham

I would love for people to be able to think of me as a guy who stood up for what he believed in and helped make a difference for the vets.

Chris Kyle

I stood there amazed. I found it all hard to believe, that I, Des Nilsen, had actually done all that.

Dennis Nilsen