Quotes of: Witness-stand Keyword

As I learned more about choice, and looked over the extensive evidence in all of the cases I had testified in, I realized that what was happening in the FLDS was human trafficking-both for labor and for sex. In mainstream society, money and lust are ...

The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice

Think about it: virtually every atrocity in the history of humankind was enabled by a populace that turned away from a reality that seemed too painful to face, while virtually every revolution for peace and justice has been made possibly by a group o...

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others

When it's summer, people sit a lot. Or lie. Lie in the sense of recumbency. A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to ...

Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion

Never during its pilgrimage is the human spirit completely adrift and alone. From start to finish its nucleus is the Atman, the god-within... underlying its whirlpool of transient feelings, emotions, and delusions is the self-luminous, abiding point ...

The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions

They ordered punch. They drank it. It was hot rum punch. The pen falters when it attempts to treat of the excellence thereof; the sober vocabulary, the sparse epithet of this narrative, are inadequate to the task; and pompous term, jewelled, exotic p...

W. Somerset Maugham

I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.

Tracy Morgan

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Peter Marshall

I'm equally comfortable in getting out there and taking a stand when I have to take a stand.

Sanjay Kumar

To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.

Sophie Turner

I'm so in love with you I can't stand up.

Kim Addonizio

Stand up and be counted, or sit your ass in the corner and color.

Lori Goodwin

I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.

Laura Mennell

I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.

Maisie Williams

Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!

Tom Selleck

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

Lenny Kravitz

If you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter.

Rachel Roy

You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.'

Gary Busey

You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'

Gary Busey

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

Christopher Reeve

He slides into second with a stand up double.

Jerry Coleman

Don't give up the fight, Stand up for your rights.

Bob Marley