If you don’t make a stand for something you’ll never make a stand for nothing..

When she told me to sit down, I didn’t know where I stood with her. Ah, love—it’s like a chair. It’s always sitting, yet standing on its legs.

We have the greatest power through love that can be known. It overcomes everything with its fierce and steady truth, if you can continue to stand in it.

Instead of crying and begging for your love, you can stand and fight for it.

I can’t stand the idea of missing something. I’ve got to know what’s going on – it’s like an animal instinct with me.

I stand up for the things I believe in.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

I’ve always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

If you add your hot passion to the cold attitude of another person, it becomes lukewarm. Don’t stand on the toes of dwarfs; stand on the shoulders of giants!

If you don’t read the Holy Bible, you don’t stand a chance with the antichrist.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

I stand before you a changed man. Use me as an example of an instrument of change.

We don’t have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we’re channelling it through the new record.

As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create – and as someone who’s trying to write songs, I just hope I can stand in their company and not embarrass...

If you know who you are, then it will not be difficult for you to stand your ground and on your convictions.

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

If you don’t stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?

I will stand strong to defend people even if I don’t agree with them.

In terms of companies, they must stand for something bigger. They must be dedicated to something larger than financial results. I reject the Milton Friedman belief that a company’s sole responsibility is to the shareholders.

Give up smoking. Don’t get so fat. So much illness is self-induced – which I can’t stand. And I’m not a good nursemaid. Don’t call me if you’re ill.

On the left side of a strong woman, stands a strong man; he is strengthened by her character.

The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.

When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, that’s fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was...

I never wanted to be the face of the brand. You haven’t seen me in my own ads. You don’t see my logo all over my clothes. From the beginning, I wanted the clothes to...

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.

Don’t give up because of the dark days. Succeed in spite of them. The dark days make the bright days seem even brighter. So bright you can hardly stand it.

Face me and learn that I’m not alone, attack and you’ll find that my Leader stands beside me. I will bleed and I may die, but this warrior will not be shaken!” -Regan

Indifference does not make a difference

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.

What I have found is that real friends stand by you.

Sometimes I’m so sweet even I can’t stand it.

As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn’t do anything except just stand there.

Well, I think it’s important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.

One thing I cannot stand is when people say, ‘Hi, how are you?’ and they don’t wait to hear how I am. They’re just going through the motions. I say to people: ‘Keep it human....

I’m really tall, and I used slouch and think it was really uncool to stand up straight – now I wish I hadn’t been quite so dumb!

Get on your feet or die.

A lot of people my age think stand up sucks.

I am the people, I’m not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against...

I’ve always believed that the director does whatever the hell he wants. That’s what you sign on for as an actor – I can’t stand it when you have actors who are trying to leverage...

Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where it’s happening.

People can’t stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

My point is simply this: I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and hard core, radical way for the Lord. In the process,...

First of all, you have to understand that I’m like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice.

Nobody’s strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

You must stand firm if you wish to lead the firm

I can’t stand the club scene. It’s all about impressing people.

The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.

Every time I listen back to solos of mine I’ll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can’t stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts...