When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue...

If you plant your crops in the weather of pride they will grow tall and fall down. Take away pride and your dreams will stand.

I couldn’t stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.

I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big – that’s the only way to get it… I just couldn’t stand being anonymous.

I’m conservative, and people know where I stand. They can trust me to do what I say I’m going to do. I’m predictable.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

I think Bloomberg’s broad vision of the environment in New York City is something I agree with. I broadly stand with his vision for how to deal with climate change and prepare for future weather...

Any girl can look glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don’t like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

This idea that you can’t be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don’t stand for anything and are impatient with people...

We in the West should stand by our core principles.

So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

I think it’s really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it.

Don’t let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.

Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday.

People do not come to a Penn & Teller show to see a magic show. They just don’t. They come to see weird stuff that they can see no place else, that will make them...

Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain.

I could have done it”.

Don’t hide yourself. Stand up, keep your head high and show them what you got!

I’ve been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in Siberia. It is completely cut off from the rest of the...

It is not only all right but necessary to stand up to George Bush.

I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.

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.