Quotes about stand
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“If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.”

Roddy Doyle (1958) Irish author

Hell, Princess

“Don’t worry. I won’t send you off without warning. Just stand there and be awed by my beauty. It’s the safest mode around me. (Savitar)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

Beauty

“Look no farther than your hand,
Make a choice and take a stand.”

Shannon Hale Princess Academy

Source: Princess Academy

“I looked up to find a slim blond figure standing in the doorway to the kitchen. For a frozen second, I looked at him and he looked at me, and then I screamed and threw my coffee, which hit him square in the groin.”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Hunt the Moon

Coffee

“Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“What's with what you're wearing?" Griggs asks while we stand outside waiting for the others.
"It's pretty hideous, isn't it?" I say.
"Don't force me to look at it," he says. "It's see-through."

That kills conversation for a couple of seconds.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Waiting

“Still clutching each other by the arm, they turned to watch the last stones plummet over the edge.

“I don't know how many times a day I can stand to watch you almost die,” Seregil gasped.

“Twice is my limit,” croaked Alec, sinking to his knees.”

Lynn Flewelling Luck in the Shadows

Source: Luck in the Shadows

Time

“I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

“Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.”

Francine Rivers book A Voice in the Wind

Source: A Voice in the Wind

Fight

“As it stands right now, I lead Richard Pryor in heart attacks, two to one. However, Richard still leads me, one to nothing, in burning yourself up.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Heart

“I stand for what I stand on.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

“I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.”

Renata Adler (1938) American author, journalist and film critic

Source: Speedboat

Thinking

“What are you doing here?”
All right, he was standing in front of an easel, holding a paint palette and brush. “Taxidermy?” he responded with just a touch of his own sarcasm.”

Robyn Carr American writer

Source: Wild Man Creek

Painting

“There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.”

Warren Ellis (1968) English comics and fiction writer

Source: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

People, Idea

“I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for, but I admire their discipline and their organization.”

Howard Dean (1948) American political activist

Maggie Haberman, "Dean's Howling For Shot To Lead DNC Into Future Battle To Head Democrats", New York Daily News, January 30, 2005. Retrieved from Proquest May 12, 2016.

Hate

“It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.”

Georgette Heyer book April Lady

Source: April Lady

“Your hair looks funny," Lief said, as soon as the Ugloids left. "It stands straight up!"
No," said Nick, intensely irritated, "It's hanging straight down."
Lief just gave him an upside-down shrug. "Up is down in China and you're part-Chinese.”

Neal Shusterman book Everlost

Source: Everlost

Parting

“What I saw was more than I could stand. The noise I heard had been made by Little Ann. All her life she had slept by Old Dan's side. And although he was dead, she had left the doghouse, had come back to the porch, and snuggled up by his side.”

Wilson Rawls book Where the Red Fern Grows

Source: Where the Red Fern Grows

Life, Dead

“He could not stand. It was not
That he could not thrive, he was born
With everything but the will –
That can be deformed, just like a limb.
Death was more interesting to him.
Life could not get his attention.”

Ted Hughes (1930–1998) English poet and children's writer

Life, Death

“There is but one task for all --
One life for each to give.
What stands if Freedom fall?"

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Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

Source: Complete Verse

Life, Freedom

“Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.”

William T. Sherman (1820–1891) American General, businessman, educator, and author.

“I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

Truth

“He sounded harassed more than anything else, like mass home invasion was just something standing between him and morning coffee.”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

Home, Coffee

“Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

Love, Life, Peace, Feeling

“My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: Understanding Our Mind: 50 Verses on Buddhist Psychology

“I’ll never pause again, never stand still, till either death hath closed these eyes of mine, or fortune given me measure of revenge.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Death, Revenge

“Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

Death

“If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.”

Confucius book Analects

Source: Analects of Confucius

Way

“She remembered timidly standing atop the Luthadel city wall, afraid to use her Allomancy to jump off, despite Kelsier's coaxing. Now she could step off a cliff and muse thoughtfully to herself on the way down.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Hero of Ages

Way

“My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

Home, Tree

“I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.”

O. Henry (1862–1910) American short story writer

Source: The Complete Works of O. Henry

People, Music, Painting, Forgetting

“When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.”

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

Religion

“either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

Source: Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

“You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.”

Queen Latifah (1970) American musician and actress

“Faith is to fear nothing, to stand unswayed, the power to surmount any obstacle.”

Daisaku Ikeda (1928) Japanese writer

Fear, Faith

“I will never give up… I will never give up! As long I'm still breathing in this world… As long I'm still standing, I will never give up!!!”

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

World

“We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.”

Charles Frazier (1950) American writer

Life, Pain, Strong, Happiness

“People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left.”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

Shock and Awe (2003)

People

“The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likeable. In three days no one could stand him.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22 (1961)

Nature

“Because I have no boobs. My ears stand out, and I have freckles all over me. (Grace)
Boobs? (Julian)
Breasts. (Grace)
You have very nice breasts. (Julian)
Thanks. What about you? (Grace)
I have no breasts. (Julian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Fantasy Lover

Source: Fantasy Lover

“There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you.”

Kris Radish (1953) American novelist

Source: The Shortest Distance Between Two Women

Sun, Joy, Happiness

“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”

James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)

Speech, Constitutional Convention (29 June 1787), from Max Farrand's Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, Vol. I http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llfr&fileName=001/llfr001.db&recNum=494&itemLink=D?hlaw:5:./temp/~ammem_kmli::%230010495&linkText=1 (1911), p. 465 <br class="br">1780s <br class="br">Context: In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.

Home

“Al was standing a bare three feet away, his mood almost jovial as he took the paper and it vanished in a wash of black sparkles.

“Thank you, Rachel,” he said, carefully reaching for my hand as Trent stiffened.

“Welcome back, my itchy witch.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: A Perfect Blood

Mood

“The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

Source: The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Beauty, Light, Change, Waiting

“I'm not the first or the last
to stand on a hillock,
watching the man she married
prove to the world
he's a total, utter, absolute, Grade A pillock.”

Carol Ann Duffy book The World's Wife

Source: The World's Wife

World

“It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise”

John Cleese (1939) actor from England

Hope, Despair

“Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins. Ask them about Camilla Lopez, and they will whisper her name.”

John Fante (1909–1983) 1909–1983; American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Italian descent

Source: The Big Hunger

Tree

“I don't do farm animals.
Can't stand hay in your leathers?
Or wool in my teeth.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Unbound

Source: Lover Unbound

Animals

“Magnus shrugged. "He also made inappropriate amorous advances to a startled grandmotherly sort selling flowers, an Irish wolfhound, and innocent hat stand in a dwelling he broke into, and myself.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Midnight Heir

Flowers

“Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.”

Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing

World, Way, Time

“Why wait any longer for the one you love
When he’s standing in front of you”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Love, Waiting

“From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest.
Darkness, you know, is relative.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Mermaid Chair

Source: The Mermaid Chair

Love, Heart

“Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

IV, 20
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV

Love, Truth, Law, Beauty

“Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.”

Elena Ferrante book The Story of a New Name

Source: The Story of a New Name

Pleasure, Happiness

“… That would be like stepping in front of a moving train and saying, 'Hey, honey, come stand next to me.'"
I hopped off the wall and stood next to him. "Anytime."
He just looked at me.
"I've never killed a train before. It might be fun to try.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Rises

Training

“Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.”

Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist

“I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

People, Jerk, Personality

“The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

“We stand in awe before that which cannot be seen. We respect with every fiber of our being that which cannot be explained.”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

“I knew how much it hurt to be the daughter of people who can't see you, not even if you are standing in front of them stomping your feet.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

People, Hurt, Daughters

“I can remember my first one-night stand like it was yesterday. Well, maybe not the first. Or the second… or the fifth. I'll just begin with what I can remember and not concern myself with order.”

Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host

Night

“Well I am still not drunk" I straightened up against the pillows as best I could. "You told me once that if you could still stand up, you weren't drunk."
You aren't standing up." he point out.
You are.”

Diana Gabaldon book Voyager

Source: Voyager

“When I encounter a sunrise, a painting, a woman, or an idea that makes my heart bound like a young calf, then I know I am standing in front of happiness.”

Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) Greek writer

Idea, Heart, Painting, Happiness

“Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that—at the moment—I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

Source: Dead to the World

World, Thinking

“Ed?" Ritchie says later. We're still standing in the water. "There's only one thing I want."
"What's that, Ritchie?"
His answer is simple.
"To want.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Water

“If you want to be seen, stand up.
If you want to be heard, speak up.
If you want to be appreciated, shut up.”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

V.20
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book V
Context: In a sense, people are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them. But when they obstruct our proper tasks, they become irrelevant to us--like sun, wind, and animals. Our actions may be impeded by them, but there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. (Hays translation)

Way