Quotes about stand
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Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: Possible Side Effects
“I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.”
Source: The Hippopotamus Pool
“SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.”
Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
Source: The Man in the High Castle
“The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.”
Source: The Mark of a Man
“When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[? ]”
Source: Heir to the Shadows
Talk is Cheap Volume 1 (1998)
Source: Talk is Cheap: Volume 1
VII, 61
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
“A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.”
1960s, Address on Courage (1965)
Context: Deep down in our nonviolent creed is the conviction that there are some things so dear, some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they’re worth dying for. And if a man happens to be 36 years old, as I happen to be, and some great truth stands before the door of his life, some great opportunity to stand up for that which is right, he’s afraid his home will get burned, or he’s afraid that he will lose his job, or he’s afraid that he will get shot or beat down by state troopers. He may go on and live until he’s 80, but he’s just as dead at 36 as he would be at 80. And the cessation of breathing in his life is merely the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit. He died...
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.
So we're going to stand up right here amid horses. We're going to stand up right here, in Alabama, amid the billy-clubs. We're going to stand up right here in Alabama amid police dogs, if they have them. We're going to stand up amid tear gas! We're going to stand up amid anything they can muster up, letting the world know that we are determined to be free!
Source: Horns
Source: Married By Morning
“… A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.”
Source: The Well of Ascension
I Won't Back Down, written with Jeff Lynne
Lyrics, Full Moon Fever (1989)
Source: Conversations with Tom Petty
“What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!”
Percy had no intention of doing that.”
Source: The Son of Neptune
Magnus Bane, to Clary Fray and Simon Lewis, pg. 61
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
“If we don't stand up for others, who will be left to stand up for us?”
“We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.”
Source: The Drawing of the Three
Source: Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”
Strength to Love, p. 25
1960s, Strength to Love (1963)
Context: The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige and even his life for the welfare of others.
Source: This Child's Gonna Live
1960s, (1963)
Source: I Have A Dream
Source: The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934: Vol. 1
“What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.”
Source: Drowning Instinct
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
“Freely we serve
Because we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall.”
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
1960s, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)
Context: We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. The tide in the affairs of men does not remain at flood — it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is adamant to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, "Too late."
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Positively 4th Street
Source: Lyrics, 1962-1985
“There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.”
Variant: Mr.Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.
Variant: You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in, risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. And if you can't play, you can't win.
Source: Paradise
Source: Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ
1960s, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)
Context: Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change. … Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly. You see, what happened is that some of our philosophers got off base. And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites — polar opposites — so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love.
It was this misinterpretation that caused Nietzsche, who was a philosopher of the will to power, to reject the Christian concept of love. It was this same misinterpretation which induced Christian theologians to reject the Nietzschean philosophy of the will to power in the name of the Christian idea of love. Now, we've got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. And this is what we must see as we move on. What has happened is that we have had it wrong and confused in our own country, and this has led Negro Americans in the past to seek their goals through power devoid of love and conscience.
This is leading a few extremists today to advocate for Negroes the same destructive and conscienceless power that they have justly abhorred in whites. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.