Top 1200 Stood Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.

They say the Universe started with a big bang. I hope everybody stood well back.

All I'd ever wanted to do in my life was write and publish books, and woe to anyone who stood in my way.

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over.

I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.

There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness.

Peter stood, cleared his throat, and began to hum softly, then sing, slowly building up the song as his voice cleared. He found the old tune, the song of the Sunbird. And as he sung, as his rich voice echoed off the tall cliffs, the birds and the faeries lent him their voice and soon the tune drifted throughtout the garden.

Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

I've been so incredibly blessed. I've worked with some of the greatest professionals in town. I stood at the Golden Globes.

The merit of 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' then - or its offence, depending where you stood - was not that it was authentic, but that it was credible.

During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.

we, in that instant, lost, breathless to be witnesses, as if we stood ourselves refreshed among the shining fauna of that fire.

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

When I thought about the absolute favourite of favourites or what stood for the best of haute couture, it was Givenchy.

To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs*

You might be a redneck if you've ever stood in line to get your picture taken with a freak of nature.

In 1988, before I'd written a word for a car magazine or stood in front of a camera, I was a subeditor on 'The Engineer.'

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.

She tied her blond hair back with a strip of denim torn from her pants leg, and in the fiery light of the river, her grey eyes flickered. Despite being beat-up, sooty, and dressed like a homeless person, she looked great to Percy. So what if they were in Tartarus? So what if they stood a slim chance of surviving? He was so glad that they were together, he had the ridiculous urge to smile.

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

Until I'm actually stood on the set doing the job, I always keep my options open.

It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth... Everything I have written has stood the test of time.

After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.

She stood lost in eternity wearing a crazy dress, watching the immense sky.

The heavy eyelids snapped open. Jack froze. A huge gold-and-amber eye, as big as a dinner plater, stared at him. The dark pupil shrank, focusing. Jack stood very still. The colossal head turned, the scaled lip only three feet from Jack. The golden eyes gazed at him, wirling with fiery color. Jack breathed in tiny, shallow breaths. Dont blink. Don't blink... Two gusts of wind erutped from the wyvern's nostrils Jack jumped straight up, bounced off the ground into another jump, and scrambled up the nearest tree. In the clearing, Gaston bent over, guffawing like an idiot. 'It's not funny!

I think racism is unacceptable and should not be stood for. It is not an issue just in Italy, it is around the world.

I want you all to stand like the Muslims who stood with La ilaaha ilalla for Truth and Right

I could endure hard times thanks to my fans that stood by me. I decided that I wouldn't disappoint them.

Music documentaries are tricky because of 'Spinal Tap.' That movie has stood the test of time.

I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.

Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.

I am less affected by their heroism who stood up for half an hour in the front line at Buena Vista, than by the steady and cheerful valor of the men who inhabit the snow-plow for their winter quarters; who have not merely the three-o'-clock-in-the-morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest, but whose courage does not go to rest so early, who go to sleep only when the storm sleeps or the sinews of their iron steed are frozen.

eSpeed took the worst that the world could dish out, and it still stood and performed.

Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute. . . .

I think when somebody's out in the public eye, that's what they do. So I'm fully comfortable with who I am, what I stand for, and what I've always stood for.

In the wake of such bad news, it was heartening to know that what 'Sense8' stood for meant so much to so many people.

In times when nothing stood but worsened, or grew strange, there was one constant good: she did not change.

When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.

Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.

Haply a woman's voice may do some good When articles too nicely urged be stood on.

Time never stood still for me. It went too fast; that was the bad thing about it!

I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.

Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command save one has stood with him.

Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in this? I don't know, said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. [...] Ralph shouted. Hear him! He's got the conch! What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us. Nuts! That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum.

Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

You never truly know someone until you've stood in their shoes and walked around in them.

I have devoted my life to serving the people of New Jersey and am forever thankful for all who have stood by me.

When I walked down the ramp and stood in the ring, I made other big guys look small.

Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks, Buddhist monks, Jaina monks, nuns. For centuries they have been teaching celibacy; and the most amazing thing is, even in the twentieth century, not a single medical expert, physiologist, has stood up and said that celibacy is impossible, that in the very nature of things, it cannot happen.

At 18, I stood in the Louvre in front of the paintings that TV had first shown me.

Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

Apple stood for something and had a reason for being that wasn't just about making money.

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

Language has historically stood as a barrier for some voters seeking to participate in the electoral process.

The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.