Top 1200 Stood Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

He stood beside a cottage lone And listened to a lute, One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone, And the nightingale was mute.

I thought I would be governor of Massachusetts. I stood on a pile of my old albums and said, 'I'm the only one with a record to stand on.'

Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for one year or two, but for several hundred years against aggression; that endured spoliations, famines, massacres in endless succession; that was clubbed many times into insensibility, but that each time on returning [to] consciousness took up the fight anew; a small nation that could never be got to accept defeat and has never surrendered her soul?

Christianity is anything but safe. Jesus made clear that trouble and persecution stood in the future for His followers.

Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting.

We can heal. Perhaps we can return to that same place we once stood, when we were both young and innocent.

I effectively stood on the shoulders of a giant to make a little bit of noise myself. I'm a by-product of Muhammad Ali.

For many years now, I have been an outspoken supporter of civil and human rights for gay and lesbian people. Gays and lesbians stood up for civil rights in Montgomery, Selma, in Albany, Ga. and St. Augustine, Fla., and many other campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement. Many of these courageous men and women were fighting for my freedom at a time when they could find few voices for their own, and I salute their contributions.

An hour and seven minutes after walking up. I stood with Noelle outside the Trust's house and prepared to raise my first -- and hopefully only -- demon. Three minutes after that I looked at my demon and burst into laughter. "What?" the demon asked, turning its head 360 degrees to examine itself "What's so Funny?" "Why is the Summoner laughing and crying at the same time? I don't see what's so funny. I'm a demon; where's my respect? Where's the fear and cowering before me?

He had handed his daughter to Caroline Gill and that act had led him here, years later, to this girl in motion of her own, this girl who had decided yes, a brief moment of release in the back of a car, in the room of a silent house, this girl who had stood up later, adjusting her clothes, with now knowledge of how that moment was already shaping her life.

I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.

She had died peacefully, in her sleep, after an evening of listening to all of her favorite Fred Astaire songs, one crackling record after another. Once the last chord of the last piece had died out, she had stood up and opened the French doors to the garden outside, perhaps waiting to breathe in the honeysuckle one more time.

There are tribes, I should say nations, which prior to the AIM movement had only ten or fifteen employees, and now have upwards of 2000. There are educational programs that didn't exist before, there are housing programs, health programs, senior citizen programs, cultural programs and the list goes on. It's all because some people stood up and said sovereignty is our right by treaty and the constitution says treaty law is the supreme law of the land.

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening.

It was lucky that the linesman wasn't stood in front of me as I would have poked him with a stick to make sure he was awake.

They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm would stay aboveground forever. At first, as they stood there, their hands were clenched together. They relaxed slowly until during the walk back home their fingers were laced in as gentle a clasp as that of any two young girlfriends trotting up the road on a summer day wondering what happened to butterflies in the winter.

Killing for pleasure is wrong and should be banned. Fox hunting, stag hunting and hare coursing are moral issues. It is time that we stood up for morality. The commandment Thou shall not kill may be hedged with exceptions.Thou shall not kill for pleasure is not; it is a commandment for the 21st century and it is time that we respected it unambiguously, without prevarication and without procrastination.

Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.

I'm proud that many of Missouri's lawmakers stood strong to protect the lives of the innocent unborn and women's health.

I would say I am an ordinary bowler but one with a really big heart, and that's what has stood me in good stead in all these years.

How was your night?" I asked, my voice carefully neutral as I attempted to break the ice. My spying adventures still hung uncomfortably between us. "Interesting.Yours?" "Not so much." "Homework was brutal,huh?" He was making fun of me. "I didn´t do homework." He had the smile of a fow. "Who did you do?" I was speechless a moment. I stood there with my mouth slightly open. "Was that an innuendo?" "Just curious what my competition is." "Grow upp." His smile stretched. "Loosen up.

As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this.

What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted to fly for the sake of flying. They were Man the Seeker, Man on a Quest. Money was their last thought, their final absent-minded idea. They threw out a lot of old mistaken measurements and figured new ones that stood up when they took off and held the air and steered a course. They proved that "the faster you go the less power you need."

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

I had trouble hanging around [Shelley Long] until we stood onstage together, and then I was in heaven.

I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood before. My heart has left it dwelling place ... and can return no more.

I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

There was the Missile Crisis, but one can't attribute to the [J.F.] Kennedy years anything like the problems that [Franklin] Roosevelt stood over and surmounted.

I was one of three kids of colour in our school. There was a young black brother and sister, and me. So we stood out.

I've only done a handful of things in my life that have stood out. The rest is just broth: mistakes and boredom.

Phury knelt beside him and stroked his face. "I've only ever had you to live for. If you die I have nothing. I'm utterly lost. And you are needed here." Zsadist tried to reach out, but couldn't lift his arms as Phury stood up. "God, Z, I keep thinking this tragedy of ours is going to be over. But it just keeps going, doesn't it?" Zsadist blacked out to the sound of his twin's boots heading from the room.

Frankly my parents didn't like him. They objected to the things he stood for. Besides, daddy and Hef are the same age.

Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact.

Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice.

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

At the end of the day, one of the most politically active voters in the country, seniors, will know who stood with them and who didn't.

America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.

After we have calmly stood by and allowed monopolies to grow fat, we should not be asked to make them bloated.

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

Sometimes, I stood at the front of the E train, watching the tunnel ahead, imagining what Anthem would look like on stage.

Bearing sham and scoffing rude, in my place condemned He stood - Sealed my pardon with His blood: Hallelujah, what a Savior!

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather.

Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.

In the early days of jazz, it was ensemble music: everybody playing all together. Nobody really stood out.

We knew they were going to be coming at us. I think they got their first two goals by getting underneath us in the crease. The first two goals really picked them up. Dom (Lamolinara) just stood on his head when we needed him with that doorstop save and the last pass with four seconds left. Defensively we're just jelling and we've just got to keep moving.

I've stood outside my house in Montana looking at the northern lights... crackling against the night sky. To me, that's magic.

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.

When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.

On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for lightning to strike. Who was I, vowing calmly among all these necktied young men to steal life out of nature's jaws, every old time we got half a chance and a paycheck?... I could not accept the contract: that every child born human upon this earth comes with a guarantee of perfect health and old age clutched in its small fist.

I've always stood on my own two. I don't need a team. I don't do the entourage thing, 30 people. I don't do that. That's just not me.

The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.

I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood.

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.

Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.