Top 1200 Stood Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it).

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.

For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?

I just stood there staring, because while I've seen a lot of weird things, I hadn't ever seen that.

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] psychologically capable of turning either way.

I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

At the age of eight, I auditioned for 'The Sound of Music' and made it through to the third round, where we all stood in a row like the Von Trapp family and had to sing.

Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

I'd been so heavily influenced by Em, but artists that don't grow out of that don't go anywhere. Ultimately, I came to understand that what Eminem stood for above all else was 'be yourself.'

Women haven't stood together enough because women have been pitted against one another.

And as I stood there in the hallway?alone?trying to understand what had just happened and why, I realized the truth: I wasn't worth an explanation?not even a reaction. Not in your eyes.

Over the years, over the history of our country, liberals have stood on many of the right sides of the issues.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Man, I didn't think I stood a chance. I mean, she was way out of my league.she still is.

Cornwall, peopled mainly by Celts, but with an infusion of English blood, stands and always has stood apart from the rest of England, much, but in a less degree, as has Wales.

She stood breast-high amid the corn Clasp'd by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had won.

And what can I tell you, my brother, my killer, what can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I'm glad you stood in my way

Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

In my 10th exams, I stood first with 80 percent but instead of picking science for my further studies, I chose arts... just so that I could continue to dance.

I just wanted to make sure that God's hand was upon it, especially for a band that always stood for God's message; that was important.

Don’t judge someone until you’ve stood at his forge and worked with his hammer, eh?

I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?

It was never my fame - it was his fame. I was Clint's girl. I only stood to lose professionally.

How could we [the world] have stood by and let that happen to them? We owe them.

You can't always count on the devices, attitudes, and conceits that stood you in good stead in 1972 or 1973, or 1978-79, to still have the same impact all these years later.

I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

In Nigeria, if you say you're a singer, people say, 'So what? Everyone sings.' In Germany, my voice stood out more.

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart.

The people who influence us are those who have stood unconsciously for the right thing. They are like the stars and the lilies, and the joy of God flows through them all the time.

Democrats have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel since its founding.

I believe that the ideals that America has stood for throughout our history represent the highest ideals of humankind.

I feel like I've been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It's all you want, but it's terrifying.

Everything I stood for, forever, since the beginning of time, has been about seeing people as humans. Not as man, woman, white, Hispanic, any of that stuff.

We who walk the narrow line have stood for free thinking for thousands of years. Let us continue balancing within the world as we try to understand the space between.

You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they can only come to morning through the shadows.

I defy any British actor to deny they've not stood in front of the mirror and said: 'Bond, James Bond.'

Modi Model of Development is more a hype than reality, and the Congress has always stood for inclusive development.

I have a penchant for playing characters that have been victimized repeatedly and still stood their ground and still remained unembittered.

Except wind stands as it never stood It is an ill wind turns none to good.

The foundation upon which Rotary is built is friendship; on no less firm foundation could it have stood.

I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

I was in the ROTC. Of course, ROTC stood for 'Running off to Canada.'

How grateful I am that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has from its beginnings stood strongly against racism in any of its malignant manifestations.

I have stood on the shoulders of giants like Billie Jean King, Hillary Clinton, my mother - people who have really empowered and influenced my life in an incredible way.

My first commercial was an Old Navy commercial where I stood in line in front of a club, and Fran Drescher was in it.

The immoral veto of the United States allowed the Israelis, with impunity, to destroy Lebanon. Right in front of all of us as we stood there watching, a resolution in the council was prevented.

Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea - a New World.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

I was in the ROTC. Of course, ROTC stood for "Running off to Canada."

Of course, there are times when I've stood next to models and felt like an elephant, but I'm adamant about the fact that I'm not a big girl, I just have the natural feminine figure.

I'm grateful to my family, friends and fans, who have supported me and stood by me.

We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.

A teenage girl lay asleep on the sofa, curled up under a red-and-black knitted afghan. She was on her side, with one slender arm cradling a throw cushion nestled under her head. Long wavy blond hair spread across her back and her shoulders like a cape. Even though she was sleeping, Alex could see how pretty she was, with her delicate, almost elfin features. He stood in the doorway, watching the soft rise and fall of her chest.

Don Martin was the one who really stood out. I really always loved his work. He was such a great artist.

When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.