Top 1200 Where You Stand Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

When you’re young, whatever you do that makes you stand out is a frightening thing. You learn later that that’s what you want to do, stand out.

It's my job, with the position of power that I'm in and being able to be on television, I'm supposed to stand up for the people who can't stand up for themselves.

I'm sure some of the characters in 'X-Men' had a lot of physically demanding stuff to do, but my character's pretty much stand-and-deliver, stand there and throw fire at people. There's no acrobatics or anything.

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

I worked for promoters that I couldn't stand and they couldn't stand me. But they knew if they put my name out there, I would sell out for them.

I loved working in stand-up, and I always dreamed that I could make a movie about it. I didn't know if I would have the courage to, because if you make a bad movie about stand-up, then comedians will mock you for the rest of your life. They're still mad about movies made 25 years ago. But it was always a dream of mine, and I was glad I finally came up with an idea that allowed me to explore it in such a way that it's not all about stand-up, but stand-up creates a great backdrop for another type of story.

It's very rare that stand-up comics have kids, because once they do, they stop doing stand-up.

Yeah, I mean, I did regular stand-up for a long time. And I did - I stopped doing stand-up when I worked on 'Ellen,' which was for five years. So when I went back to it, I found that, like, regular stand-up didn't really do it for me anymore. It almost felt insincere, like I wasn't saying anything I actually really wanted to say.

We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.

The one thing the media abhors almost without exception is anyone who takes a firm stand on any issue out of religious principle, unless their stand happens to coincide with their expressed views.

I stand in the way of no one's ambition. I only ask that no one stand in the way of the people's well being and the nation's progress.

I think the Davis Cup has some untapped potential. It should be as prominent as the Grand Slams when it takes place. If you put it together with Fed Cup for an organized, nationalistic team competition taking place in a central location for two weeks, I think that would be beneficial from a fan interest stand point, from a media stand point and from a television stand point.

Folks differs, dearie. They differs a lot. Some can stand things that others can't. There's never no way of knowin' how much they can stand.

?It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.

Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

I can't stand that - those women in 'Waiting to Exhale' now. I can't stand them. But that's because I'm 53 and not 33. But what they were experiencing at 33, I identified with it.

If you don't stand for something, you stand for nothing.

I don't know, I find that honestly, the stand-up thing in some ways is a little bit of a cliche to carry around, because people don't consider stand-ups really actors.

I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.

When you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.

As women, we must stand up for ourselves. We must stand up for each other. We must stand up for justice for all.

I love the Holy Spirit. I can't stand to see it being disrespected. It's been there for me at times when I really needed it. Therefore, I have a duty to stand for it is how I feel.

The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down. We know they have fallen before.

When you just stand for something, you kind of stand for it.

Don't look for an unshakable rock to stand on; there ain't any! Rather, learn how to stand still on a shaking rock!

It's important to stand up to all forms of bullying, and it's even more important for those who are around you to be just as courageous and stand with you!

In general, I can't stand people who always turn a conversation into something about them. I can't stand it when people are too into themselves.

If you stand on the Word, you do not stand with the world.

I said that we stand for strong relations with India, we stand for peaceful resolution of all our problems with India, including Kashmir.

Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us.

As sportspeople, we have a power we don't even know. If we get together and talk, things change. If we stand up, people stand up with us.

For writing stand-up, I have to have a little bit of anger and frustration to be motivated to do it. Stand-up, for me, comes from kind of a hostile engine.

Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. If we stand for real, living, breathing people, we will change the world.

I can't stand stupid, and I can't stand slow.

We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.

We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

I always get a little bit pissed off when stand-up comedy is not recognised as being as good a craft as being an actor. We give Oscars to people and it's like, 'Aw, this person is the greatest person on earth', but being an actor is pretty easy in comparison to stand-up comedy. It's no surprise that several stand-up comics have gone on to become great actors. I don't know any great actors that have gone on to become great stand-up comics.

My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

I can't stand lying. I can't stand liars.

We stand for musical individuality. That's all we stand for.

Millions of people are provided with their thoughts as with their clothes; authors, printers, booksellers, and newsmen stand, in relation to their minds, simply as shoemakers and tailors stand to their bodies.

Stand-ups are always good to see on YouTube. There's a guy named Mike Head who lives in Cleveland. He's great. He's an African-American stand-up.

As an actor, you never really set out to be a stand-out character. You just want to do justice to the story and enjoy playing it, and find all the different nooks and crannies of who someone is. For each part that you get, they're all special and you just try to give everything you can to each one. I don't know whether they're going to be stand out in that way or not factors into my work. They all stand out for me.

There are no circumstances in your life where God will not stand will not stand with you and help you, no matter what the trouble may be.

When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we see. No, I won't be afraid, no, I won't be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me.

I stand by the Constitution and I stand by the Second Amendment and it's something that I take pride in. It's something that I'll back up.

In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists, that there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.

Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?

The president is supposed to stand up for the First Amendment and stand up for the free press - not put us through the meat grinder.

I think, in a way, the stand-up prepped me for the improv, because I do a lot of riffing in my stand-up.

A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.

Stand-up is cool. In stand-up, you get to learn about yourself if you do it from a thoughtful place.

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

I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.

Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.