Stand

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!

I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.

It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way.

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

To make a career as an Irish actor, generally it's the case that you move to London. When you make that move, you do tend to stand out.

Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.

You could be a victim, you could be a hero, you could be a villain, or you could be a fugitive. But you could not just stand by. If you were in Europe between 1933 and 1945, you had to be something.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.

The more the relationships of the nitrogen-rich substances to the cell nucleus were recognized, the more the question of the arrangement of the nitrogen and carbon atoms in the molecule came to stand out.

We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand.

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

You gotta do what you gotta do. And I had to figure that out, and I used to - I couldn't stand the media, but I realized they have a job. They gotta do what they have to do.

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically, even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.

It's not easy for most girls to stand in next-to-nothing and listen to photographers and stylists commenting on how they look.

I actually cannot stand a room without a view - I would rather have a bedroom the size of a closet with a view over a suite without one.

I'm not a fighter. If there's something going on that I really feel strongly about, I'll certainly stand up but I pick my battles.

If you're going to be a model, what's going to get you the job on a go-see and makes you stand out, it might not be your lipstick or your portfolio or what you're wearing, it might come from your core being.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.

It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.

If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound, I don' think it's gotten there yet.

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.

If we look at where relations between the Soviet Union and Germany were in 1945 and where we stand now, then we have achieved so much.

Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible.

So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

I was neither good in sports nor at studies, but I always wanted to stand out and be noticed.

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.'

Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.

You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it, you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.

The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.

When I hear the bagpipes, it makes the hairs on my neck stand on end. It always makes me weep.

I've been known to spend an afternoon on ASOS.com. There's just so much on there, and I can't stand not seeing all the new arrivals just in case I miss out.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.

I won't do anything demeaning to what I stand for.

If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow, but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors.

I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women.

I did not want to be a source of diversion from the Mondale-Ferraro ticket. It appears no matter what I did or tried to do, that would not be the case. I came to the conclusion that it was in the best interest of all to stand aside.

When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.

I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.

The fact is that I made a stand a number of times in my career, and I did it because I knew I was right.

I just can't stand being in airports anymore. I just can't stand it.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.

Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.

I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

I like to stand out in the crowd. So anytime a designer offers up items that are a little attention grabbing or pushing the boundaries ever so slightly, I'm always game for that.

Hey, man, I toss a stick for a living. Gotta spice up that deal, y'know. Gotta stand out.

Barkley was the first of many American skyjackers whose primary interest was money, by 1972, the majority of the nation's hijackings would involve demands for ransom. Barkley himself was declared incompetent to stand trial in November 1971, at which point he was committed to a psychiatric hospital in Georgia.

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

It's such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, 'Action!' It's like being a little mini-god.

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.

I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.

Victoria's Secret is really about celebrating women and what they stand for: the strength.

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

I can't stand Anne Tyler books, but I gobble them up. It's like Updike - I can't stand him either, but I read everything he writes.

It's not whether you fall or make a mistake, it's what you do when you fall. And I say you stand up. You keep standing up. It's not how many times you fall, it's how many times you stand up.

I think I'm plain. I'm normal. I'm plain. I try not to stand out. I don't wear colors.

The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton.

I would like to be a gang leader on 'Sons of Anarchy' or own a lemonade stand on 'Boardwalk Empire.'

I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.

Every tub must stand upon its bottom.

In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet.

Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand still for a moment.

That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

I can't stand Bob Dylan.

Every designer has to stand behind and believe in what they are creating.

I cannot be Mary Hart - or even worse, Samantha Harris - and stand there with my hip out talking about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes taking Suri to an art museum without making fun of it.

I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own.

My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship, but we both stand by our opinions.

I can't stand the club scene. It's all about impressing people.

I can't stand the club scene.

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.

I like to stand out and make a statement.

The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

I'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.

We talk about toughness as a quarterback: it's not sometimes the physical part that you see, it's the mental toughness and the 'I'm going to stand in here, take this shot,' and 'I'm going to deliver it to my guy.'

If we do our job right, then we have everything to stand on. If we don't do our job, we have everything to lose on.

I just find 'Scooby-Doo' unwatchable. I can't stand it. I like all those other Hanna-Barbera shows about a thousand times more than 'Scooby-Doo.'

You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm, it can turn your head to mush.

If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.

We partner with movies that stand for more than the latest bestseller.

I lived across the street from Noodle Bar. I could barely stand it, because you're there all the time, you can't get away.

This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.

Stand outside De Eland, on the Berenstraat Bridge over the Prinsengracht, and you see what real Amsterdam life is like.

If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.

You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.

Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you.

I'm going to stand up for what I need to do, not what everybody else wants me to do.

I used to live above Manganaro's, when old Times Square was still peaking, and it still had a lot of diners and theaters on the forty deuce, as they used to call it. It was full of character. And it wasn't Disneyland. Now it's so touristy and full of bright lights, I can't stand it. It's like going to a big mall.

It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldn't stand the theater geeks!

If some guys couldn't stand the heat, then they didn't belong in the major leagues. I don't know anybody who refused the World Series checks I helped them get.

You put on the military outfit, and it definitely tightens everything up and makes you stand up straighter.

Love always had my number. I could never patch a breakup together with whiskey and a one-night stand. I took them real hard.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

In my photography, I always lean towards the underprivileged because that's where I came from. When I went to the wars, I attempted to go and stand by those who were being trodden on. By that, I mean people like the Palestinians. When I go to India, I see really the poorest people, and I tend to be drawn to them.

Any girl can look glamorous... just stand there and look stupid.

I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.

I went into umpiring at age 16. I got into officiating because of the fact that I could not stand the referees that worked our basketball games.

It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter.

This music isn't Top 40, we really stand out from anyone.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.

If fruit juices or sugar solutions are left to stand in the open air, they show after a few days the processes which are covered by the name of fermentation phenomena.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.

Red carpets are awful. They're like a kind of purgatory - you stand there, and there are cameras flashing everywhere. One of my first red carpets was in Cannes for 'The Great Gatsby,' and I'd never seen anything like it.

If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.

It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

I loathe celebrity. I can't stand it.

I've always been brought up to stand on my own two feet and not rely too heavily on everyone else around me.

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

I can't stand making records.

A lot of scarves are made to stand out and therefore not appropriate on your head, say, at work.

I couldn't stand seeing myself on the screen.

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.

I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.

Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty, in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.

The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.

Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

I tried to be a house painter, but I couldn't stand all that paint all over me.

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

He imitated me so well that I couldn't stand myself any longer.

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

Relatives cannot help you in the studios. You stand or fall by your own efforts.

I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.

Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop, it stands with the 'disposable' so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.

I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.

What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something?

Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany.

I say what I think, and I stand behind what I say.

'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.

One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

I stand for strict economy in governmental affairs.

I can't stand John McCain.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

You stand still, somebody might get close to you. I don't stand still much anymore.

See, New York is over the hill. It's swallowed up in its own garbage. And the people - I can't stand the people.

I can't stand jelly shoes. They're ugly and not comfortable.

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.

Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.

Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance.

I can't stand whining.

Let's continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.

I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written, I don't have a problem with that.

My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.

We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

I used to stand in front of the mic and cry.

The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.

I want you all to stand, will you do that for me, please?

We unavoidably stand in so many unholy places and are subjected to so much that is vulgar, profane, and destructive of the Spirit of the Lord that I encourage our Saints all over the world, wherever possible, to strive to stand more often in holy places.

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.