(383 quotes found)
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Winston Churchill
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
Henry David Thoreau
“I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.”
Lord Byron
“You've got a lot of nerve, To say you are my friend, When I was down, you just stood there grinning”
Bob Dylan
“My guilt is all I have left. If I lose it, I have stood for nothing, done nothing, been nothing.”
William Kennedy
“Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?”
Walt Whitman
“In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm”
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
“By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattl'd farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“While they stood, the Mommy said if you ever want to be the first person to board an airplane and if you want to travel with your pet, you can do both, easy. The airlines have to let crazy people carry their animals on their laps. The government says so.This is more important information to live by.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.”
Zora Neale Hurston
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