(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
“You've got a lot of nerve, To say you are my friend, When I was down, you just stood there grinning”
Bob Dylan
“I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.”
Lord Byron
“In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm”
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
“My guilt is all I have left. If I lose it, I have stood for nothing, done nothing, been nothing.”
William Kennedy
“Last of all Hurin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it is sung that the axe smoked in the black blood of the troll-guard of Gothmog until it withered, and each time that he slew Hurin cried 'Aure entuluva!”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“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
“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
