“ 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. ”
- Beryl Bainbridge- Copy
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“ September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for. ”
- Lamar Alexander- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Meister Eckhart- Copy
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“ Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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“ If you think the United States has stood still, who built The largest shopping center in the world? ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
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“ If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs. ”
- Mary McLeod Bethune- Copy
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“ If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
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“ Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy. ”
- Charles Turner- Copy
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“ If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair, I would not lose hope of mercy, because I would trust in You, my God. ”
- Gemma Galgani- Copy
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“ A round ball of a man with protruding lower lip and seal-colored eyes, he spun like a top from continent to continent, jabbing a pudgy forefinger at everything that stood in his way. ”
- Ted Morgan- Copy
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“ The Erie Railroad control was always nominally for sale, and, as the annual election approached, a majority of stockholders stood ready to sell their votes to the highest bidder. ”
- John Moody- Copy
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“ If you're a creationist, you can look at it this way: When Eve offered Adam the apple, he stood up to accept it. ”
- Hugo A. Keim- Copy
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“ I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference. ”
- Lou Gehrig- Copy
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“ We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East. ”
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge- Copy
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“ When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever. ”
- Neil Gaiman- Copy
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“ In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago. ”
- Christina Rossetti- Copy
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“ Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best. ”
- Joseph Parry- Copy
- 3.4K
“ His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
- 2.7K
“ The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now. ”
- Kenneth Patchen- Copy
- 1.1K
“ How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ If I have been able to see farther than others, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants. ”
- Isaac Newton- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 2.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 1K
“ He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburnt by the glare of life. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
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“ Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
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