Our form of government can no longer be considered an experiment in politics. Crowned with success, it stands forth an example to the world and exhibits the proudest triumph of reason and philosophy.
My sister is raised to know her value and to know that she stands behind no man. You know, when she gets a husband, you stand side by side, equal partnership. You stand behind no one cause you have to lift each other up. You can't do that if you're 30 percent of the value in your relationship or the household.
To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of the world, saying no and no again as they parade by in all their allure. And to be a writer is to plunge into the parade and become one of the delirious marchers.
To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
I do not stop repeating it to French Jews... Not only is the National Front not your enemy, but it is without a doubt the best shield to protect you. It stands at your side for the defense of our freedoms of thought and of religion against the only real enemy: Islamist fundamentalism.
Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!
My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.
Entire civilisation stands on submission and obedience of mother.
I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.
We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.
There needs to be an allegiance to the United States and what this country stands for.
I think it is time to call it a day, and watch the game from the stands.
I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.
Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.
If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything for which the United States stands and has always stood is wrong.
The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.
