Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not. – Joseph Butler
Wherever you go at SXSW, there you are standing in line. Or watching other people stand in line. – Kara Swisher
If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future. – Madeleine Albright
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it. – Lyndon B. Johnson
You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can’t have a movie without it. – Jerry Reed
And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside. – Kamisese Mara
I’m one of the culprits who keeps turning stuff around, shaking up original tunes and trying to stand the canon on its ear. But sometimes, you just need to sing the song. – Kurt Elling
If somebody sings a song that I wrote, I feel like it’s a nice point of validation for the song, because it shows that the song is able to stand on its own. I like that. – Jesse Harris
I go where people are hurting. I stand on the stage, and I make people laugh for an hour and a half. – Katt Williams
It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one’s hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one. – Jerzy Kosinski
We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps their lives to take a stand for the values upon which we have really founded this nation. – Mike Pence
I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet. – Jim Gilmore
The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he’d be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd. – Leonard Maltin
I don’t want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don’t want to be a decrepit old lady. – Lulu
One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis – the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still. – La Monte Young
