The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.
In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom.
He stands up for himself. He's a fighter. That's who my father is.
In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
The ANC, we believe, stands at the head of the whole liberation front, the whole Mass Democratic Movement.
You can wave your signs in protest against America taking stands. The stands America's taken are the reason that you can.
BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards?
Hee stands not surely, that never slips.
ECW stands for Extremely Crappy Wrestling.
The well dressed man never stands out in a crowd; his elegance sets him apart.
No one stands taller in the climb to success than when he bends over to help up someone else.
Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.
So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands here with instruments and talks to the strange creatures in the audience. What a wonderful world!
Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.
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.