The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we - in a less final, less heroic way - be willing to give of ourselves.
The past stands in the path of the future, knowing it will be crushed.
Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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?
You can wave your signs in protest against America taking stands. The stands America's taken are the reason that you can.
To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well as Richard Wagner.
To some people a tree is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green thing that stands in the way.
In the process of making anything, a person moves beyond personal expression to make something that stands by itself. The work acquires its own internal validity, its own integrity.
The republic stands for truth and honour. For all that is noblest in our race. By truth and honour, principle and sacrifice alone will Ireland be free.
The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.
The city is the image of the soul, the surrounding walls being the frontier between the outward and inward life. The gates are the faculties or senses connecting the life of the soul with the outward world. Living springs of water rise within it. And in the centre, where beats the heart, stands the holy sanctuary.
There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being.
Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.
The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in carrying it out.
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
Writingis an art; and artistsare human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is
Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands.
Solitude stands by the window She turns her head as I walk in the room I can see by her eyes she's been waiting Standing in the slant of the late afternoon
Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.