Quotations
Quotes:
Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
View quotes by John Milton
The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.
View quotes by Michael Armstrong
I saw Baby Spice and insisted on talking to her. I tapped her on the shoulder and stood there like a lemon. I wanted to tell her how brilliant she was. Instead I said something like, 'Great woman!' It wasn't my finest moment.
View quotes by Daisy Donovan
The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.
View quotes by Clement Attlee
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.
View quotes by Richard Bach
He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'
View quotes by Terry Pratchett
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
View quotes by Kahlil Gibran
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck
Shone round him o'er the dead. [Casablanca]
View quotes by Felicia Hemans
We have stood alone in that which is called isolation - our splendid isolation, as one of our colonial friends was good enough to call it.
View quotes by Lord George Goschen
The wildest thing I ever did was, one night at a Thai restaurant in Paris, I got wasted and stood up on a table full of food and sang ‘I Will Survive.’ It was during a modeling industry dinner, so all the bigwigs from my agency were there with a bunch of clients. I know it was inappropriate, but it probably helped my career!
View quotes by Charlotte Dodds
What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.
View quotes by John Gunther
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.
View quotes by Walt Whitman
I was proud that the players stood shoulder to shoulder with me.
View quotes by Berti Vogts
The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.
View quotes by Ty Cobb
The world has lost a religious leader who was revered across people of all faiths and none. He was an inspiration, a man of extraordinary faith, dignity and courage.
Throughout a hard and often difficult life, he stood for social justice and on the side of the oppressed, whether as a young man facing the Nazi occupation in Poland or later in challenging the Communist regime.
He never wavered, never flinched, in the struggle for what he thought was good and right.
[on Pope John Paul II]
View quotes by Tony Blair
Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
View quotes by Olusegun Obasanjo
[I thank] my darling Camilla, who has stood with me through thick and thin - and whose precious optimism and humour have seen me through.
View quotes by Prince Charles
I stood there all day with a plastic angel in my pocket. I believe in fate - I'm as silly as a bunch of lights!
View quotes by Harry Redknapp
Two small, sturdy boys stood alone on the empty deck of the Channel steamer
View quotes by Arthur Hamilton Gibbs
Ross Pary stood on the deck of the steamboat Crescent City, staring out over the Mississippi.
View quotes by Frank Yerby
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