Hong Kong people stand in the front line to confront authoritarian suppression.
Now, we love our auto industry. But if we had worked harder on diversifying this economy long ago, then if one of the legs of the stool starts to get wobbly, at least you've got three other legs to stand on.
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.
I can't stand bad breath.
I still stand behind the stuff I did early on, but I was on a record label, and I didn't have a lot of creative control. Another side of that is just being young and having bad taste. There was plenty of that, too.
Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
When I was at school, I used to stay on a balcony singing and people would stand around listening.
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.
In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.
I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.
Our investments in social justice and basic needs are as vital to our future as fiscal and macroeconomic reforms. A nation deeply divided will not stand. And it certainly will not move forward.
A lot of times I blend in a little bit easier because I'm not like a basketball player who's going to stand out because of his height.
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
