Know Where You Stand

Innocent stand-byer - Archie Bunker

Here I stand. I can do no other! - Martin Luther

Fall seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese Proverb

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

A good photograph is knowing where to stand. - Ansel Adams

No one ever built a legacy by standing still. - Ravi Zacharias

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. - Alexander Hamilton

No man can stand on top because he is put there. - H.H. Vreeland

Stand up and face your fears, or they will defeat you. - LL Cool J

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination. - Emily Dickinson

I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. - James Duval

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. - Irvin S. Cobb

Sooner or later, even the fastest runners have to stand and fight. - Stephen King

Someone has to stand up and speak for the freedoms of the little guy. - Christopher Monckton

Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. - Bible

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

A standing army is one of the greatest mischiefs that can possibly happen. - James Madison

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - John Dewey

No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty. - Ulysses S Grant

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

If we tried to sink the past beneath our feet, be sure the future would not stand it. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

One day my mortal body will turn to dust, but the Turkish Republic will stand forever. - Mustafa Kemel Ataturk

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood. - Russell Peters

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill

I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. - Bernard Berenson

I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up. - Steven Wright

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. - J K Rowling

Relics: People who have been going to Mass for so long, they actually know when to sit, kneel, and stand. - Unknown

Being President is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but stand there and take it. - Lyndon Johnson

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. - Arthur C. Clarke

Moving forward implies motion when in all actuality it may be simply standing still and seeing the salvation of the Lord. - John Paul Warren

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called 'licking the earth.' - Malcolm Muggeridge

Dream big - dream very big. Word hard - work very hard. And after you've done all you can, you stand, wait, and fully surrender. - Oprah Winfrey

If a woman says, 'Do what you want', do not do what you want. Stand still. Do not blink. Don't even breathe. Just play dead. - Unknown

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't imagine what it might be. - Joyce Carol Oates

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow. - Tim O'Brien