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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill
Life
Good
You
Enemies
Something
Sometime
Up
Stood
Means
Your
I am closest to my mother, as she is my rock, my pillar of strength, and my world. Not only has she stood by me through all times - happy, sad, and otherwise - but there have even been moments when I had completely lost hope, and her immense belief in me had lifted me up.
Amruta Khanvilkar
Sad
Hope
Strength
Me
Happy
World
Mother
Lost
Otherwise
Immense
Only
Through
Had
Lifted
She
Rock
Am
Pillar
Been
Up
Times
Closest
Stood
Moments
Even
Belief
Her
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe
Dreams
Darkness
Long
Before
Doubting
Dared
Dream
Dreaming
Fearing
Mortal
Wondering
Stood
Deep
Ever
There is nothing I can do to undo what I did. I can only say again how sorry I am to those I let down and then strive to go forward with a greater sense of humility and purpose, and with gratitude to those who stood with me during a very difficult chapter in my life.
David Petraeus
Life
Me
Gratitude
Chapter
My Life
Sorry
Sense
Nothing
Down
Difficult
Humility
Say
Those
Strive
Only
Purpose
Greater
How
Am
Go
Undo
Very
Did
Stood
Again
Then
Who
Forward
Let Down
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
Steven Wright
Birthday
Happy
Remember
Singing
Down
Everyone
Remember When
Around
Shop
Stood
Candle
Burned
Happy Birthday
People can judge me for what I've done. And I think when somebody's out in the public eye, that's what they do. So I'm fully comfortable with who I am, what I stand for, and what I've always stood for.
Hillary Clinton
Me
People
Judge
Somebody
Think
Eye
Out
Judge Me
Comfortable
Always
Am
Done
Stood
Public
Public Eye
Stand
Who
Fully
If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment - and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That's where respect comes from.
Michelle Obama
You
Respect
Trust
Commitment
Try
Word
Made
Important
Become
Leaders
Most
Most Important Thing
Make
Because
Important Thing
Real
Stood
The Most Important
Where
Your
Thing
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Me
Crazy
Drunk
Other
He
Him
Stood
Stand
Grant
Each
Now
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
Walt Whitman
Great
You
Learning
Those
Admired
Only
Tender
Learned
Passage
Were
Stood
Against
Aside
Themselves
Who
Lessons
Disputed
We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
War
Me
Together
Black
Country
Sentiment
White
One Country
About
Color
Through
Wrong
Said
Been
Contradict
Flag
Stood
May
Differ
Which
Persons
Us
Stand
Who
Many
Let Us
Things
Here
Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.
Ratan Tata
Simple
Ethics
Values
Live
Consider
Right Thing
Would
Tried
Could
Fair
Like
Always
Equitable
Leave
Up
Very
Legacy
Stood
Behind
The Right Thing
Which
Apart
To Live By
Right
Thing
He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'
Terry Pratchett
Bastards
He
Armour
Sort
Wet
Person
Gods
Stood
Shouting
Who
Copper
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
Zora Neale Hurston
Harp
Out
Wrapped
Kitchen
Pots
Sorrow
Been
Mountain
Hands
Stood
Then
Sword
Rainbows
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
Quentin Crisp
God
You
Woman
Atheist
People
Believe
Catholics
Audience
Said
Up
Yes
Ireland
Northern
Stood
Northern Ireland
Whom
The Black Panther Party stood up and said that we don't care what anybody says. We don't think fighting fire with fire is best; we think you fight fire with water best.
Fred Hampton
Best
You
Fight
Water
Care
Black
Fire
Party
Fighting
Think
Panther
Says
Said
Up
dont Care
Stood
Anybody
If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
Richard M. Nixon
Leader
Individual
Never
He
Stood
Controversial
Anything
Wants
Means
All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.
John Wayne
Waiting
Down
Back
Bad
Bad Guy
Guy
Drink
Knocked
Feet
Like
Him
Smoke
Gentlemen
Always
Real
His
Fists
Up
Cowboys
Get
Behaved
Hitting
Going
Stood
Screen
Heavy
Decided
Keep
Drag
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
Thomas Jefferson
Truth
Knowledge
Whatever
Every
Way
Follow
Fearing
Results
Pursuit
Never
Led
Authority
Stood
Which
Reason
Bold
Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.
Christopher Columbus
Morning
Meet
Our
Seven
Distant
Anchor
Fearing
Determining
Leagues
Come
Tide
Course
Island
Till
Arrived
Continue
Noon
Off
Stood
Six
Against
Us
Found
Night
I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.
Malala Yousafzai
Girl
Remembered
Up
Stood
Want
Shot
Who
Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
E. Stanley Jones
Life
Character
Christ
Think
Add
Virtue
Ideal
Longer
Supreme
Stood
Human
Human Life
Standard
Code
Hence
Thing
Jesus
Jesus Christ
I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.
Hugh Masekela
People
World
Different Kinds
Ways
Kinds
Only
Fact
Raw
Raw Materials
Over
Massive
Majority
Always
Materials
Stood
Depends
Different
Establishment
Poor
Poor People
Exploited
Exploiting
Across
Things
Two
The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me.
Arto Lindsay
Education
Me
Guitar
Relating
Musical
Way
Out
Guitar Playing
Some
Like
Within
Context
Real
Tradition
Real Education
Were
Lounge
Stood
Being
Different
Being Different
Playing
After 'American Idol,' I got a lot of 'stuck up' rumors that just fueled the never-ending flames of high school drama. Thankfully, my real friends always stood up for me and knew I wasn't like that.
Diana DeGarmo
Me
School
Drama
Rumors
High
High School
Stuck
Knew
Never-Ending
Like
Always
Got
Real
Idol
Real Friends
Lot
Up
Friends
American
Thankfully
Stood
Flames
Just
After
American Idol
Fueled
Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the great moral issues.
James Dobson
Politics
Great
You
People
World
Young
Difficult
Moral
Would
Would-Be
Moral Issues
Pretty
Rather
More
Dirty
Knew
Exciting
Disappointing
Like
Issues
Very
Stood
Often
Where
Little
Much
Really
Dad
I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.
Larry David
War
Army
National
Guard
President
President Bush
Finally
Those
Having
Put
Because
Motives
Questioned
End
National Guard
Up
Stood
Happier
Bush
Height
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Who
Reserve
Served
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