Stood Up Quotes

You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.

If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.

I've always stood up for country music.

I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

The Chinese people have stood up.

I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.

To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront representation of the world it stood in for or stood up for or stood its ground against.

I'm just about equality, period. It's not like, I'm a woman, women should be in charge! I just want there to be equality for everybody.

But, I don't belong to anyone...but myself.

The Chairman likes you.” “Is that good?” “I never date anyone my cat doesn’t like,” Magnus said easily, and stood up.

I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.

I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.

The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.

Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know.

There's a good deal in Pound's and Eliot's poetry that stood up even though their politics were deplorable. Or Pound's very deplorable, Eliot's kind of deplorable.

It wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.

I have stood up and I have represented my constituents to the best of my abilities, and I'm very proud of that.

The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.