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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about age, olderness, faith, life

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

Quote by William Faulkner about opinion, meetings, help, word, faith, contentment

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about opinion, vulgarity, action, light

Even we, when we look into a mirror we make refer to ourselves, but through the mirror. Does the real us stand in front of the mirror which reflects the unreal us? How else is real Life reflected into the unreal Death? One thing is certain and...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about death, real estate, life, things

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Quote by Mark Twain about laughter, nothing

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne about word, good, good luck

Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

Quote by Stephen Harold Spender about religion, sun

I would rather die standing up, than live life on my knees!

Quote by Emiliano Zapata about attitude, death, life

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in and going after your dreams.

Quote by Madonna about attitude, dream, faith, contentment

Have courage enough to accept what you can not change, but yet courageous enough to stand up and fight for what you can.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about courage, fight, change, contentment

A single man of one, only pebbles can be moved, but many men together, stands no mountain that can't move.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about solitude, man

there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have one. It will not be a pansy heaven or a fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley but it will be a heaven of blackred roses my father will be(deep like a rose tall like a rose) standing...

Quote by Edward Estlin Cummings about haven, garden, eyes, mother, poets, nothing, face

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

Quote by Arthur Miller about children, trap, spirit, contentment, love

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.

Quote by Isaac Newton about opinion

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

Quote by Molière about love, pets, home, house

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

Quote by Charles Montesquieu about opinion, people

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

Quote by Karl Jaspers about philosophy, essential, history

Mirror, mirror, here I stand. Who is the fairest in the land?

Quote by Wilhelm Grimm about literature

My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.

Quote by Hugo Claus about poetry

Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.

Quote by Julie Andrews about humor