"A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
"The devil's happy when the critics run you off."
- Criss Jami
"Kate faced the crowd. They were just eyes and teeth to her, just spit and voices. It was a moment, even, before they became people: a man with one blind eye, another whose neck was thick with lumps an..."
- Erin Bow
"I want to stand on the truth that God has designed us to stand, and that the opportunity to stand is the opportunity to live exuberantly and gloriously."
- Craig D. Lounsbrough
"When you choose your life, ignore people, when you make it in life, remember some friends, when you sing a song, praise your source, when predicaments arises, stand your ground."
"I prefer men who don't fall down and weep, who absorb a blow, who do not scamper and yell when chased, but stand firm, crouch, square off, meet an attack with something like resistance, even if it kil..."
- Ben Marcus
"If not me then who? Confront evil!"
- Ken Poirot
"You just stood up to your mother.... I should think now you could take on the world."
- Elizabeth Strout
"I have come to learn, that when people of money and power organize to set upon to break a person they seek to silence, and the person seems but a shadow of what they were, under the endless barrage, i..."
- Tom Althouse
"I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running."
- Marie Lu