#stand up

A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#empty #fact #feelings #first #like

A lot of people my age think stand up sucks. ↗

— Aziz Ansari

#lot #people #stand #stand up #sucks

And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#being #boring #care #certain #certain things

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either. ↗

— Evan Esar

#analysis #believes #definition #either #figures

I hate being mean. I watch those roasts on Comedy Central and they make the hair on the back of my neck stand up. ↗

— Julie Brown

#being #being mean #central #comedy #comedy central

Because as a youngster I longed to see the Black man free and I longed to see anyone stand up for us. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#because #black #free #i #longed

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#courage #every #fight #his #i

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

— Winston Churchill

#also #down #listen #sit #speak

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#care #change #community #contend #evangelical

I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#ask #been #book #different #different world