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The Stand QUOTES

The Stand QUOTES

1 " The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet. "

― Stephen King , The Stand

2 " The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen "

― Stephen King , The Stand

3 " That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery. "

― Stephen King , The Stand

4 " There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you. "

― Stephen King , The Stand

5 " It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you. "

― Stephen King , The Stand

6 " She was satisfied with the answer God had given Moses from the burning bush when Moses had seen fit to question. Who are you? Mose asks, and God comes back from that bush just as pert as you like: I Am, Who I AM. In other words, Mose, stop beatin around this here bush and get your old ass in gear. "

― Stephen King , The Stand

7 " Help us to be true, Lord. Help us to stand. "

― Stephen King , The Stand

8 " Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God. "

― Stephen King , The Stand

9 " Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it. "

― Stephen King , The Stand

10 " She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship. "

― Stephen King , The Stand

11 " Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear "

― Stephen King , The Stand

12 " Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark. "

― Stephen King , The Stand

13 " And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside. "

― Stephen King , The Stand

14 " Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered . . . or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikely to fall in love with power. "

― Stephen King , The Stand

15 " No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

Or you don't. "

― Stephen King , The Stand

16 " Shall I tell you what sociology teaches us about the human race? I’ll give it to you in a nutshell. Show me a man or woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give me three and they’ll invent the charming thing we call “society”. Give me four and they’ll build a pyramid. Give me five and they’ll make one an outcast. Give me six and they’ll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they’ll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home. "

― Stephen King , The Stand

17 " You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar. "

― Stephen King , The Stand

18 " A man who loves money is a bastard, someone to be hated. A man who can't take care of it is a fool. You don't hate him, but you got to pity him. "

― Stephen King , The Stand

19 " Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy of their bodies. They were smaller. They tended to be weaker. A man couldn't get with child, but a woman could---every four-year-old knows it. And a pregnant woman is a vulnerable human being. Civilization had provided an umbrella of sanity that both sexes could stand beneath. "

― Stephen King , The Stand

20 " Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home. "

― Stephen King , The Stand