What are stands?

Famous quotes containing the word stands:

    We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
    Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)

    With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)