Upright Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Upright
Upright Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Upright quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
You don't just magically flip some evolutionary switch somewhere and transmute a quadruped into an upright-walking bipedal human.
— Donald Johanson
No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.
— Lynn Coady
I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Furless now, upright, My banishedand experimental
child
You said, though your own heart condemn you
I do not condemn you. — Franz Wright
Gabe pulled her closer. You just lean on me, Vivi. I'll keep us both upright for a while.
— Leslye Walton
Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living.
— David O. McKay
it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright
— Benjamin Franklin
The upright are richer in deeds than the wealthy are in gold.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
As you keep moving forward, you can stay upright even when outside forces try to pull you down.
— Bonnie L. Oscarson
There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction.
— Spencer W. Kimball
I got 15 trumpets where other women got hips& a upright bass for both sides of my heart — Ntozake Shange
Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.'Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar. — Ally Carter
it was difficult to stay upright. Once rolling, the oxen were as
— Beverley Harper
It is only people who show upright positions in standing for the truth that win at last.
— Sunday Adelaja
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
— Dante Alighieri
I may as well cut my losses and make a hasty exit while I still had enough self-esteem to walk upright. Crawling was so demoralizing
— Darynda Jones
For joy in the LORD, O you righteous ones; Praise is bbecoming to the upright.
— John F. MacArthur Jr.
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
— Aeschylus
Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright, walking, big brained, super intelligent ape.
— Louise Leakey
If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.
— Thomas A Kempis
She wanted to daydream, pretend that her world was upright instead of fallen on its side;
— Kristin Hannah
The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.
— Mary Wilson Little
The vice minister's wife sits so upright that it seems as if her spine is hewn from oak.
— Anthony Doerr
The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.
— Confucius
Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
— Georges Bernanos
Man is not only that creature that forges tools, that reasons, and that walks upright. Man is the creature that looks up. Man praises.
— Anthony Esolen
The oak tree is firm and elegant and upright. The weeping willow has allowed the burdens of life to bend it.
— Panache Desai
Grace makes us inwardly RIGHT so we walk outwardly UPRIGHT
— John Paul Warren
We need to know who we are and then stand strong
— Sunday Adelaja
the upright shall behold his face.
— Anonymous
Upright and do right make all right.
— Christina Baker Kline
The quadriga was led by a young man, who stood upright, holding the bridles of the steeds, while the morning sun was shining behind his head!
— Fabio Marzocca
The asacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
— Anonymous
Tis hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
— Benjamin Franklin
The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.
— Charles Caleb Colton
I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.
— Penn Jillette
Even the false accusations of a person of dubious morality can taint the reputation of an upright servant.
— Hock G. Tjoa
Tragedies of this world behave like the storms of the vast oceans! While you are inside this storm, let your mind stand upright like a lighthouse!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
We speak of moving mountains, but sometimes people can completely rotate the world, just so someone else can land upright on their feet. I
— Krista Ritchie
Like tired dogs they stand there,because they use up all their strength
in remaining upright in one's memory. — Franz Kafka
Standing upright is not a talent because a brainless wooden beam can stand upright too! The important thing is to be flexible!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The man who knows of the universe of spirit walks upright, the materialist hugs the earth.
— Frank Sheed
Laid out upright and end to end, the files the Stasi kept on their countrymen and women would form a line 180 kilometres long.
— Anna Funder
I consider myself to be very correct and proper: an upright citizen.
— Sebastian Horsley
A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it - it keeps him upright.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.
— Kevin Brockmeier
So upright Quakers please both man and God.
— Alexander Pope
If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.
— Christie Watson
To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, fall, sin if you will, but be upright.
— Victor Hugo
We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.
— Carl Sandburg
All upright Germans will be National Socialists, but only the best National Socialists will be party members!
— Adolf Hitler
True strength isn't being able to knock your enemies down, it's being able to hold yourself upright against their blows.
— Toni Sorenson
The few trees still upright were stripped of their branches, lonely flagpoles without a nation to claim them.
— Mike Mullin
He was upright, so was that holding up?
— Daryl Gregory
The crying went on, breath after breath, and seemed to sustain him upright as if he were nailed to it.
— William Golding
She's not the kind of girl you can easily forget," Alex said, before sitting upright again and taking a deep breath. "She's unforgettable.
— Charlie Maclean
She was very busy fighting a full-facial, saltwater cavity wash when two big hands gripped her arms and hauled her upright.
— Jill Shalvis
Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
— Orlando Bloom
A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.
— Lisa Alther
You raise us upright.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Cyprus was a breath away from economic collapse. It was a big battle in which we came out wounded, but upright and determined to make a fresh start.
— Nicos Anastasiades
When the retching stopped, he assisted her to stand upright and backed her into the car
— Sandra Brown
his hands clasped over a huge carved walking-stick, and a big old woman, sitting upright, with a roll of knitting on her embroidered
— Katherine Mansfield
It is a most blessed thing to have no props and no buttresses, but to stand upright on the Rock of Ages, upheld by the Lord alone.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I apologise for my friend's rudeness, he just learned how to to walk upright last year.
— R.L. Mathewson
The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.
— Robert Burns
The greatest victory for man is not that his dreams were fulfilled but it is that to stand upright even when none of his dreams were fulfilled!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
This was a man who moved like the gods were watching: every gesture he made was upright and correct. There was no one else it could be but Hector
— Madeline Miller
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten timesin his life he might not lawfully be hanged. — Michel De Montaigne
I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much.
— Eric Dickerson
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.
— Murray Rothbard
Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.
— John Lydon
To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.
— Isabel Paterson
Not much of a morning person?""Such a useless time of day," she said, dragging herself upright and taking the cup. "Can't sleep. Can't steal. — Victoria Schwab
If you live in a system that is suppressive, you don't walk upright, you always go with your head down.
— Stefan Heym
