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Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness. -- Isaac Barrow
When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper. -- Bobby Moynihan
My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low. -- Alice Meynell
His [Sam Fuller] self-discipline was amazing. No matter what happened, he'd always go out to his Royal Upright typewriter and just keep working on his stories, his "yarns" as he called them. -- Curtis Hanson
Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day. -- Bliss Carman
I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians. -- Judd Apatow
Among us, in our part of the country, those who are upright are different from this. The father conceals the misconduct of the son, and the son conceals the misconduct of the father. Uprightness is to be found in this. -- Confucius
Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows, Assist his friends, forgive his foes; Trust God, and keep his statutes still, Upright and firm, through good and ill; Thankful for all that God has given, Fixing his firmest hopes on heaven; Knowing that earthly joys decay, But hoping through the darkest day. -- Charlotte Bronte
A man should be upright, not be kept upright. -- Marcus Aurelius
I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart. -- Peter Stuyvesant
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! -- Dante Alighieri
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. -- James Russell Lowell
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. -- Thomas Carlyle
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune. -- Aeschylus
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. -- Aesop
The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time. -- Mary Wilson Little
When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave. -- Orison Swett Marden
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune? -- Elias Canetti
Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body. -- Nhat Hanh
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
Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing. -- Chanakya
I play the piano. I bought an upright piano that is actually electric, so I can practice my scales with headphones on and not make my neighbours' lives hell! -- Eva Green
I think penguins are the most human of all the birds, which may be why people love them. They're cute, they stand upright and they look like they're wearing tuxedos. -- Shia LaBeouf
So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools. -- Giacomo Casanova
At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time. -- Bo Burnham
I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright. -- E. B. White
A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again. -- Pam Brown
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish. -- Alfred Adler
Are two eyes, four appendages and an upright posture really essential for any creature that can ace the galactic SAT's? Maybe not. In fact, I'd venture that any aliens we ever detect or (less likely) encounter will look quite different than this self-referential stereotype. -- Seth Shostak
Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty. -- George Will
What's changed is we now have good anatomical, geological, archaeological evidence that Neanderthals are not our ancestors. When I wrote 'Lucy,' I considered Neanderthals ancestors of modern humans. We have gone back twice the age of Lucy, six million years. And we see that upright bipedal walking goes back that far in time. -- Donald Johanson
Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum. -- Ban Ki-moon
I know how important it is to have your quarterback standing upright. Matter of fact, I know how important it is not to allow someone hit on him period because I want him to think that this pocket is completely safe, no one is going to get to me and I got all the time in the world to make whatever decisions I need to make. -- Emmitt Smith
So upright Quakers please both man and God. -- Alexander Pope
Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living. -- David O. McKay
Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand. -- Benny Hill
Grace makes us inwardly RIGHT so we walk outwardly UPRIGHT -- John Paul Warren
The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks. -- Confucius
We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong. -- Carl Sandburg
It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. -- Benjamin Franklin
Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright. -- Charles Spurgeon
The sky leans on me, me, the one upright among all horizontals. -- Sylvia Plath
If you want to support others you have to stay upright yourself. -- Peter HÃ¸eg
He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin. -- Horace
No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false. -- Alexander Hamilton
There is only one po- sition for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright. -- Dylan Thomas
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What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture. -- Erich Fromm
May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young. -- Bob Dylan
I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not. -- Charles Caleb Colton
We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation. -- Lily Tomlin
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
More people have been ruined by their upright friends than ever have been by their enemies! -- Leslie Ford
If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak. -- Lawrence Block
Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept. -- John Lydon
If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked. -- Christie Watson
God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars. -- Ovid
There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. -- Xun Zi
All upright Germans will be National Socialists, but only the best National Socialists will be party members! -- Adolf Hitler
To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man. -- Kenzaburo Oe
You don't just magically flip some evolutionary switch somewhere and transmute a quadruped into an upright-walking bipedal human. -- Donald Johanson
As you keep moving forward, you can stay upright even when outside forces try to pull you down. -- Bonnie L. Oscarson
The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous. -- Confucius
Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory. -- Franz Kafka
Be firm and upright upon the commands of Allah, work to His obedience and keep away from His disobedience. -- Hasan of Basra
It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top. -- Deborah Bull
Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright. -- Georges Bernanos
If you live in a system that is suppressive, you don't walk upright, you always go with your head down. -- Stefan Heym
Set your face for religion being upright, the nature made by Allah in which He has created the human being. -- Louis Farrakhan
Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homohabili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we arethe only surviving species. -- Joe Quirk
Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is 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
Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar. -- Ally Carter
It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval. -- Thomas S. Monson
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright. -- Murray Rothbard
Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright, walking, big brained, super intelligent ape. -- Louise Leakey
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
There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction. -- Spencer W. Kimball
It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order. -- Sun Tzu
I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second. -- Kevin Brockmeier
The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives. -- William Wordsworth
Superman tends to stand very upright, and he's very symmetrical, and those are actually the most difficult poses for me to draw. -- Jim Lee
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
Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there. -- Isabel Paterson
Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright. -- Baruch Spinoza
Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads. -- Ayn Rand
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged. -- Michel de Montaigne
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
Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright. -- Philemon
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
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
By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament. -- Benjamin Franklin
Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements. -- Mariella Frostrup
I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound. -- Jaco Pastorius
I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias. [Ger., Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen; unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.] -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare. -- Voltaire
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
Raphael snapped, "This isn't funny." "That's why no one's laughing." Jace stood, hauling Raphael upright, jamming the tip of his knife between Raphael's shoulder blades. -- Cassandra Clare
Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers. -- Jimmy Griffin
They have so fundamentally flawed techniques it's ridiculous. They shoot the ball flat. They all stand upright, there's just so many things they do incorrectly. -- Rick Barry
I believe in Providence and I believe Providence to be just. Therefore I believe that Providence always rewards the strong, the industrious, and the upright. -- Adolf Hitler
Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel. -- Alan Hirsch
Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine? -- John Milton
I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country -- Joseph Addison
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
They call it 'falling in love' because it's less like stepping and more like tripping. Tripping is the part where you're still trying to remain upright -- Tammara Webber
My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me. -- Dan Auerbach
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
St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families. -- Pope John Paul II
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior. -- William Shenstone
I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright. -- Joanna Newsom
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment? -- Djuna Barnes
We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man. -- Richard Leakey
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
The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness. -- Michel de Montaigne
Yeah, she shows signs of life if you do this," said Ron, and with his tongue he made soft clip-flopping noises. Umbridge sat bolt upright, looking wildly around. -- J. K. Rowling
Upnext is your successbut before that, remember up there is your God who requires from you to be upright to fulfill your destiny! Be up and keep going! -- Israelmore Ayivor

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