Quotes of Upright - somelinesforyou

“ Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then — we elected them. ”

- Lily Tomlin

“ The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom — they are the pillars of society. ”

- Henry Jacobsen

“ My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues. ”

- Peter Singer

“ To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ A man should be upright, not be kept upright. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ I am myself indifferent honest. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Be prepared and be honest. ”

- John Wooden

“ Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. ”

- Lewis Carroll

“ In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. ”

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“ In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. ”

- Mary McCarthy

“ I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ I want to set things straight,... I know Judge Pickering. I've had extensive conversations with him. He is truly a righteous and decent man. ”

- Orrin Hatch

“ Marriage is honorable in all. ”

- Bible

“ We're just going to make them more honest out here. ”

- Gene Brown

“ Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. ”

- George MacDonald

“ Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous. ”

- Judy Davis

“ To be honest, I don't want No. 1's anymore. Now, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind the odd few, but I'd also like a record going in at eight and staying around. ”

- Robbie Williams

“ If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward. ”

- Theodor W. Adorno

“ You see a moral in them? Do we have morals? ”

- Joel Coen

“ Though I be poor, I'm honest. ”

- Thomas Middleton

“ Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on. ”

- John Lydon Rotten

“ We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books theoretically, at least. ”

- Mark Twain

“ 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

“ The effect of one upright individual is incalculable. ”

- Oscar Arias

“ All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh. ”

- Doris Lessing

“ The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. ”

- Aesop

“ Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright. ”

- Bible

“ Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand. ”

- Benny Hill

“ It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ 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
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