Quotes of Vertical - somelinesforyou

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

- Bible

“ To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. ”

- George Santayana

“ Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous. ”

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“ We want to extend our adolescence as long as we can. ”

- Amy Poehler

“ A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it — it keeps him upright. ”

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune. ”

- Aeschylus

“ Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright. ”

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“ There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life — about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them. ”

- Parker J. Palmer

“ A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ His hair stood upright like porcupine quills. ”

- Giovanni Boccaccio

“ One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself. ”

- Mark Twain

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Aesop

“ We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation. ”

- Lily Tomlin

“ Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere. ”

- Penelope Gilliatt

“ Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: earthquake. ”

- Jean Baudrillard

“ But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? / I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn. ”

- Bible
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