Top 1200 Upright Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.

I get roles where I'm the activist type or I'm always morally upright.

Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

When I am back home, I have an upright piano and I play constantly.

If you are an upright journalist, nothing will happen to you.

It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.

As you keep moving forward, you can stay upright even when outside forces try to pull you down.

If you live in a system that is suppressive, you don't walk upright, you always go with your head down.

I knew I wanted to be an actor for a long time, but I was based out of Chicago and then I went to New York and I did 'The Upright Citizens Brigade' out there. I had a two-man show with a guy named Oliver Ralli who's now in the band Pass Kontrol, which is a big band out of New York.

The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.

No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.

Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.

This sutura gives example about the purpose of relationship. A son of enemy who wants to uproot his own father, should be treated as friend and shold be protected. This may be called opportunism but is and should be necessary part of polity and statesmanship. Moreover, if a father is not aan upright man to have friendship with his sone can be a meritorious peson. So it is better to protecdt him.

I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke with fulsome words of sycophantic insincerity, praising him as the light of the universe (in hopes, no doubt, for a few ducats to support future work); this old practice makes me feel like such an honest and upright man, by comparison, when I put a positive spin, perhaps ever so slightly exaggerated, on a grant proposal.

There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction.

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.

There is only one po- sition for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.

In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do their feeble best for unrighteousness. Just as the upright politician should hold in peculiar scorn the man who makes the name of politician a reproach and a shame, so the genuine reformer should realize that the cause he champions is especially jeopardized by the mock reformer who does what he can to make reform a laughingstock among decent men.

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

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

I love the sound and temperament of an upright piano.

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

If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.

Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.

The more the Jew is a Jew, the more universalist will his views and aspirations be, the less aloof will he be from anything that is noble and good, true and upright, in art or science, in culture or education; the more joyfully will he applaud whenever he sees truth and justice and peace and the ennoblement of man prevail and become dominant in human society.

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and keeping the divinity within you pure and upright, as though you were even now faced with its recall - if you hold steadily to this, staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing, only seeking in each passing action a conformity with nature and in each word and utterance a fearless truthfulness, then the good life shall be yours. And from this course no man has the power to hold you back.

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

I perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where my race and gender are rarely pointed out.

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.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.

Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.

Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.

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

We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

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

The roles that I get offered are very good and of serious women who are morally upright, righteous and honest.

You don't just magically flip some evolutionary switch somewhere and transmute a quadruped into an upright-walking bipedal human.

Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living.

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

Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright.

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.

'Upright Citizens Brigade' was a huge influence on us. And growing up we never missed 'Saturday Night Live.'

Too many of us live on the horizontal, vain level of life: We want to acquire more and more things; we want the material blessings of life and we are neglecting the elevated state of existence! And that's why God said of Abraham he was neither a Christian nor a Jew, he was a Muslim: he was an upright man.

If you want to support others you have to stay upright yourself.

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.

I consider myself to be very correct and proper: an upright citizen.

Thomas More: ...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down...d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.