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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Aesop

We want to extend our adolescence as long as we can. I.O., Upright Citizens Brigade and 'SNL' have enabled me to do that.

Amy Poehler

But we cannot support a group that has not been upright with us. We need honesty to have dialogue.

Luke Howe

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

Mary Wilson Little

The man of life upright,/ Whose guiltless heart is free/ From all dishonest deeds/ Or thought of vanity.

Thomas Campion

Our bass player left for Austin, and Scott learned how to play the upright bass in a month.

Mike Fluno

There were three on their side, the other nine were upright with either one or both sets of wheels off the track.

Jim Feeny

A voluntary UL standard requires that the units remain upright when placed on a ten-degree angle and a 70-pound weight is placed on top of it to simulate a television.

Don Mays

All the stones that were pushed over are upright and on their bases. We just have to glue them down, and that's going to take time to do.

Jay Taylor

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Thomas Carlyle

With the turf, the players have a tendency to play upright, and that isn't always a good thing.

Gail Petty

Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents.

John Wanamaker

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

I begged to get in. I could run and be upright and play defense, but I couldn't bend over and pick up the ball.

Jim Harney

Jesus gave us the two most important commandments ? that we love the Lord with all our heart, soul and mind, and that we should love our neighbors as ourselves. You can't do that if you are not an upright, ethical person.

Merry Tipton

The main audience is the public, and what it's fundamentally interested in is looking at a nominee, sizing him up. And that's what hearings do: see if he stands up under fire, see if seems like a decent, intelligent, upright person. He seems to have hit a home run.

Robert George

The ground has really been soaked because of the rain. The trees were sliding down upright with the mud.

Rosette Lerias

With Brown, people get misled by him running upright, but he's still a very physical runner. He'll hit it between the tackles, and he's very explosive when he hits the hole.

Dexter Coakley

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

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

Benny Hill

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.

Patrick Barry

We did everything we could to keep the boat relatively upright. We kept trying to drive forward.

John Hyatt

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

Lots and lots of decorative pillows piled on the bed will give in a warm and inviting feel. I like to prop four sleeping pillows upright to serve as the backdrop for all the decorative pillows.

Deborah Carpenter

Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

Viktor Frankl

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

It was kicked high and from my vantage point it was inside the (left) upright but it was waved wide by the official.

Bob Lomp

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

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright.

Bible

Endless sorrow has fallen upon my heart. He was one of the truest and best men that ever lived, firm in his religious convictions, loyal to every right principle, strictly honest and upright in his life,... .with an absolute sincerity of character such as I have never seen in any other person.

Olympia Brown

I read a lot of scientific papers on the history of evolution and spent time talking to scientists. I started to write it in the spring of 2004 and wanted the book to look at the biggest questions people have about human origins, such as what were the first hominids and how did our ancestors evolve to walk upright?

Carl Zimmer

Phil is right here, he's close. Tiger's always close. As long as he's upright, he's close.

Rocco Mediate

I know I will face many challenges and examinations throughout the election period, but I vow to be an upright candidate and to participate with pride and professionalism.

Clara Chou

The congregation at that point had grown so much that everyone couldn't fit inside for services. He told them he could get everyone seated and built 44 pews. They are very narrow and upright and I think uncomfortable, but he fulfilled his promise of increasing the seating.

Mary Rankin

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

Lily Tomlin

It's a funny feeling. I've known for a few years that as long as I stayed upright and played 10 events a year, I would qualify.

Karrie Webb

We think that this is because we are face 'experts,' having learned over many years to spot fine differences in upright faces, but not in inverted faces. That experience makes faces unique, but there's nothing scientifically special about faces.

Maximilian Riesenhuber

That is playing into the hands of New Zealand teams, if you run upright into the contact situations like the Bulls did. They will hurt you, because they just love getting stuck into you in those confrontational situations.

Jerome Paarwater

My accompanists are Danny Barnes and Dennis Crouch. Dennis is a fantastic upright bass player -- and Danny sings harmony and plays electric guitar and he plays the banjo. Danny's been playing since September with me and we can do most everything fairly convincingly from the records, especially with that electric guitar arsenal.

Tim O'brien

Be upright in thy whole life; be content in all its changes;so shalt thou make thy profit out of all occurrences; so shall everything that happeneth unto thee be the source of praise.

Akhenaton

Country pleasure would be like what you would see on a country lane — people just going out for a ride, a very pleasurable way of going. The horses in a single driving class are more animated, faster, more extended and more upright.

Linda Kern