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"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
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"The effect of one upright individual is incalculable." »Oscar Arias
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"A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice." »Shana Alexander
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"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over." »Aesop
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"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
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"Dawson Well, all I'm saying is that I want to look back and say that I did it the best I could while I was stuck in this place. Had as much fun as I could while I was stuck in this place. Played as hard as I could while I was stuck in this place. Dogged as many girls as I could while I was stuck in this place." »Dazed and Confused
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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
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"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society." »Daniel Webster
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"All sanity depends on this that is 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
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"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
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"The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." »Harriet
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"Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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"The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time." »Willie Tyler
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"If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place." »Cicero
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"If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even the third place." »Cicero
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"If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there" »Jerry Stahl
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"Why is the place you drive on is a parkway, and the place you park on is the driveway?" »Charles Lauller
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"House is a place where you live in, but home is a place where you belong" »The Omani Shed
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"Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage." »John Oliver Hobbes
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"A small town is a place where there is no place to go where you shouldn't." »Burt Bacharach
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"Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation." »Walter Winchell
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"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain." »Mary Catherine Bateson
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"Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person." »Frank Herbert, Dune
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"The future is no place to place your better days." »Dave Matthews, "Cry Freedom"
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"In a mirror, last place becomes first place... Just depends on how you wish to look at it." »Debbie Skelly
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"The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself." »Holly Lisle
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"Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person." »Frank Herbert, Dune
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"Prosperity knits a man to the world. He thinks he's 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take." »Cardinal Mermillod
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| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
