Quotes About Being Upstanding

#1. If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism.

Henry Rollins

#2. The easiest emotions for an author to evoke from readers are boredom and confusion.

Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

#3. A world of grief and pain
Flowers bloom
Even then

Kobayashi Issa

#4. Art is man determined to die sane.

Bernard DeVoto

#5. It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be - even if it isn't what you expected.

Jim Butcher

#6. Does one ever say the same thing in the same way to two different people?

Naomi Mitchison

#7. The only thing that really differentiates Texas from any other place in the world is the proclivity of its people to urinate outdoors and to attach a certain amount of importance to this popular pastime.

Kinky Friedman

#8. A demon, if you prefer the term; although to be honest, the difference between god and a demon is really only a matter of perspective.

Joanne Harris

#9. For a while is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

Haruki Murakami

#10. For me, I feel like reality TV is anything but these days.

Aubrey O'Day

#11. God's Word, when rightly expounded, is medicinal for a whole host of spiritual diseases.

Joel Beeke

#12. If she'd known she was going to die at his hands, she would have dressed up.

Holly Black

#13. Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s.

Andy Warhol

#14. Plato says that as one learns to love, the image of any specific beloved can be left behind for knowledge of the Good.

William T. Vollmann

#15. They were a motley assembly, each with some cause for anxiety stirring at his heart; though, after all, that is saying little or nothing, for we are all of us in the same predicament through life; each with a fear and a hope from childhood to death.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#16. You can't keep pursuing pop success, and chasing the past.

Marc Almond