Straighten Out Quotes

#1. If you have to put a matchbox under your chair, you need to straighten out your floor.

John McConnell

#2. If [we] have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.

Boyd K. Packer

#3. The one who straightens out himself will attain moksha [will be liberated]. If you don't straighten out, people will beat you into doing so. The doorway to moksha [ultimate liberation] is narrow, so how will you be able to enter if you are obstinate?

Dada Bhagwan

#4. When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We're not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

Joseph Campbell

#5. Carrots might be good for my eyes, but they won't straighten out the curveball.

Carl Furillo

#6. For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive.

John Trudell

#7. La rama que crece torcida nunca se endereza. A branch that grows crooked, or that is crooked from the beginning, will never straighten out. If you don't learn right from wrong early on, or if you don't learn manners when you are young, you will never learn them later.

Maria Bethania

#8. My inability to keep my shit straight made me straighten out my shit.

Amy Poehler

#9. When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

Langston Hughes

#10. Freedom is knowing who you are, and once you know that the rest can straighten out itself if you really know who you are.

Doug Stewart

#11. I was trying my best to straighten out my life, but I always ended up in the middle of some festive waste of time.

Heather O'Neill

#12. We have to straighten out our country; we have to make our country great again, and we need energy and enthusiasm.

Donald Trump

#13. What the French want is coherence, stability and justice. If I am in a favorable position today, it's because my fellow citizens want to make the effort to straighten out the country, and at the same time they want it to be just and equitable.

Francois Hollande

#14. We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.

Debbie Harry

#15. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members. [Explaining rationale for using prominent black leaders to advocate birth control and abortion]

Margaret Sanger

#16. He ran both his hands through his hair, as if somehow that would straighten out his thoughts.

Margaret George

#17. Many people are trying to steady themselves by taking tranquilizers. Jesus is the greatest tranquilizer of all. He can straighten out your life and put you back on center.

Billy Graham

#18. It often happens that when couples get their relationship to God straightened out, their relationships with one another begin to straighten out as well.

Wayne Mack

#19. The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.

Robert Breault

#20. I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

Bill Lee

#21. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is throgh a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the Minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

Margaret Sanger

#22. When we pray, we make tremendous power available, dynamic in its working, causing changes in our favour. Certain prayer sessions are specially designed by the Lord to help straighten out things in the spirit-realm regarding our immediate or later future as individuals, families or ministries.

Chris Oyakhilome

#23. The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

Gail Collins

#24. What is it artists do?" And I mumbled something. "They do two things," he said. "First, they admit they can't straighten out the whole universe. And then second, they make at least one little part of it exactly as it should be. A blob of clay, a square of canvas, a piece of paper, or whatever.

Kurt Vonnegut

#25. Never lose hope, for all the interweaved strings
will soon straighten out.

Aditi Dufare

#26. What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?

Dick Gregory

#27. This country right now owes $19 trillion. And they need somebody like me to straighten out that mess.

Donald Trump

#28. A smile is a curve that can straighten out a lot of problems.

Ana Ivanovic

#29. If the bonus army conquered Washington the lawyer had a boat hidden in the Sacramento River, and he was going to row upstream for a few months and then come back because they always needed lawyers after a revolution to straighten out all the legal side.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#30. If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Billy Graham

#31. Christ did not come to straighten out the natural, but to "CROSS" it out.

L.E. Maxwell

#32. If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.

Sandy Koufax

#33. Dia wrinkled her nose. "Gross. You need a decent girl, one that can straighten you out."
"I don't need to be straightened out," Carmine said. "Why drown in love when you can have so much fun swimming in lust?

J.M. Darhower

#34. Why so much hate in your mind when love is the only way to straighten things out?

Beatrice Sparks

#35. I'm for everybody. You may not agree with me, but to me it's not my job to try to straighten everybody out. The Gospel is called the good news. My message is a message of hope, that's God's [message] for you. You can live a good life no matter what's happened to you.

Joel Osteen

#36. Mr. Offerman clasps his hand on top of hers. "It's a good hobby for you, dear. It gets you out of the kitchen."
I straighten my spine. Are we in the fifties here? "Out of the kitchen?

Lauren Blakely

#37. The winds that never moderation knew,
Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;
Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge
Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.

John Dryden

#38. Human hair takes much more attention, as far as holding the style. You have to comb it, straighten it out, and wash and dry it.

Beverly Johnson

#39. If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Ross Perot

#40. If a man's got talent and guts to buck society, he's obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him out and turn him into a plus value. Why throw him away? Do that enough and all you've got left are the sheep.

Alfred Bester

#41. This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.

Charles M. Schulz

#42. His nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out.

Marcel Proust

#43. We've backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going to beg with you for a minute. I'm going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.

James Mattis

#44. I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.

David Sedaris

#45. Suppose something goes wrong? Suppose you need a big full-figure woman like me to help straighten things out? Lula

Janet Evanovich

#46. As we live out of such a mind, we become generous, with no sense of tolerance. We become patient, with no sense of putting up with anything. We become compassionate, with no sense of separation. And we become wise, with no sense of having to straighten anyone out.

Steve Hagen

#47. Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out.

Harold Robbins

#48. When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out.

Bill Cosby

#49. Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.

David Bowie

#50. Before aligning the mind, body and soul ... first one has to straighten their mind out.

Stephen Richards

#51. You've got some very powerful countries: Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and others who have a genuine desire to see the euro zone straighten itself out. It's good for all of us, whether you're in the euro zone or not, to make sure that it doesn't lead to a fracturing.

Nick Clegg

#52. I don't want to leave this mess around my children to clean up. I want to swing absolutely as hard as I can to straighten things out before they get to the age where it starts hurting them.

Tom Morello

#53. The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time.

Anatoly Karpov

#54. This world is like a dog's curly tail, and people have been striving to straighten it out for hundreds of years; but when they let it go, it has curled up again. How could it be otherwise? One must first know how to work without attachment, then one will not be a fanatic.

Swami Vivekananda

#55. Follow your passion and the rest will straighten itself out.

Danny Gregory

#56. If I don't let God deal with my bentness, I will go the way of my bentness. But Jesus can straighten me out.

Johnny Hunt

#57. PLUTO is the limit for me.
Someday they will spell victory with my T. That day is Today. Don't wait for the green light. Rise, poise, beauty, youth, wear a smile, put some style, straighten those shoulders and walk out BOLD.

Me

#58. From nine on I was forced to camp every summer. Not a volunteer. I played with the wrong kids so they made me go to camp to straighten me out.

Bruce Dern

#59. Please. Don't switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don't express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me.

Sarah Kane

#60. I love what I'm doing. But I love the USA more. And I can straighten it out. And I can truly make this country great again and nobody else can do what I do.

Donald Trump

#61. I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.

Warren G. Harding

#62. Probably a few weeks after I was born I started having casts put on my legs to straighten them out. After that corrective shoes and with a brace in between.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#63. If you go wrong in a novel, you can straighten it out in the next chapter. You don't have any room to do that in a novella.

Gilbert Morris