Top 86 Straighten Up Quotes
#1. Well I took her over to a soda fountain over on Bo's She had an Ice Cream Sundae and a hot cup of Jo She leaned way back just to straighten up her hose Well the ice cream melted and the coffee froze.
Gene Vincent
#2. When he lifted her arm and bit into the delicate skin on her inner bicep, she gasped. He followed the bite with a soft, lingering kiss, then helped her straighten up and turned her around to face him.
Anonymous
#3. Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.
Daniel Kahneman
#5. My hair and I had a really bad argument. She was being sprayed with alcohol and burnt with irons. She was being over processed and yanked and pulled by weave strings and suffocated by glue. She told me if I didn't straighten up and fly right that she was leaving.
Chrisette Michele
#6. 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
#7. Nellie, when are you going to straighten up?"
"Never Mom, never.
Lila Felix
#8. Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.
Edward Albert
#9. If God is watching your every move, you should probably straighten up your act a little bit.
Misha Collins
#10. That he is, darling.That he is. Now straighten up, and put on a pretty smile. No man wants to be denied the prettiest grin he could ever come across.
Sai Marie Johnson
#11. When the world is on your shoulder, got to straighten up your act and boogie down.
Michael Jackson
#12. Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room
before you save the world. Then save the world.
Ron Padgett
#13. If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.
Jerry Falwell
#14. Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.
David Bowie
#15. 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
#16. Before aligning the mind, body and soul ... first one has to straighten their mind out.
Stephen Richards
#17. Near the pool table, two guys straighten from the shots they were lining up.
Dust places his pool stick on the table.
Katie McGarry
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Whoever said that a straighten hand was more dramatic than a healed heart?
Ted Dekker
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Yet each day, he managed to unravel and straighten himself, disgusted and thankful. Wrecked, but somehow not torn into pieces.
Markus Zusak
#24. 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
#25. Lift your eyes, straighten your back, let fear and pain walk away like the turtles they are.
Victor Robert Lee
#26. Christ did not come to straighten out the natural, but to "CROSS" it out.
L.E. Maxwell
#27. Follow your passion and the rest will straighten itself out.
Danny Gregory
#28. If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
Billy Graham
#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. The dream giver [God] will remove mountains, He'll fill valleys, He'll straighten crocket ways for you to fulfil your dreams. And His timing is the best.
Euginia Herlihy
#31. 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
#32. I have very curly hair and I straighten it every day - it takes maybe two minutes. I can't imagine anyone having a bigger challenge than I do in the kinkiness that is my crazy 'fro.'
Ginnifer Goodwin
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.
Anna Quindlen
#36. We're learning lessons from Africa. And the lesson that we need to learn is, how do we straighten our backs up in the face of these oligarchs and plutocrats who are trying to snatch the best of our democracy away?
Cornel West
#37. You feel like quitting, like giving up. You can't understand why the road doesn't get easier, why God doesn't remove the stones and straighten the path. If God did that, you might never get to the top, because the bumps are what you can climb on.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#38. 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
#39. Just then Jagger walks in, his hair all ruffled and his body hard and firm. We all stop talking and stare as he runs his hands through his hair in an attempt to straighten it up.
"Take a picture ladies, it lasts longer." he mutters
Bec Botefuhr
#40. 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
#41. Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings. I enjoy the freedom and the altitude. It is only when I return to life below that I feel the world's weight on my shoulders.
Anatoli Boukreev
#42. He ran both his hands through his hair, as if somehow that would straighten out his thoughts.
Margaret George
#43. If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.
Sandy Koufax
#44. The master is bringing Darwin through to examine lower life-forms, Rhoda. Straighten your spine or you'll be mistook for a mollusk.
Gregory Maguire
#45. I'd rather straighten my pubes with a flat iron than go on another blind date.
Stephanie McAfee
#46. 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
#47. When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out.
Bill Cosby
#48. We got dreams and we got the right to chase 'em, Look at the nation, that's a crooked smile braces couldn't even straighten.
J. Cole
#49. This line of reasoning could have frightened him, but it did not. He gained a certain strength from it. Because, after all, what can be imagined can be achieved.
At the head of the stairs, he paused to straighten a mask that had been knocked askew.
Mal Peet
#50. If you have to put a matchbox under your chair, you need to straighten out your floor.
John McConnell
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. He sat on his bed watching Willa straighten her hair. We may have been in crisis mode, but that didn't mean her hair had to look like it.
Amanda Hocking
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. They put me in a whole body suit, from my neck to my ankles. It was so bad, I couldn't straighten my legs.
Kieran Culkin
#57. I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I couldn't bend my knee. I couldn't straighten it.
Dominique Moceanu
#58. The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.
Robert Breault
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. There came a point when I wanted to do television, and I didn't think the Afro was going to play, so I made a very difficult choice - to straighten my hair.
Jami Floyd
#62. Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master.
Gautama Buddha
#63. Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
Gautama Buddha
#64. 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
#65. And here," she said. "Let me fix your tie." She tugged on his bow tie, her eyes appraising him, and he basked in it. He had left his tie crooked on purpose, just so she could straighten it.
Elin Hilderbrand
#66. George E. Johnson marketed the "relaxer," a chemical product used to straighten otherwise curly African American hair. According to some estimates, the black hair care industry is worth more than one billion dollars annually.
Nicola Yoon
#67. I'm supposed to spread my fingers as wide as they were with the rubber band, mash my palms hard into the floor, and pull myself down. When I do, I surprise even myself when my elbows straighten with barely any effort.
Christopher McDougall
#68. Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent
Martin Luther King Jr.
#69. 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
#70. Yield and you need not break. Bent, you can straighten. Emptied, you can hold. Torn, you can mend.
Jeffery Deaver
#71. When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.
Alexander Payne
#72. This country right now owes $19 trillion. And they need somebody like me to straighten out that mess.
Donald Trump
#73. 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
#74. Mud covered me from face to feet. I couldn't straighten my body, however much I tried to.
But I was alive.
I was alive and I could do seventy push-ups in the mud with a freaking bazooka tied to my back.
Pedro De Alcantara
#75. I am the woman who,when the priest asks,"Is there any reason why this man and woman cannot be joined in holy matrimony?", would clear her throat or stand up to supposedly straighten her dress, thus making the groom and bride nervous for a minute.
Zukiswa Wanner
#76. 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
#77. Never lose hope, for all the interweaved strings
will soon straighten out.
Aditi Dufare
#78. A smile is a curve that can straighten out a lot of problems.
Ana Ivanovic
#79. Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#80. 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
#81. This will involve audacity, clarity and plain speaking; trying to straighten my accounts with the world.
Oliver Sacks
#82. The world is poisoned with erroneous theories, and needs to be taught sane doctrines, but it is difficult to straighten what has become crooked.
Frances Xavier Cabrini
#83. Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#84. 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
#85. plunge ahead, put one foot in front of the other, straighten your back and your shoulders and everything else that is likely to slump, buck up and go forward, and in this way, every obstacle, be it physical or only imaged, falls face down in obeisance and in absolute defeat...
Jamaica Kincaid
#86. 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
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