Zitat des Tages über Aufrecht / Erect:
It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.
The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect.
You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people.
Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.
What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.'
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other.
Boys have always known they could do anything; all they had to do was look around at their presidents, religious leaders, professional athletes, at the statues that stand erect in big cities and small. Girls have always known they were allowed to feel anything - except anger.
At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.
I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the spot for the shoes of the month. I want them to serve another purpose.
