Erect Quotes

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

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.

The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age.

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.

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.

At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.

The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect.

To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?

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.

Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.

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.