Thomas Becket

Between the uprightness of my conscience and the hardness of my lot, I know not how either to show respect to my feelings or to the times. The bitterness of my mind urges me at all hazards to speak what I think, whereas the necessity of the times prompts me, however unbecomingly, to keep silence. Good God! Which way shall I turn myself?

English Clergyman

Emmitt Smith

I know how important it is to have your quarterback standing upright. Matter of fact, I know how important it is not to allow someone hit on him period because I want him to think that this pocket is completely safe, no one is going to get to me and I got all the time in the world to make whatever decisions I need to make.

American Athlete

Jos Buttler

Your core holds you upright; it helps you bend and twist and jump; it helps you transfer power through your body; and it strengthens your posture, whether you are batting, sitting at a desk or running around a park.

English Athlete

Giacomo Casanova

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

Italian Celebrity

Big Freedia

Definitely practice in the mirror before you attempt it. You have to use your body in the upright position, you can use your knees for support and that's the only way you can twerk.

American Musician

Georg Brandes

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

Danish Critic

W. Bruce Cameron

Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.

American Author

Elias Canetti

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

Swiss Author

George Henry Lewes

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

English Philosopher

Aeschylus

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

Greek Poet

Used when something is perpendicular to the ground and often implies stability.

Physical positioning

Advises to straighten one's body for formality, health, or attentiveness.

Attention to posture

Highlights a person's good character with a focus on their morality and fairness.

Moral integrity

Suggests a person is worthy of trust and deserving of respect due to their behavior.

Trust and respect

Informs about the action of moving something to a vertical stance, especially after it was not.

Achieving verticality

Often used metaphorically to suggest a person or thing is returning to a normal or desired state.

Recovery or readjustment

Refers to items that provide foundational or reinforcing strength to a structure.

Structural support

Describes the vital components designed to keep objects stable, frequently in furniture or construction.

Functional design

Specifies a piano style that is smaller and stands vertically, suitable for limited space.

Musical instrument type

Indicates the upright piano’s advantage of being space-efficient while still being elegant.

Compact elegance

 before they try them out in real life. This is a trick that none of our ancestors could do, and that no other animal can do quite like we can. It's a marvelous adaptation. It's up there with opposable thumbs and standing upright and language as one of the things that got our species out of the trees and into the shopping mall.

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 can move around on the ground, but a sloth moving around on the ground is possibly one of the creepiest things that you will ever see in your life. Yeah, it's it's more of like a crawl in a really strange way, like something out of a horror film, really. But no, they can't walk upright. Why do sloths exist?

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 it was an entire collection of classical records that she's secretly acquired one week at a time for months and months has parted an incentive program at the grocery store and from that point forward there was always music in the o'reilly household my humble outside base upright washtub didn't matter he

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 These curves help us stay upright and absorb some of the stress from activities like walking and jumping. If they are aligned properly, when you're standing up, you should be able to draw a straight line from a point just in front of your shoulders, to behind your hip, to the front of your knee,

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 where they help shield the large surface area of your head from physical damage and sunburn. When you're cold, tiny muscles called arrector pilli cause hair to stand upright across the body. That’s the phenomenon known as goosebumps and it traps body heat close to your skin.

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 in that first generation of stars, could fuse with hydrogen to form water, liquid water on the surface. On at least one, and maybe only one of those planets, primitive life evolved, which evolved over millions of years into things that walked upright and left footprints

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 in real life this is a trick that none of our ancestors could do that no other animal can do quite like we can it's a marvellous adaptation it's up there with opposable thumbs and standing upright and language as one of the things that

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 So when one duke bragged that his subjects were so upright that a son testified against his own father when his father stole a sheep, Confucius informed the duke that genuinely upright fathers and sons protected one another.

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 have upright monuments out in isolated clauses and things that that Palenque instead given the great limestone sources they had put big slabs on the walls of the temples and this helped to preserve the inscriptions and the

Palenque and the Ancient...

 bones so we can't be sure about the length of the neck nor can we be sure about the posture really this one looks to me rather front heavy and it could well be that in life the animal was more upright

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