Upstander Quotes & Sayings

The history of humanity is not a hotel where someone can rent a room whenever it suits him; nor is it a vehicle which we board or get out of at random. Our past will be for us a burden beneath which we can only collapse for as long as we refuse to understand the present and fight for a better future. Only then - but from that moment on - will the burden become a blessing, that is, a weapon in the battle for freedom. — Hannah Arendt

And then you realize that when you finally meet, when you finally find
each other, it doesn't matter. All the rest of it doesn't matter. Life scattered, life together. . . it's just
where things begin. It's where the story is when you jump into it. It doesn't stay there. You start
writing the next chapter from that moment on. — Donna Kauffman

I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time. — G. Willow Wilson

Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide. — Kurt Vonnegut

Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day. — Seneca.

Day of the Lord, as all our days should be! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Somewhere on earth, there was always a book with an answer in it, and the best way to find that answer was to read every book you could get your hands on. — Karin Slaughter

The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness
Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington. — Edwin Percy Whipple

The corpulent, impotent Petrus casts pubescent girls in skin flicks so low-budget sex, from film to film, takes place "on the same old couch, which occasionally changed covers. — Maj Sjowall

Hey, I'm an upstander - not a bystander! — R.J. Palacio

Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.". — Theodore Levitt

His hair has the long jesuschrist look. He is wearing the costume clothes. But most of all, he now has a very tolerant and therefore withering attitude toward all those who are still struggling in the old activist political ways ... while he, with the help of psychedelic chemicals, is exploring the infinite regions of human consciousness. — Tom Wolfe