I had shown my colors. Those who took their red straight, without a chaser of white and blue, were not mollified.

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham
  Present at the Creation.

So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard thesound of thetrumpet, and the peopleshouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. 90

-Bible (Old Testament)
Joshua 6:20.

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the L hand double for all her sins. The voice of himthat crieth in the wilderness,Prepare ye the way of the L, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valleyshall be exalted,and everymountainand hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the L shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the L hath spoken it. The voicesaid,Cry. And hesaid,What shall Icry? All flesh isgrass, and all thegoodlinessthereof isastheflowerof the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the L bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORD'SORDORDORDORDIsaiah 40:1^8.

   Round and round the circle Completing the charm So the knot be unknotted The cross be uncrossed The crooked be made straight And the curse be ended.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Family Reunion, pt.2, sc.3.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which, no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

-Galsworthy,John
  In Chancery, pt.1, ch.13.

You don't need to be 'straight'to fight and die for your country.You just need to shoot straight.

-Goldwater, Barry M(orris)
  On homosexuals in the military. In Life, Dec.

That's what you always said, success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight, and you were right.

-Hellman, Lillian Florence
   Julian. Toys in the Attic, act1.

Next tobeing right inthis world, thebest of all things isto be clearly and definitely wrong. If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere; but if you are absolutelyand thoroughlyand persistently wrong you must, some of these days, have the extreme good fortune of knocking yourheadagainstafact, andthat setsyouallstraightagain.

-Huxley,T(homas) H(enry)
Attributed.

Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.

-Kant, Immanuel
  Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbu«  rgerlicher Absicht (Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose), prop.6.

He turned the old one-stringed instrument into a many- chorded lyre† W.G. discovered batting; he turned its many narrow straight channels into one great winding river.

-Ranjitsinhji, Prince
  Of W G Grace.TheJubilee Book of Cricket.

Here is all straight and narrow as a tomb Oh shut me not within a little room.

-Smith, Stevie (Florence Margaret)
  Harold's Leap,'The Commuted Sentence'.

I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deep Forest, where all must lose Their way, however straight Or winding, soon or late; They cannot choose.

-Thomas, (Philip) Edward
  'Lights Out'.