Drawing The Line Quotes

• A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Drawing, Sketching

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• You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Drawing

  "Grey's Anatomy". www.imdb.com. 2005-.

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• Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Funny Friend, Drawing

  "The Golden Book" Magazine, Vol. 7, (p. 323), 1928.

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• Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in.

  Shonda Rhimes

  People, Boundaries, Fence

  "Grey's Anatomy: The First Cut Is the Deepest". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

  Paul Klee

  Self, Drawing, Finals

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.183, Univ of California Press

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• Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Art, Mean

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• Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

  Huston Smith

  Art, Law, Essence

  "The World of Religion According to Huston Smith". Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. November/December 1997.

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• One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

  James Purefoy

  Drawing, Historical, Lines

  "Exclusive: James Purefoy Talks IRONCLAD and JOHN CARTER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 2, 2011.

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• I have a lot of friends and family that have suffered because of the church's judgment; my best friend in the world is gay. I felt a lot of people around me drawing lines in the sand, and that year I decided: I don't want to draw lines and have to be on one side or the other, but if someone's going to push me to one or the other side of the line, I'm going to stand on the side of those being judged because that's where I feel Jesus meets people.

  Derek Webb

  Jesus, Gay, Drawing

  "Just Follow Jesus: Interview with Christian Singer Derek Webb". Interview with Chris Stedman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 26, 2010.

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• The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Drawing, Lines, Sake

  "Pearce v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 315 U.S. 543". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 9, 1942.

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• In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Drawing, Western Culture, Pieces

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• At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them

  Shonda Rhimes

  Badass, Drawing, People

  "Grey's Anatomy / The First Cut Is the Deepest". 2005.

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• Stop the bullsh*t. Stop drawing lines in the sand like previous generations [have done].

  Michael Skolnik

  Drawing, Generations, Done

  "Global Grind Editor Michael Skolnik". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I close my eyes and can see men drawing lines in the dust. America pushes through the membrane of mist and smoke, and I'm a small boy again in Bogalusa.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Eye, Men, Boys

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