Lining Up Quotes

• And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Self, Envy, Interesting

  Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings”, p.468, Random House

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• I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.

  Beth Broderick

  Sight, Voice, Voting

  "Hate Takes A Holiday" by Beth Broderick, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2008.

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• Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Hope, Witty

  Don Marquis (2012). “Archy and Mehitabel”, p.54, Anchor

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• The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.

  Bob Barr

  Clouds, Government, Office

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• The creator of the universe is lining up things in my favour.

  Joel Osteen

  Law Of Attraction, Favour, Creator

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time: Finding Favour, Restoration and Abundance in Your Everyday Life”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• The planets are lining up, bringing brighter days.

  Michael Jackson

  Future, Planets, Brighter Days

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• Don't miss God's fingerprints all over the events, lining up people and circumstances in perfect timing to preserve His people and advance His agenda.

  James MacDonald

  People, Perfect, Missing

  James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.77, Moody Publishers

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• The movies have been so rank the last couple of years that when I see people lining up to buy tickets I sometimes think that the movies aren't drawing an audience - they're inheriting an audience. People just want to go to a movie. They're stung repeatedly, yet their desire for a good movie - for any movie - is so strong that all over the country they keep lining up.

  Pauline Kael

  Country, Strong, Couple

  Pauline Kael (1996). “Raising Kane and Other Essays”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• I retired once but you've got to have something to retire to and I don't want to do anything. My job is like a well paid hobby, I mean not a hobby but I'm not lining up every morning at the bus queue to go to work. I'm very lucky.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Morning, Jobs, Mean

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It's so easy to think that this [celebrity] is reality; that people are lining up outside just to write down what I have to say. That's not real; that's weird.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Real, Writing, Thinking

  "Jennifer Lawrence: Natural Talent". Stylist Interview, www.stylist.co.uk.

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• The support is absolutely crucial. If you have the right people helping you in the lead up to a major event, then you know when you're lining up to start the race you have them there with you, willing you on. And I'm not only referring to the coaches, mechanics, physios, administrators, but also family and friends.

  Chris Hoy

  Race, People, Support

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• They say life is all about connecting, like that's a good thing. But when brain and eyes are lining up you know different.

  Peter Abrahams

  Eye, Brain, Different

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• Across the nation, thousands of people are lining up in hospital waiting rooms, out the doors, down the steps, around the corners, and behind the hedges, waiting for their inoculations. Here's another idea for avoiding the flu: DON'T stand outside in the cold for hours around lots of other people.

  Jon Stewart

  Waiting Rooms, Doors, Ideas

  "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.

  Eddie Vedder

  Kids, President, Months

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• With more and more states legalizing marijuana, companies are lining up to create the first marijuana breathalyzer. Officials say the toughest part is getting stoners to stop trying to inhale off the breathalyzer.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Marijuana, Trying, Firsts

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• It's been an incredible few weeks for Emma Pooley, first winning three stages in the Giro Rosa to demonstrate that she's the best climber in the women's peloton, then lining up for La Course - a race she helped to make happen - on the Champs-Elyses. So, it may come as a surprise to hear that she will retire after the Commonwealth Games road race on Sunday.

  Emma Pooley

  Sunday, Winning, Race

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• The Bush administration said today there is a lot of support for us to attack Iraq. Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, they're all lining up.

  Jay Leno

  Iraq, Support, Today

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• Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.

  Charles Stross

  Mistake, Ends, Chains

  Charles Stross (2010). “The Fuller Memorandum”, p.25, Penguin

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• I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Block, People, Giving

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• When I created Chipotle in 1993, I had a very simple idea: Offer a simple menu of great food prepared fresh each day, using many of the same cooking techniques as gourmet restaurants. Then serve the food quickly, in a cool atmosphere. It was food that I wanted, and thought others would like too. We've never strayed from that original idea. The critics raved and customers began lining up at my tiny burrito joint. Since then, we've opened a few more.

  Steve Ells

  Simple, Ideas, Cooking

  "How Chipotle Became The Gold Standard Of Mexican Fast-Food" by Kal Gullapalli, www.businessinsider.com. January 21, 2011.

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• …. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.

  Albert Camus

  Sunday, Waiting Rooms, Office

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Plague”, p.26, Vintage

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• It wasn't about wanting to die or having nothing left to live for; it was about letting go. You live your life doing what you're supposed to do, following the rules, following your conscience no matter what your gut tells you - and most times, that's okay. Control is good. It allows you to believe in certainty and absolutes, like lining up the perfect shot. But when you hold on for so long, and hold on so tight, every once in a while you have to close your eyes and jump." Kelley Armstrong - Exit Strategy

  Kelley Armstrong

  Letting Go, Believe, Eye

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “Exit Strategy”, p.24, Seal Books

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• But how he acts, and what he says, and what he does, and who he is, they don't line up anymore, and the lie is in that not lining up, the lie is in not being what she needs but pretending that he is. No one says a word, and she sees it every minute they have together.

  Brad Barkley

  Lying, Together, Doe

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• He's treating her like she's fourteen and he's a normal adult, acting like he's taken her under his wing. Like he needs her detecting skills, same as Barrons did to Mac, and she's falling for it, same as Mac. He's lining up his dominoes, so they fall more easily when he feels like pushing them over, conserving energy so he doesn't have to hunt her when he's ready to kill her.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Taken, Fall, Skills

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.122, Delacorte Press

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• We were lining up and counting off nice and easy till you came stumbling through like a doped-up bull,' Minho responded.

  James Dashner

  Nice, Bulls, Easy

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Trilogy”, p.381, Scholastic UK

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