Straight Lines Quotes

• The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

  Charles Bukowski

  Distance, Two, Unbearable

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• The song of the curved line is called happiness.

  Rene Crevel

  Song, Lines

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• Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  School, Study, Obvious

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• Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners.

  Rene Crevel

  Flower, Cutting, Broken

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• Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.

  Kara Goucher

  Motivational, Running, Choices

  FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from Jan 23, 2013

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• Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.

  Peter Senge

  Reality, Circles, Lines

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.63, Random House

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• Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.

  Gloria Steinem

  Nature, Moving, Lines

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• There's no straight line to progress.

  Barack Obama

  Wisdom, Progress, Lines

  "CNN Student News Transcript". Interview with Carl Azuz, www.cnn.com. May 19, 2011.

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• Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines.

  Hideki Yukawa

  Nature, Science, Lines

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• Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.

  Albert Einstein

  Distance, Believe, Lines

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• The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Lines, Optical Illusions

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1969, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Moving, Doe, Lines

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2002). “Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future”, p.32, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

  Mark Twain

  Circles, Lines, Holes

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.152, 谷月社

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• My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Soccer, Ideas, Goal

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• Try not to make a straight line crooked.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Trying, Lines, Crooked

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• A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Ideas, Atheism

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no straight line to a dream.

  Jack Welch

  Dream, Lines

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• The world is made of Circles
  And we think in straight Lines

  Peter Senge

  Thinking, Circles, World

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• No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.

  Pat Conroy

  Laughter, Fate, Law

  Pat Conroy (2012). “Beach Music”, p.115, Random House

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• The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Humanity, Lines, Downfall

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Andreas Hirsch (2011). “Art of the green path”, Prestel Pub

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• But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going.

  Chris Kyle

  Real, Perfect, Lines

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• A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

  Robert Henri

  Curves, Drawing, Doe

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• But his pantheon would have survived. (Kat) Would it? Fate is never that simple. It doesn’t go in a straight line, and the more you try to circumvent it, the worse you make it on yourself. Fate will not be denied. Sin would have lost his powers by another means, at another time and place. And whoever took them then might have killed him. Had he died, the world would have ended a long time ago or the gallu would have run free and taken over. There are infinite possibilities. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Taken, Mean

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• Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.

  Richard Rohr

  Order, Perfect, Lines

  Richard Rohr (2011). “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.54, John Wiley & Sons

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• Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Lines, Lists, Shows

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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