Straight Lines Quotes - Page 2

• Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, History, Lines

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.248, Canongate Books

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• Revenge is never a straight line. It's a forest, and like a forest it's easy to lose your way … to get lost … to forget where you came in.

  Hattori Hanzo

  Revenge, Kill Bill, Lines

  "Fictional character: Hattori Hanzo". "Kill Bill: Volume 1", 2003.

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• Revenge is never a straight line.

  Hattori Hanzo

  Revenge, Lines

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• If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Looks, Shapes, Lines

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to count the straight lines which surround you. Then you will understand, for you will never finish counting.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Believe, Lines, Today

  "Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture" by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 1958.

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• When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.

  Samuel Beckett

  Reality, Men, Thinking

  Samuel Beckett (1955). “Molloy: A Novel”, p.115, Grove Press

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• The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

  Confucius

  Distance, Golf, Two

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• You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.

  Abe Burrows

  Curves, Lines, Ends

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• Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.

  Herbert Spencer

  Two, Doe, Lines

  Herbert Spencer (1868). “Social Statics, Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed”, p.510

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• It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.

  Pliny the Elder

  Distance, Men, Hands

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.421, Delphi Classics

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• We grow up hearing so often that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points that we end up thinking it is also the best way to get there. A river knows better-:it has to do with how it dissipates the energy of its flow most efficiently; and how, in its bends, the sediment deposited soon turns into marshes and swampy islands, harboring all manner of interesting life, imparting charm and character to the whole waterway. I would defy you to find a river on this planet that prefers to run straight, unless it has been taught so by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

  Thomas W. Horton

  Running, Growing Up, Distance

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• a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Two, Lines, Morality

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.306

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• The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness.

  Elif Safak

  Moving, Mean, Past

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• If you consider that a single straight line can be drawn between any two points, one day I'm going to draw a line from him to me or me to him.

  Delphine de Vigan

  Two, One Day, Lines

  Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.14, A&C Black

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• People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

  Erica Jong

  Attitude, Thinking, Ideas

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• I do not believe in eternal progress, that we are growing on ever and ever in a straight line. It is too nonsensical to believe. There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle. The force sent out will complete the circle and return to its starting place.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Circles, Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2232, Manonmani Publishers

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• Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead of singing, blow your guitar and ring the horn. Hate mathematics, and love eddies. Creation is a bird without a flight plan, that will never fly in a straight line.

  Violeta Parra

  Hate, Writing, Blow

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• Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or beast does, just like life does. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line? Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

  David Almond

  Book, Writing, Cat

  David Almond (2013). “My Name is Mina”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Jobs, Biblical

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• I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray.

  Fernand Leger

  Curves, Color, Lines

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• There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Distance, Two, Unification Church

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• A U. S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness.

  David Foster

  Team, Boys, Ideas

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• Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nature, Math, Science

  "The Puzzle Instinct : The Meaning of Puzzles in Human Life‎". Book by Marcel Danesi (p. 71), 2004.

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• Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Life, Valleys, Lines

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• I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts point, straight line and plane, if one adds to these all the axioms of groups i-v as characteristics. If one is looking for other definitions of point, perhaps by means of paraphrase in terms of extensionless, etc., then, of course, I would most decidedly have to oppose such an enterprise. One is then looking for something that can never be found, for there is nothing there, and everything gets lost, becomes confused and vague, and degenerates into a game of hide and seek.

  David Hilbert

  Confused, Mean, Games

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