Straight Lines Quotes - Page 5

• Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities.

  Arianna Huffington

  Lines, Possibility, Inspiring Business

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• In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines 74 lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.

  Ludwig Bemelmans

  Girl, Two, Paris

  1939 Madeline.

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• I can't draw a straight line to save my life. I just can't draw.

  Joel Courtney

  Lines, Draws, I Can

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• Maybe time is nothing at all like a straight line. Perhaps it's shaped like a twisted doughnut. But for tens of thousands of years, people have probably been seeing time as a straight line that continues on forever. And that's the concept they based their actions on. And until now they haven't found anything inconvenient or contradictory about it. So as an experiential model, it's probably correct.

  Haruki Murakami

  Years, People, Forever

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 23, 2016

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• All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.

  Martin Filler

  Art, Order, Lines

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• I should have guessed you were Jace's sister," he said. "You both have the same artistic talent." Clary paused, her foot on the lowest stair. She was taken aback. "Jace can draw?" Nah." When Alec smiled, his eyes lit like blue lamps and Clary could see what Magnus had found so captivating about him. "I was just kidding. He can't draw a straight line.

  Cassandra Clare

  Taken, Eye, Blue

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.455, Simon and Schuster

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• There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.

  Julia Glass

  Swimming, Looks, Lines

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• Then I place the blade next to the skine on my palm. A tingle arced across my scalp. The flood tipped up at me and my body spiraled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next. What happened next was thet a perfect, straight line of blood bloomed from under the blade.The line grow into a long, Fat bubbel, A lush crimson bubbel that got bigger and bigger. I watch from above, waiting to see how big it would get before it burst. when it did, I felt awesome. Satisfied, finally. Then exhausted.

  Patricia McCormick

  Blood, Long, Perfect

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• Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

  Antonio Porchia

  Life, Distance, Lines

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Art, Circles, Lines

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• Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.

  Arthur Eddington

  Body, Lines, Uniforms

  Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1933). “The nature of the physical world”

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• Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Sight, Waiting, Lines

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1982.

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• At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

  John Piper

  Book, Godly, Levels

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• It is our inward journey that leads us through time – forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. As we discover, we remember; remembering, we discover; and most intensely do we experience this when our separate journeys converge. Our living experience at those meeting points is one of the charged dramatic fields of fiction.

  Eudora Welty

  Moving, Journey, Inward

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• My thoughts are messy, my emotions are messy, my body goes in and out at will. The raised white scars on my arms and legs are the only aspect of my being that comes close to minimalism. They came from chaos, but it is hard to carve frustration and unease into the flesh. Only straight lines.

  Emma Forrest

  Frustration, White, Body

  Emma Forrest (2007). “Thin Skin”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.

  Thomas Mann

  Distance, Lines, Spheres

  Thomas Mann (1934). “Joseph and His Brothers”, New York : A.A. Knopf

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• A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

  Norman Mailer

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Tyrants

  1963 The Presidential Papers, preface.

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• My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Goal, Lines

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Duncan Large (2008). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.10, Oxford University Press

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• Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past and the futures is that one has happened while the other has not. Lies 4: We can only be in one place at a time. Lies 5: Any proposition that contains the word 'finite' (the world, the universe, experience, ourselves...) Lies 6: Reality as something which can be agreed upon. Lies 7: Reality is truth.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Reality, Past

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• Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Distance, Car, Literature

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• Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye.

  Shannon Hale

  Eye, Giving, Black

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.208, A&C Black

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• He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

  Victor Hugo

  Two, Lines, Saws

  "Les Miserables".

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• Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German.

  Tom Waits

  Reading, Math, Reality

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• My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Christian, Atheist

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lines, Take Me, Walks

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The World And Other Places”, p.3, Random House

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