Straight Lines Quotes - Page 8

• The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.

  Archimedes

  Lying, Opposites, Joining

  Archimedes, Sir Thomas Little Heath (2002). “The Works of Archimedes”, p.194, Courier Corporation

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• Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.

  Sallust

  Moving, Fire, Air

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• Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our fathers-settler-colonialism, the doctrine of discovery, the myth of manifest destiny, white supremacy, theft and systematic killing-to the contemporary condition of permanent war, invasion and occupation, mass incarceration, and the constant use and threat of state violence.

  Bill Ayers

  Father, War, Destiny

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• So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute parts are in rapid motion, the velocity increasing with the temperature, that the precise nature of this motion becomes a subject of rational curiosity. Daniel Bernoulli, Herapath, Joule, Kronig, Clausius, &c., have shewn that the relations between pressure, temperature and density in a perfect gas can be explained by supposing the particles move with uniform velocity in straight lines, striking against the sides of the containing vessel and thus producing pressure.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Moving, Perfect, Curiosity

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• Common to the two geometries is only the general property of one-to-one correspondence, and the rule that this correspondence determines straight lines as shortest lines as well as their relations of intersection.

  Hans Reichenbach

  Two, Lines, Common

  Hans Reichenbach (1958). “Philosophie Der Raum-Zeit-Lehre”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• It's nice to finally be able to wake up and tie my shoes without feeling like I'm about to tip over, or walk a straight line without feeling dizzy, or be able to feel my left arm. That means a lot more to me.

  Prince Fielder

  Nice, Mean, Shoes

  Source: sports-ak.espn.go.com

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• I think it's fair to say you can't predict a straight line to victory. You know, there'll be good days and bad days along the way.

  Dick Cheney

  Good Day, Bad Day, Thinking

  "Diversity's Peace" by Emil Guillermo, www.sfgate.com. October 23, 2001.

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• When you organize your work and look back at your entire production, it may feel like you're looking at a straight line, but in fact it's nothing like that. The work is very experimental and most of the time it develops like branches. I usually see a capillary, like a tree shape where there are... branches that sort of move because you're not tending to them.

  Vik Muniz

  Moving, Tree, Facts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The path of America's development is never a straight line. Sometimes we move in ways that are forwards; sometime that seem back.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, America, Development

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• History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Lines, Sometimes

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The United States are a miracle: the division between two states is sometimes a river or a mountain, and sometimes it's a straight line. But nobody says, "That tree really belongs in South Carolina. I shan't do anything about it now, I'll get it back later." I shall go after I am here to London and after that to Potsdam, where Comrade Stalin, Mr Churchill and Harry Truman divided up Europe; and what we see now is the result of that. The Americans would have accepted it. But Europeans don't accept anything.

  Quentin Crisp

  Europe, Two, Rivers

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• It is a simple matter to plant trees in straight lines, but informal groupings will test the sensitivities of the most experienced planter and the smaller the groups the more difficult they are to place.

  Graham Stuart Thomas

  Simple, Tree, Groups

  Graham Stuart Thomas (1979). “Great gardens of Britain”

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• I still smile it's not worth the trouble any more for a long time now it's not been worth the trouble the tongue spring goes into the mud I stay like this not thirsty any more the tongue goes back into the mouth it closes it has to make a straight line now it's done I've made the image.

  Samuel Beckett

  Spring, Long, Mud

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• The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

  Antonio Gaudi

  Men, Lines

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• Relationships are not straight forward. They're not black and white. Sometimes things don't always going in a straight line, and that's okay. Love can be very confusing.

  Danica McKellar

  Black And White, Confusing, Lines

  "Danica McKellar, Olivia d’Abo and Alley Mills Talk THE WONDER YEARS, How the Show Impacted Their Lives, and the 23 Hours of Bonus Features on the DVD". Interview, collider.com. September 23, 2014.

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• One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw to very specific kinds of heroism. Most of us don't get to be Snooki. For most of us heroism has to be in our everyday lives.

  John Green

  Jobs, People, Everyday

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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• Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

  Andrew Davies

  Character, Looks, Lines

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• When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging. I think as long as you keep your mind in the palce where you're actively looking for patterns, you may not be safe, but you're going to feel safe, I think.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Long, Mind

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• This path, this road that is one perfect straight line even if it goes around the world through heat and fog and rain and snow and it's my life I keep thinking. It's my life.

  Deborah Keenan

  Rain, Thinking, Fog

  Deborah Keenan (2011). “Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems”, p.100, Milkweed Editions

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• Giving never moves in a straight line - it always moves in circles.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Moving, Circles, Giving

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• What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Adventure, Winter

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2919, Delphi Classics

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• Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Balance, Lines, Physics

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• I think the nerves aspect is a bit of a joke. How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another, most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models too, it wouldn't be the end of the world.

  Edie Campbell

  Fall, Thinking, People

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• The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Marching On, Progress, Lines

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Inspirational, Forever, Labyrinth

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