Best 2466 quotes in «lines quotes» category

There are stereotypes - it's like an invisible line, but somehow you have to find the energy to be strong, to be super-confident, no matter if you are in front of the president of the U.S. or anyone else.

There are those uncomfortable things that've passed that you have to deal with or they define you, like childhood trauma. Like when I'm lost, I just feel like somewhere along the line, if you've gone through any childhood trauma, it makes you lose your essence and it takes a while to get that back. There are certain things about that that push my buttons.

The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up, get in line and wave the flag.'

The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the lawyers.

There can be a blurry line between laughing at the expense of a character and laughing at the recognition of something painful and true. But blurry as it may be, it is nevertheless unmistakable, and sometimes the laughter I hear makes me wince.

There'd never been a clothing line made by a young woman like me: a multiethnic woman who has one foot in Gucci and one foot in the ghetto.

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

There is a fine line between optimism and delusion. I cross it often.

There is a fine line between a sleepover and just drinking way too much at someone else's house.

There is a fine line between perseverance and madness.

There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.

There is a fine line between stubborn and stupid.

There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.

There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed.

there is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up?

There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.

There is a line between sexualityand promiscuity, and the line is closer to celibacy than not.

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

There is a line between a definite maybe and an indefinite yes.

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.

There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth.

There is a thin line between attraction and repulsion

There is a thin line between the policeman and the criminal. The best cops are always crossed. The best cops are the ones who are able to think like criminals. But for a quirk of fate, they might have been criminals.

There is a very blurry line between the things we can't do and the things that we can.

There is a very fine line between listening and stalking.

There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

There is but one question ultimately to be asked respecting every line you draw, Is it right or wrong? If right, it most assuredly is not a "free" line, but an intensely continent, restrained and considered line; and the action of the hand in laying it is just as decisive, and just as "free" as the hand of a first-rate surgeon in a critical incision.

there is in this world no line so bad that someone won't someday copy it.

There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different.

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.

There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms.

There is no finish line. When you reach one goal, find a new one.

There is no line of demarcation between the amateurs and the pros; everyone is using the same tactics and playing in the same arenas. The only thing that separates them is radio, but the artist doesn't control who goes to radio and who doesn't.

There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.

There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty.

There is no finish line when it comes to system reliability and availability, and our efforts to improve performance never cease.

there is no gateway to maturity; there is no line that is crossed. Maturity is like a maze, one path leading to another; it is like a great building full of corridors, one turning into another. Did anybody ever reach the end, so there was a clear way ahead, so he could say, now I am rich with knowledge, now I know all the answers?

There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.

There is not a line in 'The Wealth of Nations' that is not still applicable to this day.

There is no straight line to a dream.

There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?

There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.

There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. All the time, we find animals doing things that, in our arrogance, we thought were just human.