Best 2466 quotes in «lines quotes» category

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

'Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.

God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.

God draws straight with crooked lines.

God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely.

God knows what it's like to be a human. When I talk to him about deadlines or long lines or tough times, he understands. He's been there. He's been here.

God knows the angel's wings must have been over us in view of the terrible mortality in all other camps up an down this line which seemed to be being built in bones.

God really exists, I tell you like this: It resides inside. And anybody tell you different, Just selling you religion, Tryin' to keep your ass in line.

God will dare to do the impossible in your life if you dare to step across the faith line.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Good customer service begins at the top. If your senior people don't get it, even the strongest links further down the line can become compromised.

Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along

Gravity has taken over me from time to time. But otherwise than that, I'm blessed with good health. That's the bottom line.

Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels.

Great leaders have to know when to divide that line from being selfless to being selfish, and he perfectly chose the time to be selfish and made plays.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Great talent stands in line to join your team because the culture becomes the stuff of legend.

Handling a painful situation in a comedic way is truly the funniest. That is extremely real to me and not kind of clownish. There is a thin line though; you can't overdo it.

Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as links of tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe.

Greyhound Bus Lines motto: "We Stop For Some Damn Thing Every 200 Yards.

> CracKing: No need to yell. > FtLouie: I’m not yelling!!! > CracKing: You’re using excessive amounts of punctuation, and on-line, that’s like yelling.

Had I not played the Sicilian with Black I could have saved myself the trouble of studying for more than 20 years all the more popular lines of this opening, which comprise probably more than 25 percent of all published opening theory!

Happiness is not about the trophy, or the finish line. It's the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your life

Has that line ever worked for anyone?” “I’m not feeding you lines. I mean every word.” … “Day One of my life was the day I met you.” “Okay, that’s a winner. You can put it in.

Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.

Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone with a sharp pencil and an eye for this kind of thing, this can't last.

Have you met my boyfriend?” There. That was a doozy. His eyes narrowed, and his lips thinned into a tight line. Yep, Noah was a mood kill for both of us.

Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. It's good for the bottom line.

Have you thanked a front-line employee for carrying around a great attitude ... today?

Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.

Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.

He felt it too, the air between us, the invisible lines that something or someone had drawn to connect us. That's the way I remember it.

Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.

He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions.

He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.

he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was all-important.

Hemingway and Saroyan had the line, the magic of it. The problem was that Hemingway didn't know how to laugh and Saroyan was filled with sugar.

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

Here is a good bill that's needed in America. If it's unconstitutional, let the U.S. Supreme Court reverse its opinion and get in line with New Hampshire and that will make it constitutional.

Here is the start, there is the finish line. Between that, you have to run.

Here's a viewer's guide to BP media briefings. Whenever you hear someone with a British accent talking about this on behalf of British Petroleum they are not telling you the truth. That's the bottom-line.

Here's the real thing. Democrats got to understand that the first line in the Republican playbook is going to be smear, you know? And there's nobody who's going to be able to avoid it.

Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.

… Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like this, in line, always identical, innumerable, bringing nothing!

Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness.

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.

...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.

He stares at me, and then leans back in his chair. "He's ill, Jacob." I say nothing. "He's a paragon schnitzophonic." "He's what?!" "Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al. "You mean paranoid schizophrenic?" "Sure. Whatever. But the bottom line is he's mad as a hatter.

He's the type of bloke you would want to have on your side. When you see an Indian side with Ganguly in the line-up, you know it's game on. You don't have to like or dislike him. You have to respect him.