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By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

By putting a border line between life and death, we separate the world of death from our world of life, casting the dead away into the "world of oblivion".

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There’s no specific line, as you know.

Calmly spinning, I scan as far away as I can see. The last rays of the day's sun warm my back and my stare locks onto my own shadow. I follow the lines of my body on the stone in front of me, spreading my arms as wings, and bathe in the beauty of existence.

Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people raised in a faith-based culture will stick with their religion and be lost to science.

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things , which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.

Can you spare some change? is never a good pick up line.

Caring works. Caretaking doesn't. We can learn to walk the line between the two.

Cause I am not a word, I am not a line. I am not a girl that can ever be defined

Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.

Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.

Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.

Christianity is not a cafeteria line where you say, “I’ll have a little salvation, but no Lordship right now.

Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.

Civil War was recorded by the original line-up

Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.

C'm'on lefties! Admit that Trump has been very tough on China. He has been especially tough on Chinese kids who slave away in sweatboxes, making his clothing lines.

Cocaine is yucky. I did it once: I was at a party; I was bored. I was like, 'Alright, I'll do a line.' Then I was just bored longer.

Cognitive science is a rapidly developing area, so it could be that there are some surprises around the corner. That does seem to be kind of where the trend line is leading.

Comedy's easy for me now - it's all about timing and the way you deliver lines. I use facial expressions to get the point across.

Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

Count on big lines to express your ideas.

Coming from heavy music too, it's really hard to have heavy music not sound too butthead-ish or jock-ish, and there's a fine line between Limp Bizkit and Nirvana - there's a fine line there, and it's terrifying.

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.

Courage is the only asset That will conquer in the fight If you have the will to mass it On the lines of truth and right.

Comic-Con has been an amazing experience. It's overwhelming, I have to admit, because of the lines and the crowds.

Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the same. If it be not, ask, 'What is the difference?

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.

Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate.

Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

Courage is crossing a starting line.

David Roberts, who is a writer at Vox who I like, had a line about the voter - your voters weren`t locked in the room with you, Republican establishment. You were locked in the room with them.

Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.

Czech Republics worst pick up line: What's a nice place like this doing around a women like you?

Dancin' in the welfare lines.

Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

[D]ebt increases that didn't arise either from war or from extraordinary financial crisis are entirely associated with hard-line conservative governments.

Democrats can have a different version of the line, or they can just say, no, we are the party of international peace and activism, and we're the party that's going to have a civilized capitalism.

Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line.

Democrat women lead the way in showing other women how to be stepped on and diminished by men. That's what they do, for a payoff somewhere down the line.

Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.

Disarmed citizens encourage crime and violence. Armed citizens encourage criminals to find a safer line of work.

Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin.