Best 2466 quotes in «lines quotes» category

In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.

In addition to a timeline, I have proposed that U.S. troops be removed from front line combat positions in Iraqi cities and towns, turning over daily security patrols, interactions with citizens, and any offensive security actions to the Iraqis themselves.

In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for the archaic, and the canon of beauty.

In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

In Burma, our main goal in amending the constitution is not to phase out the military from politics. Our main point is to put the constitution in line with international standards and norms.

In business -- every business -- the bottom line is understanding the process. If you don't understand the process, you'll never reap the rewards of the process.

In choosing joy, the finish line dissolves into a different matter altogether.

Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are dangerously out of line with social facts.

India wants to help Nepal build highways (H), information highways (I) and transways - transmission lines (T).

Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.

I nearly forgot, Ragnak had a further message for you. He said if we lose this battle and loses his slaves as well, he's going to kill you for it," he said cheerfully. Halt smiled grimly. "If we lose this battle, he may have to get in line to do it. There'll be a few thousand Temujai cavalrymen in front of him.

I never had a time line for my life. I didn't say I wanted to be married at 28 and have three kids by the time I was 32.

I never have time to have a dinner. I have to eat while I'm memorizing lines. The only way to maintain energy is to eat all day long. I must eat all day long.

I never knew there were this many stars." "I can't see them," he told me. "I just see you." "That's one of your cheesier lines," I told him. "It's the altitude," he told me. "I don't have enough oxygen in my brain." "I see.

I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines.

I never really called people out. It was more along the lines of teasing a person. It started for me in fifth grade on the basketball court.

I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.

I never start with the story first, which is maybe obvious, because the narrative line of my films is really not that strong or dramatic. They're very simple.

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.

I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point.

I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line.

Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.

In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.

In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come off in the perfect way envisioned.

Ingres was one of those artists to whom the outline was something sacred and magical, and the reason is that it was the means of reconciling the major conflict in his art, the conflict between abstraction and sensibility.

Infinite trust is what you are. It describes everything in the reality where you can feel your whole being. In that line between here and infinity, everything is contained.

In live action, you go scene by scene, but in voice over you go line by line. In voice over you do a lot more takes.

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.

In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.

In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in common life, but a-x. Hence mathematical language has great advantages over the common language.

In much postmodern theatre ... the line between theatre and non-theatre is deliberately erased.

In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.

In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.

In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a spectral line appeared to me to be the result of the coherence and co-operation of several electric quanta.

In my opinion, all previous advances in the various lines of invention will appear totally insignificant when compared with those which the present century will witness. I almost wish that I might live my life over again to see the wonders which are at the threshold.

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.

In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes; and the town is blown sky-high in a stanza.

I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents.

In politics, there's a fine line between too much conviction and too little.

I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.

In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

(In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong.

In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.

In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.

In the beginning of Roomba, we all took turns answering the support line. Once, a woman called and explained that her robot had a defective motor. I said, 'Send it back. We'll send you a new one.' She said, 'No - I'm not sending you Rosie.'

In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.