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Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

Fear - It's a fine line between that and pushing yourself. You definitely reach new heights when you push. But fear is good. Fear keeps us alive. If we didn't have it, we'd be doing crazy things and getting in sticky situations.

Feelings can be controlled and behavior can be controlled. The line of sin is between the feelings and the behavior. The line of prudence is between the susceptibility and the feelings.

Film-making is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.

Filmmaking, like sex, isn't a polite enterprise. It involves a lot of mess and the bottom line is, if somebody ain't screaming, you're not doing your job.

Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

[First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty.

Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

Follow the trend lines, not the headlines.

For all the progress, we recognize we're very far from the finish line.

For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.

For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

For everyone who thought I couldn’t do it… for everyone who thought I shouldn’t do it… for everyone who said, ‘It’s impossible’… see you at the finish line!

Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.

For me a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

For many of us, conversion is an ongoing process and not a onetime event that results from a powerful or dramatic experience. Line upon line and precept upon precept, gradually and almost imperceptibly, our motives, our thoughts, our words, and our deeds become aligned with the will of God. Conversion unto the Lord requires both persistence and patience.

For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end; running doesn't.

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

For me, like when you've put yourself out there emotionally, physically, and you've really put yourself on the line, for me, that means I've really done something.

For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line.

For me, listening to my breath in between the lines, allows me to be in deep connection to my spirit.

For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.

For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.

For most of the guys, killings got to be accepted. Murder was the only way that everybody stayed in line. You got out of line, you got whacked. Everybody knew the rules.

For the first time in my life, I put my body and reputation on the line to stand up for my beliefs and do the right thing. I hope I've encouraged other people to do the same.

For the real winners, there are no finish lines.

For the May Day is the great day, Sung along the old straight track. And those who ancient lines did ley Will heed this song that calls them back... Pass the cup, and pass the Lady, And pass the plate to all who hunger, Pass the wit of ancient wisdom, Pass the cup of crimson wonder.

For the first time in history, Congress has 100 women in it. Congratulations. Welcome to modern times, America. It's great having 100 women in Congress. Unless you're in line for the congressional bathroom.

Franklin Roosevelt had a pretty clear line. Ronald Reagan had a pretty clear line, people who rescue parties.

Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is.

Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks.

Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior.

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others, and considering well what they say. Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating. Gently but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.

General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over the same line, I will kill them all before they reach my line.

Geek and Sundry has an eclectic line-up of shows all targeted around things I love: Comics, Tabletop Games, Books and more.

Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.

Galleries are becoming overwhelmed with psychedelic music/art. I like it; it's a good direction, a new blurring of the lines between what you do.

Generally, I have to be able to get the lines out of my mouth without making a mistake before I go to sleep.

Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.