Lines Quotes

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. (Cardinal Richelieu)
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull. View quote
Rod Serling
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. View quote
Muhammad Ali
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply. View quote
Ulrich Beck
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. View quote
Benjamin Lee Whorf
In nature there are few sharp lines. View quote
A. R. Ammons
Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty! View quote
John Muir
The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. (Herbert Read)
The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research. View quote
Paul Dirac
Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ. View quote
Edward Young
Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction. View quote
John Avlon
From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. View quote
Walt Whitman
My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Many people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure. View quote
Rebecca Wells
Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola. View quote
Robert Shea
My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her. View quote
Brian Selznick
It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders. (Giles Foden)
Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse! View quote
Cornelia Funke
I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'. View quote
Alan Rickman
Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful. View quote
Lynsay Sands