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Source: Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change

“I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.”

“I think people have put too much focus on me. I don't think they realize the other weapons we have on this team. I don't think they realize the great offensive line that we have.”

People Thinking Realizing Lines Too Much Focus Team Weapons Nfl Offensive Offensive Line Focus On Me

Author:Colin Kaepernick

“With my dad passing away, he's always watching me-a big smile on his face, watching every snap on the 50-yard line.”

Bigs Faces Lines Dad My Dad Passing Passings Nfl Yards Snaps Passing Away

Author:Russell Wilson

“I think it's relatively easy to play defense against a team that can only do one thing. Unfortunately, that's not what we're talking about here with Seattle. They have a great running back - they have a great group of running backs - but Lynch obviously is really kind of in a class by himself. The quarterback's a problem, the receivers are a problem, they have a good offensive line.”

Thinking Kind Play Problem Running Easy Lines Talking Class One Thing Groups Team Defense Nfl Offensive Quarterback Super Bowl Seattle Receiver Great Running Running Back Offensive Line

Author:Bill Belichick

“Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't we humanists sometimes claim that there is a common thread of humanistic values running through history across cultural and religious lines?”

Ifs Doe Sometimes Running Religion Values Culture Religious Lines Common Share Morality Prove Claims Supreme Thread Humanistic Common Threads

Book:Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

Source: Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

“If there's a movie of Neuromancer, what I really want the special effects guys to do is make you see, from Case's point of view, the little acid giggies: the little lines and trails coming off of things.”

Ifs Want Littles Art Guy Lines Views Cases Special Effects Point Of View Trails Acid Special Effects

Author:William Gibson

“It's much harder to work for yourself, by yourself, than to create work for a gallery, because there are no limits and you can do anything you want. It's always easier when you have a parameter, when you have a limit. You can work within the limit and push it and walk the line, but when you're given absolutely no limits, it's harder. You must really think. It's more challenging.”

Thinking Want Given Can Do Challenges Lines Walks Easier Limits Harder Photographer Gallery Parameters

Author:David LaChapelle

“I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.”

People World Understanding Lines Figures Grew Grew Up Communicate Enjoyed Privacy Judged Being Me Nsa

Author:Edward Snowden

“I don't really like actors. Actors are like terrible comedians with no punch lines. It's all about them. They talk about themselves all the time. They bore the sh - t out of you.”

Actors Lines Terrible Comedian Bores

Author:Joe Rogan

“I think if the doctor is a good doctor and has a patient's best interest in mind then he's not going to allow anything to compromise that patient's care. The bottom line is the doctor has to care for his patient. You have to have that overwhelming sense of welfare for your patient.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Care Interest Lines Doctors Patient Bottom Compromise Welfare Overwhelming Bottom Line Good Doctors

Author:Charles Teo

“I've got such great people around me. They don't really care if they make me angry. A lot of teams, they're afraid to make the artist angry, because they don't want to get fired and all that stuff. My team's pretty good about letting me know when to get in line.”

People Ifs Knows Want Care Artist Stuff Lines Team Angry Great People Make Me Angry

Author:Justin Bieber

“It's easy to make something with a million style-lines. Simplicity is the most difficult thing to achieve, and that's how I approach design - very minimal, pare it down, perfect.”

Easy Difficult Lines Perfect Millions Achieve Style Design Approach Simplicity Difficult Things

Author:Keith Michael

“Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.”

Lines Reach Out Ladders Ups & Downs Straight Lines

Author:Joan Jett

“It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you weren't getting anything that was derivative of I Love Lucy or Happy Days. You were getting real characters [like those] they read in P.G. Wodehouse or Dickens or somewhere along the line, because they had all grown up with a love of literature.”

Book Real Character Lasts Reading Literature Lines Generations Tvs Cheer Reading Books Lucy Dickens Derivatives Watching Tv Happy Day Real Character

Author:John Ratzenberger

“If you want to get something done, there is always an alternate route other than cursing somebody and belittling them. There's always an alternate route. If you want to get any message across. Everybody has an opinion, and everybody has their own way of doing things, but the bottom line is that when you affect someone else, you should pay closer attention to how you treat people.”

People Ifs Way Want Should Done Lines Pay Attention Opinion Messages Treats Bottom Routes Bottom Line Cursing Belittle

Author:Ray Lewis

“You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs to find a way of expressing itself in the modern world.”

World Way Needs Lines Modern March Modern World

Author:Salman Rushdie

“It's fun to act, but for me, it's more fun to actually create the character and act it out knowing that I know everything about this character. That's more fun to me than just reading lines.”

Knows Character Reading Fun Lines Knowing

Author:Shane Dawson

“I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song.”

Song Lines Pops Toes Envelopes Avant Garde Pop Song

Author:Patrick Stump

“All the borders in the world are man-made There are no borders, we are all hooked together. Everything is connected. There is no line of demarcation. We are hooked together like the colors of a rainbow, our problem is ignorance, we don't understand that.”

Men World Made Problem Together Lines Ignorance Color Connected Borders Rainbow Hooked

Author:Bob Proctor

“I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.”

Thinking Mind Heart Winning Lines Ability Behinds Enemy Special Heart And Mind

Author:Conor Oberst

“I think we're fascinated by gangsters and that whole lifestyle and crossing the line. We get sort of stuck in our normal lives, if you will, and you want to be bigger than life and I think people somehow live through these sorts of characters.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Whole Character Lines Normal Bigger Whole Life Stuck Lifestyle Fascinated Crossings Gangsters Normal Life Bigger Than Life Crossing The Line

Author:Denzel Washington

“Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.”

Thinking Want Problem Fall Easy Natural Lines Hair Brands Consumers Irony Inherent Shelves No Problem Want U

Author:Aaron Belz

“I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.”

Want Mind Two Ideas Lines Laughing Taken Reader Sticks Granted Phrases Sequence Taken For Granted

Author:Aaron Belz

“I believe I'm very conscious of exactly what I'm doing. I'm auditioning lines of dialogue, and I'm interrogating whether the lines would translate from Russian into English the right way. The English that results can perhaps seem somewhat more formal than colloquial, but not so formal as to feel academic.”

Way Feels Believe Seems I Believe Lines Results Conscious Dialogue Academic Translate Formal Right Way

Author:David Bezmozgis

“There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader.”

People Different Character Three Lines Type Reader Draws Three Things

Author:David Bezmozgis

“Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!”

“Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet.”

Death Born Lines Study Discipline

Author:Philip Massinger

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

Lines Family Intimacy

Book:On Keeping Women: A Novel

Source: On Keeping Women: A Novel

“My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.”

Long Stories Would Be Father Lines Cases Tricks Peculiar Storyteller Long Life Obsessive Yiddish Long Story

Author:Stephen Greenblatt

“The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside.”

World Made Self Reality Lines Bears Ego Relation Boundaries Distinction Swallowing

Book:Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition

Source: Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition

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

Mother Father Lines Industry Genius Mortals Heavenly

Book:Ten Sermons of Religion

Source: Ten Sermons of Religion

“The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.”

Different Age Evil Lines Thousand Temptation Inquiry Speculation

Author:John Herschel

“a local train ... moved gently off up the line with a very singular motion indeed, in which the leap of a frog, the bounce of a pogo-stick, and the canter of a very short fat pony all were brought to mind.”

Mind Lines Moved Train Sticks Locals Fats Leap Frogs Bounce Ponies Pogo Sticks

Book:Silk Hats and No Breakfast: Notes on a Spanish Journey

Source: Silk Hats and No Breakfast: Notes on a Spanish Journey

“Some of the best indicators of a country developing along the right lines are healthy mothers giving birth to healthy children who are assured of good care and a sound education that will enable them to face the challenges of a changing world.”

World Giving Children Country Care Faces Mother Sound Challenges Lines Birth Healthy Developing Assured Giving Birth Indicators Healthy Children

Book:Letters From Burma:

Source: Letters From Burma:

“Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.”

World Way Firsts Ends States Home Lines Half Circles Latter Stillness Straight Lines Lad

Book:Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles

Source: Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles

“I hang my laundry on the line when I write.”

Writing Lines Laundry

Author:Joni Mitchell

“The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.”

Law Lines Bottom Physics Time Travel Bottom Line Laws Of Physics

Author:Brian Greene

“If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.”

People Ifs Way Country Political Politics Belief Challenges Lines Opinion Information Our Country Assumption Divides Disagree Viewpoints

Author:Barack Obama

“Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are so many witnesses against you; and this grand display of their tarnished glory but serves to make your ignominy more evident.”

Ifs Long Shows Lines Glory Direct Witness Ancestor Display Evident Disgrace Succession Ancestry Meanness Sprung Ignominy

Author:Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision.”

Facts Stories Lines Fiction Hair Crosses Logic Intuition Short Story Severe Precision Coordinates

Book:A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation

Source: A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation

“The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and our position, while Russia is advancing and will be before Constantinople in no time! Then the Government will be fearfully blamed and the Queen so humiliated that she thinks she would abdicate at once.”

Thinking Should Government Lines Risk Position Losing Russia Uncertainty Firm Queens Delay Royalty Advancing Prestige Humiliated Constantinople

Author:Queen Victoria

“When children ask you questions about gray hairs, and wrinkles in the face, and sighs that have no words, and smiles too bright to be carved upon the radiant face by the hands of hypocrisy--when they ask you about kneeling at the altar, speaking into the vacant air, and uttering words to an unseen and in an invisible Presence--when they interrogate you about your great psalms, and hymns, and anthem-bursts of thankfulness, what is your reply to these? Do not be ashamed of the history. Keep steadily along the line of fact. Say what happened to you, and magnify God in the hearing of the inquirer.”

“Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.”

War Lines Violence Fronts Domestic Violence

Book:Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot

Source: Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot

“Thousands of men breathe, move, and live; pass off the stage of life and are heard of no more. Why? They did not a particle of good in the world; and none were blest by them, none could point to them as the instrument of their redemption; not a line they wrote, not a word they spoke, could be recalled, and so they perished--their light went out in darkness, and they were not remembered more than the insects of yesterday. Will you thus live and die, O man immortal? Live for something.”

Men World Light Moving Dies Lines Darkness Heard Stage Instruments Breathe Yesterday Redemption Remembered Immortal Spokes Insects Particles Usefulness Stages Of Life Good In The World

Author:Thomas Chalmers

“So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently.”

“All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.”

Force Lines Drinking Alcohol Weakening

Author:Beatrice Webb

“History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.”

“You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.”

People Mind Ideas Soul Body Sides Lines Committed Mind Body

Author:Bess Myerson

“The moral government of God is a movement in a line onwards towards some grand consummation, in which the principles, indeed, are ever the same, but the developments are always new - in which, therefore, no experience of the past can indicate with certainty what new openings of truth, what hew manifestations of goodness, what new phases of the moral heaven may appear.”

May God Government Past Heaven Lines Moral Principles Movement Development Goodness Opening Certainty Manifestation Phases

Author:Mark Hopkins

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