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“A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.”

Nations Sides Lines Enemy Draws Ugly Maps Civilized Good Friend Best Friend Civilized Nations

Author:Thor Heyerdahl

“So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan's line to him is 'You're fine'. But after you do take sides, it becomes 'Your heart is bad and you know it'.”

Knows Men Heart Long Real Sides Lines Enemy Fine Remains Threat Satan

Book:Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

Source: Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

“If the blessings of our political and social condition have not been too highly estimated, we cannot well overrate the responsibility and duty which they impose upon us. We hold these institutions of government, religion, and learning, to be transmitted, as well as enjoyed. We are in the line of conveyance, through which whatever has been obtained by the spirit and efforts of our ancestors is to be communicated to our children.”

Source: The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster

“There's a very fine line between anxiety and excitement. If you don't let anxiety stop you, you can nudge it over the line.”

Ifs Lines Fine Anxiety Enthusiasm Excitement Fine Lines Nudge

Book:Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want

Source: Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want

“Draw your line in the sand. Make your decision now and start taking action to really live your dream. By not taking bold steps to live your dream, not only are you missing out on fully living, but the world is missing out on the greatness you have to offer. Be bold!”

“The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.”

Turns Lines Deeds Emptiness Words Love Lovelessness

Author:John Piper

“I think what I love most [about writing] is that feeling that you really nailed something. Sometimes with a line you feel that it really captured what it is that you had inside you and you got it out for a stranger to read, someone who may never love you or meet you, but he or she is going to get that experience from that line.”

Thinking Feels Writing May Sometimes Feelings Lines Love You Stranger Captured

Author:Andre Dubus

“Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly.”

Ifs Lines Decision Player Coaches Violent Managers Umpires Profane Coaches And Players

Author:Jim Evans

“Honda opened its first assembly line in Lincoln in November 2001.”

Firsts Lines Assembly November Assembly Line Honda

Author:Mike Rogers

“Even Australians who take a very, very hard line about asylum seekers - and unfortunately there are more than I would like to think - are probably a bit uncomfortable with the kind of treatment that has been meted out to children in detention by the Australian Government, in their name.”

Thinking Kind Children Has Beens Hard Government Names Bits Lines Uncomfortable Treatment Seekers Australian Asylums Detention Asylum Seekers

Author:Malcolm Fraser

“The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.”

Political Lines Middle Yellow Middle Of The Road Armadillos

Author:Jim Hightower

“Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge.”

Made Found Lines Judging Reader Profession Likes Confession Ruthless Between The Lines

Book:Life History and the Historical Moment: Diverse Presentations

Source: Life History and the Historical Moment: Diverse Presentations

“Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.”

Lines Type Code Organisms

Author:Richard Powers

“Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.”

Two Hope Lines Accepting Miracle Wit Dull Pencils

Book:The Poetical works

Source: The Poetical works

“Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.”

Ifs Want Trying Kind Mean Littles Sometimes Force Bits Lines Steps Little Bit Originals Bounds

Author:David Zucker

“I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal.”

Ifs Running Force Goal Lines Views Practice Succeed Practicals Socialism Compromise Progressive Parallels Parallel Lines

Author:John Burns

“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.”

Bits Lines Novel Integrity Shapes Paragraph

Author:Paul Auster

“I want to do a make-up line for men.”

Men Want Lines

Author:Adam Ant

“So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line.”

Challenges Lines Creative Honest Solutions Commitment Bottom Vulnerable Budgets Discussion Compassionate Balanced Bottom Line

Author:James H. Douglas

“I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.”

Character Stories Given Lines Journey Theater Musical I've Learned Plot Gestures

Author:Trey Anastasio

“Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three.”

Three Politics Lines Numbers Behinds Economy Mass Trade Welfare Curtains Gross Inflation Number Three

Author:Joe Walsh

“Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.”

Looks Character Lines Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Jane Straight Lines Austen

Author:Andrew Davies

“The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.”

Lines Economy Discovery Gold Absolutes West Congress Conviction East Providing Pacific Surveys Mississippi Railroads

Book:The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

“It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.”

Want Children Whole Certain Lines Behavior Train Range Let It Go Raising Children Babysitting

Author:Kevin Kelly

“The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.”

Country Bigs Term Lines Company Bottom Bottom Line Short Term Big Companies

Author:Alexandra Paul

“Mexico takes a hard line on immigration, demanding that visitors to her shores enter lawfully, and show her respect during their stay.”

Hard Shows Lines Immigration Shore Mexico Visitors

Author:John Linder

“The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world.”

World Long Helping Today Lines Liberty Tradition Around The World Patriot Freedom And Liberty Long Lines American Patriot

Author:John Linder

“About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper.”

World Art Ends Shows Sports Process Lines Creative Type Paper Wide Architecture Aesthetic Thick Footy

Author:Max Walker

“For those people who don't know what Whiteboy clothing is, it is not a white-supremacy thing. It is a great clothing line that just says, 'Have fun.”

People Knows Fun Lines White Having Fun Clothings White Supremacy Supremacy Clothing Line

Author:Mark Zupan

“My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'”

Ends Bigs Guy Father Lines Hero Smart Tough Like Me Dreamer Socialist My Hero Poland Tough Guy Handbags Cutters

Author:Alan King

“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.”

Film Lines Novel Clear Strikes Mediums Fantastic Broads Subtlety Nuance

Author:William Boyd

“I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.”

Writing Long Lines Pieces Divine Higher Drawing Urges Monkeys

Book:The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber

Source: The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber

“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.”

Mean Art Reason Artist Lines Conflict Majors Sacred Sensibility Abstraction Outlines

Book:The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

Source: The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

“The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great. Yet this abstraction is one which we seem to have adopted almost instinctively at an early stage in our development, not only in Neolithic graffiti but in early Egyptian drawings. And in spite of its abstract character, the outline is responsive to the least tremor of sensibility.”

Source: The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

“Just as a classical dancer repeats the same movements again and again, in order to achieve a greater perfection of line and balance, so Degas repeats the same motifs - it was one of the things that gave him so much sympathy with dancers.”

Order Lines Greater Achieve Movement Balance Perfection Repeats Dancer Again And Again Repetition Motifs Degas

Author:Kenneth Clark

“The story line, the comparisons to this show and the Bible Ends after the names of the characters.”

Ends Character Stories Shows Names Lines Bible Comparison

Author:George Jackson

“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.”

Feels States Church Lines Church And State Crossings Ohio

Author:Eric Williams

“Somewhere along the line common sense should prevail,.”

Should Lines Common Common Sense

Author:Ben Nelson

“Since one never knows what will be the line of advance, it is always most rash to condemn what is not quite in the fashion of the moment.”

Knows Inspirational Moments Lines Fashion

Author:Paul Martin

“Send me no more reviews of any kind. I will read no more of evil or good in that line. Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years .”

Years Kind Evil Lines Reviews Thirteen

Author:Lord Byron

“There's a fine line between being colorful and being an asshole, and I hope I'm still just colorful.”

Stills Lines Fine Colorful Fine Lines

Book:Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick

Source: Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick

“Whose lines are mottoes of the heart,Whose truths electrify the sage.”

Heart Lines Sage

Book:The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors

Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors

“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.”

Facts Social Lines Doubt Civilization Mark Dogma Constructive Advancing Question Mark

Book:Law and the Modern Mind

Source: Law and the Modern Mind

“And the line up for the final of the women's 400 metres hurdles includes three Russians, two East Germans, a Pole, a Swede and a Frenchman”

Inspirational Two Funny Three Lines Finals East Entertaining Athletics Hurdle Frenchmen Bloopers

Author:David Coleman

“. . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.”

Use Lines Sea Honest Rivers Casts Fishes Protection Boat Poison Lakes Fishing Spells Slaughter Bait Dynamite Anglers

Book:Introduction to the Compleat Angler

Source: Introduction to the Compleat Angler

“Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.”

Source: The works of Mr. John Gay: In four volumes. To which is added an account of the life and writings of the author ...

“When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!”

Ifs Way Lines Chance Powerful Sea Rivers Hunger Fishes Boat Meat Lakes Fishing Prize Fisherman Bait Trout Roving

Book:The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:

Source: The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:

“I made a chocolate cake with white chocolate. Then I took it to a potluck. I stood in line for some cake. They said, "Do you want white cake or chocolate cake?" I said, "yes."”

Want Made Said Humor Funny Lines White Chocolate Cake They Said Chocolate Cake Potluck

Author:Steven Wright

“I'm kinda tired. I was up all night trying to round off infinity. Then I got bored and went out and painted passing lines on curved roads.”

Trying Humor Funny Night Lines Tired Rounds Passing Passings Bored Infinity All Night Up All Night

Author:Steven Wright

“As a fan, I'm distraught, but as a cartoonist looking at new vacant spaces in 2400 newspapers, well, behind me, my cats are dancing a conga line.”

Wells Humor Funny Lines Space Behinds Fans Cat Dancing Newspapers Cartoonist Vacant Distraught Congas

Author:Scott Adams

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