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“And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war.”

Children War Ends Lines Wife Fronts Holy Died Bin Laden Compounds Holy War

Author:Peter Bergen

“I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics of my fellow soldiers that day were, in fact, legendary. People like Lori Piestewa and First Sergeant Dowdy who picked up fellow soldiers in harm's way. Or people like Patrick Miller and Sergeant Donald Walters who actually fought until the very end. The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals of heroes and they don't need to be told elaborate tales.”

People Way Needs Firsts Stills Real Ends Facts Lying Lines Hero Capable Ideals Fellows Bottom Soldier Harm Tales Confused Legends Bottom Line Legendary Sergeants Fellow Soldiers

Author:Jessica Lynch

“I'm just aware of what I'm thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium. So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines - technical things which are important, but I don't think they change the way I feel in a scene.”

Thinking Way Feels Important Ends Feelings Lines Rooms Scene Filling Projection Dropping Auditoriums

Author:Bill Nighy

“You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.”

Ends Lines Audience Jokes Curves Straight Lines

Author:Abe Burrows

“The only reason you even start a band is so you can hang out with your friends all the time, but somewhere along the line, it just ends up becoming a job. You were doing it because you were like, 'I never want to have to get a job,' then all of a sudden it becomes the biggest job you could ever imagine.”

Want Ends Reason Jobs Lines Imagine Becoming Band Hanging Out

Author:Pete Wentz

“Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.”

Way Ends Truth Lines Truth Is Straight Lines

Book:The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...

Source: The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...

“Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest - the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country.”

“Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.”

Art Ends Lines Theory Art Is Following Freshness

Book:Tendencies in Modern American Poetry

Source: Tendencies in Modern American Poetry

“A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.”

Men Ends Hands Fall Left Lines Millions Graves Chains Reform Remove Links Ancestor Apes Suspended

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine.”

Ends Lines Infinite Length Indivisible Studs

Book:The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law

Source: The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law

“But we're not God. We're humans, and at the end of the day we have to march to the beat of a certain kind of drum. And if you step outside too far into thinking you're some sort of deity that can transcend law and order, then you've crossed a line.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Kind Ends Law Certain Order Lines Steps Beats The End Of The Day March Deities Law And Order And At The End Of The Day

Author:Ronald Perelman

“I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I’m not sure if that comes across or not.”

Ifs Ends Moments Song Interest Lines Strange Sentences Not Sure Rhyme Interiors Emphasis Rhyming Playing Around

Author:Joanna Newsom

“For - to say a few words on technique - whereas the curved line was used predominantly for reasons of beauty, (Phidias, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rubens) it has been used more and more economically for reasons of truth (Millet, Monet, Paul Cézanne) until it will end as the straight line for reasons of Love. This will enable the art of the future to create an international form; a form understandable to all and vital enough to the expression of a general feeling of love in a monumental way. Such is the future.”

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Author:Theo van Doesburg

“I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.”

Writing Book Ends Artist Next Lines New York Months Summer Stores Opening Writing A Book January Launching Bedding

Author:Genevieve Gorder

“It's very important for the coming times to have a sound economic base and to be as mobile as possible. The energy lines will be shifting strongly as we enter into the end phase of the earth's cycle.”

Important Ends Earth Success Energy Sound Lines Careers Economic Buddhism Cycles Phases Shifting Mobile

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.”

Want War Ends Matter Hard Enough Literature Process Lines Fronts Soldier Destroying

Book:Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches

Source: Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches

“As an actor, I never really had a strategy. I just take projects, as they come. It all comes down to the writing, at the end of the day, for me. I don't care if it's a two-line cameo or the lead of the thing, as long as the project has some weight behind the writing and it's interesting and I think people will enjoy it.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Long Two Ends Care Actors Enjoy Lines Interesting Behinds Projects Weight Strategy Don't Care I Don't Care The End Of The Day Cameos

Author:Chris Vance

“The dynamic is unmistakable: fixed lines for phones have been declining at a three-percent rate for the last several years, while the number of Americans opting for cell phone calling keeps increasing. If you are a fixed line provider this trend means trouble. Many of the fixed mobile convergence strategies under consideration end up utilizing a smart phone or dual-mode VoWLAN/Cellular phone that works like a landline phone in the local area and then converts to cell phone calling.”

“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.”

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Book:Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles

Source: Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles

“there is no gateway to maturity; there is no line that is crossed. Maturity is like a maze, one path leading to another; it is like a great building full of corridors, one turning into another. Did anybody ever reach the end, so there was a clear way ahead, so he could say, now I am rich with knowledge, now I know all the answers?”

Knows Way Ends Wisdom Lines Answers Path Rich Clear Building Maturity Adulthood Mazes Corridors Gateways

Author:Mignon G. Eberhart

“If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you end up paying for that in the long run. You pay for it... with your homeland, or with your soul, or with your artistic vision.”

Ifs Trying Long Soul Ends Running Lines Party Pay Silence Vision Be Good Artistic Your Soul Long Runs Toes Polite Homeland Artistic Vision

Author:Diana Abu-Jaber

“I used to smoke cigarettes, smoke dope, do smack, every f - - thing. First, I couldn't function without it. Then I couldn't do anything with or without it. Then I thought, "This is the end of the line for my fun days."”

Firsts Ends Used Fun Lines Function Smoke Cigarette Dope Smack Cigarette Smoke Fun Day

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kind of forced labor culminating in the production of another soul for God. What kind of a God stands like Lee Iacocca at the end of an assembly line, driving his workers with a greedy 'More! More!' while the automobiles pile up in showrooms and on freeways and in used-car lots and finally junkyards, his only satisfaction the gross production figures at the end of every quarter?”

“I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end.”

Ends Lines Generations Ten Emperor Descendants

Author:Qin Shi Huang

“Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.”

Want Trying Ends Sides Lines Rich Clear Divorced

Author:Bear Grylls

“...while God has done his part in creating a world capable of providing what we need, we have not done our part in the stewardship of it, in seeing that it gets to the end of the line, to the poorest and neediest--the children.”

World Needs Children Ends Done Lines Seeing Creating Capable Providing Stewardship Poorest

Book:Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most

Source: Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most

“the tormented world cries out for internationhood, for co-existence in a harmony of diversity and mutual aid, for an end to self-segregation along secondary or superficial or downright imbecilic lines.”

World Ends Self Lines Existence Cry Diversity Harmony Aids Mutual Superficial Segregation Mutual Aid

Book:Revolution, She Wrote

Source: Revolution, She Wrote

“For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.”

Trying Ends Lines Acting Risk Becoming Series Impression Presentation Becoming More One Line

Author:Ken Stott

“I'm gonna do clothes, but stuff that kids can afford. I want to get into the high fashion world very soon, but the stuff I want to start out with is the small stuff, for the kids, that anybody can afford the Nikes, or the Jordans, Or let's say they can't afford the big brand name clothes, so I would make a lower end line but still high-quality.”

World Want Stills Ends Bigs Kids Names Stuff Lines Quality Fashion Clothes Brands Jordan High Quality Nike Fashion World Small Stuff High Fashion Brand Names

Author:Chris Brown

“If Black women stand strong and our commitment is to ending domination I know that I'm supporting Black males, Black children male and female Black elderly because the bottom line is the struggle to end domination in all its forms.”

Ifs Knows Children Ends Form Strong Black Lines Struggle Commitment Female Males Bottom Black Women Domination Bottom Line Elderly Black Males Stand Strong

Author:Bell Hooks

“The idea of direct action against the evil that you want to overcome is a kind of common denominator for anarchist ideas and anarchist movements. I think one of the most important principles of anarchism is that you cannot separate means and ends. Anarchism requires means and ends to be in line with one another. I think this is in fact one of the distinguishing characteristics of anarchism.”

Thinking Want Kind Mean Important Ideas Ends Facts Action Evil Lines Common Principles Movement Direct Overcoming Characteristics Anarchism Anarchist Common Denominator Direct Action

Author:Howard Zinn

“The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven asporting God to plague his creature, per pro his chosen shits.”

Long Ends God Humanity Heaven Water Lines Existence Forever Goes On Creatures Essentials Chosen Plague God Exists

Book:Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

“I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.”

Should Ideas Ends Lines Revolution

Book:Benito Mussolini: a biography

Source: Benito Mussolini: a biography

“The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new. Most successful businessmen are in that role. 'No' is never perceived as the end of the line. 'No' just means picking a new avenue.”

Want Mean Ends Philosophy Happens Able Lines Roles Successful What You Want Businessman Avenues Successful Business Successful Businessman

Author:Sharon Stone

“What you must understand is oppression does not end with the niggers. It does not end with the poor people, it doesn't end with the women, or the pregnant women. It goes on up the line to the executive who has his bag searched in the airport.”

People Doe Ends Lines Poor Goes On Oppression Bags Executives Pregnant Poor People Airports Pregnant Women

Author:Florynce Kennedy

“Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as links of tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe.”

May Ends Lines Habit Prove Eternal Links Steel Woe Breeze Spiders Trembling Binding Felicity Commencement Deathless

Author:Lydia Sigourney

“As an attorney, I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it very loose, the line of the law so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are nearly always short of blatant theft or cold-blooded murder safely on the right side. That's a daunting thing to realize but true.”

Way Ends Play Law Sides Realizing Lines Deals Century Cold Murder Fixed Strings Theft Marble Attorney Arcs Unchangeable Engraved Cold Blooded

Author:Dean Koontz

“The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.”

Men Mean Ends Strong Lines Cute Adopted Controversy Strong Man

Author:St. Jerome

“I feel satisfaction at the end of the day when I've written a scene that I really like or when I write a good line of dialogue that I read out to my wife or something like that. But there's also days where it's just bloody agony and I go, 'ugh, this is such crap! Why did I think I had any talent?”

Thinking Feels Writing Ends Lines Wife Written Talent Scene Satisfaction My Wife Dialogue The End Of The Day Agony Bloody Crap Ugh

Author:George R. R. Martin

“Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling, and trying to find the truth in a human situation, which will be sketched out by a screenwriter with all the skill that a screenwriter can do; but in the end, that's just the map of the journey. The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.”

Trying Humans Ends Jobs Courses Actors Can Do Lines Acting Situation Journey Divine Skills Profound Telling The Truth Maps Screenwriters

Author:Paul Greengrass

“In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to draw the line.”

Firsts Stills Ends Lines Responsibility Reader Draws Journalist

Author:Michael Pollan

“We are missing the truth. We live in a society that lies and fosters and sells dishonesty at a discount. Remember the line, 'America spells cheese K-R-A-F-T? That does not spell cheese! We tell our kids that as long as it looks good on the outside, don't worry about the inside. Or work hard and you'll be rewarded in the end. That's not necessarily true anymore. We don't tell the truth about certain things. Young people see our hypocrisy. We haven't given them a model to follow.”

People Looks Long Doe Ends Hard Kids America Remember Young Lying Certain Given Lines Worry Missing Havens Hard Work Models Sells Hypocrisy Telling The Truth Spells Cheese Dishonesty Discounts

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“I hate arrows. They try to tell me which direction to go. It's like "I ain't going that way, line with two thirds of a triangle on the end!"”

Way Trying Two Ends Humor Funny Hate Lines Thirds I Hate Arrows Triangles

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.”

People Thinking Firsts Ends Humor Funny Lines Crosses Baseball Cards Wire Finish Line

Author:Jerry Coleman

“I can't do the whole run but I am able to start the race and I will be there at the end when winners cross the line.”

I Can Ends Whole Running Able Lines Race Crosses Winner

Author:Fabrice Muamba

“Today, National Geographic has a membership side with a magazine and some television side, and they generate about a billion dollars in revenue, and they're profitable. And so at the end of the year they have some bottom line profit which they can then reinvest, because they're running it as a not-for-profit in charitable endeavors.”

Years Ends Running Today Sides Lines Business Television Dollars Bottom Profit Billions Magazines Endeavor Revenue Bottom Line Profitable Charitable Membership National Geographic

Author:Steve Case

“If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going to create a big difference down the line in the stability and even the economic potential in the living world. Irreversibly.”

Ifs World Ends Bigs Happens Loses Differences Lines Half Economic Century Species Stability

Author:E. O. Wilson

“I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.”

Knows Ends Water Imagination Lines Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Fisherman Fly Fishing Angling Great Fishing Funny Fishing Funny Fish

Author:Robert Altman

“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

“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

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