Lines Quotes - Page 35

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.

You have the capacity to change the plot line of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember. No matter what has happened up to this point, you have the right and the capacity to be happy. You are an innately creative being, capable of writing a love story worth living.

I never write fewer than sixteen headlines for a single advertisement.

....there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a way that an "end" can be projected by the reader somewhere beyond the right frame. If no such convergence or projection occured to you, then the book's failed for you.

you'll never be lonely if you learn to be friend your self

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest

When we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.

Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things , which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.

There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

The sacred is not in heaven or far away. It is all around us, and small human rituals can connect us to its presence. And of course the greatest challenge (and gift) is to see the sacred in each other.

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. (pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")

I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Through tears and trials, through fears and sorrows, through the heartache and loneliness of losing loved ones, there is assurance that life is everlasting. Our Lord and Savior is the living witness that such is so.

A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. . . . Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden.

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

The line of least resistance is to most people the lifeline.

Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.