Lines Quotes - Page 42

Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.

I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.

Loneliness is more painful than being hurt

There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line.

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

I've got a clear line between work and real life.

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

I've always been an admirer of women who walk the line of being very feminine and powerful at the same time. That has always been my archetype because too many powerful women, I fend intimidating and frightening, and I never want to scare anybody. I want to be warm and cuddly and yet, powerful at the same time.

Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of like exhibitionism in private. And there's also a strange loneliness, and a desire to have some kind of conversation with people, but not a real great ability to do it in person.

God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on.

Winning friends begins with friendliness.

It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.

I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive.

Well, I know about loneliness. I won't talk about it, but I was very lonely after the war. I know what it feels like to spend a whole weekend all by yourself and no one wants you at all.

There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed is another contradiction-how can we keep the bonds of our humanness and still venture gladly and purposefully into the absolute loneliness of eternity?

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

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