Lines Quotes - Page 49

Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.

Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing.

Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk

the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.

There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

One of my favorite sketches, and a popular comedy formula, is to put someone with a mental handicap in some kind of unlikely situation. For example: The retarded gynecologist, the retarded Jesus, the retarded Osama Bin Laden. It works. It's funny. Inappropriate? I dunno. I feel like I'm a pretty good judge of what crosses the line of good taste being that I am retarded. Socially perhaps, but severly retarded.

I suppose I'm like most coaches now, standing on the sideline hoping somebody asks them a question.

Only when we understand the holiness of God will we understand the depth of our sin.

Pray to God and say the lines.

Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities, but some shapes in nature are so complicated that they are equally complicated at the big scale and come closer and closer and they don't become any less complicated.

Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.

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

When I forget the power of the word, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget the deep relief of telling the truth, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget to look for the holiness all around me, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget why the gospel matters, I read Frederick Buechner.

I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness

I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.

In nature there are few sharp lines

As an artist, the most important feeling is loneliness. So when I say artists need to isolate themselves from society this is what I mean: You have to look for that feeling of loneliness again. Only this way can you have something that is purely your own.

It’s not about revenues: the fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.

But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to love, one carves a space next to oneself to be filled by others - a friend, a lover, a toy poodle, a violinist on the radio.

There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks.

There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.