Lines Quotes - Page 62

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.

To line only for some unknown future is superficial.

Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.

The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God

Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness

Stretch a hand to one unfriended And thy loneliness is ended.

As far as I'm concerned, there is no line between high art and pop art, and there should be no line.

It’s making a statement about what life is, really. And I’m going to end the line with it.

Many of my personal enemies picture me as a cold type - a person who acts according to a certain line, a calculating type.

in darkness and in hedges I sang my sour tone and all my love was howling conspicuously alone.

The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed solitude, is an act of faith: it assumes the presence of humanity: world and self are generated from within: loneliness is courted, not feared. To write a letter is to be alone with my thoughts in the conjured presence of another person. I keep myself imaginative company. I occupy the empty room.

The line between seduction and prostitution is very blurred, and deep down, everyone knows it.

I enjoy the fact that, as a gay man, there's relatively little pressure on me to act like a grown-up, but also I see the pitfalls that we're susceptible to, addiction, isolation, loneliness, mental illness, not to mention the embarrassing fashion choices.

The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

People who have at least three or four very close friendships are healthier, have higher wellbeing, and are more engaged in their jobs. But the absence of any close friendships can lead to boredom, loneliness, and depression.

A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

I'm attacking the basket more. Because I'm more comfortable on the line, that's an area I want to get to.

In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for the archaic, and the canon of beauty.