Lines Quotes - Page 72

The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.

And no matter how good you are you have to work at it. It's non-stop every day, every day. The best the offensive line feels is when the season starts.

There's no way a fighter should fight and put his life on the line, and a promoter makes more money than he makes.

Some movies run off the rails. This one is like the train crash in The Fugitive. I watched it in mounting gloom, realizing I was witnessing something historic, a film that for decades to come will be the punch line of jokes about bad movies.

Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of our feet, shaped by the surfaces they press upon, are landscapes themselves with their own worn channels and roving lines. They perhaps most closely resemble the patterns of ridge and swirl revealed when a tide has ebbed over flat sand

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.

Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.

Drawing is still the bottom line.

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter.

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure.

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it with beautiful clarity.

It is necessary to like loneliness to be photographer

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one wud like to share.

It's dangerous to assume that because a man is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. I am sure that the reason that I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy.

Do not be afraid of Confession! One who is in line to confess himself feels all these things - even shame - but then, when he finishes confessing, he leaves free, great, beautiful, forgiven, [...] happy. And this is the beauty of Confession... Jesus is there...and He receives you with so much love.

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.

I don't use any of the terminology like 'left wing' and 'right wing.' I use language like 'godly' and 'holiness.'

Bottom line: the ‘no upward trend’ has to continue for a total of 15 years before we get worried.