Lines Quotes - Page 74

Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people raised in a faith-based culture will stick with their religion and be lost to science.

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry rivulets of my soul Searching for legends of five thousand scrolls. With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores. The fifth purifies my flesh and bone. With the sixth I commune with the immortals. The seventh conveys such pleasure I am overcome. The fresh wind blows through my wings As I make my way to Penglai.

I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.

If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.

For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat, looked around, and spoke. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely. "Everything must have a purpose?" asked God. "Certainly," said man. "Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God. And He went away.

Africans believed that the woman's bare breast represented God, the circle of life and the moral cleanliness of human beings.

I consider myself to be a relatively helpful person, and there's an interesting line when hope starts to become the way you actually mask or hide from what's really happening.

No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.

Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God.

Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.