Lines Quotes - Page 77

Between the villages of Aubiere and Romagnat in the ancient Province of Auvergne there is an old road that comes suddenly over the top of a high hill. To stand south of this ridge looking up at the highway flowing over the skyline is to receive one of those irrefutable impressions from landscape which requires more than a philosopher to explain. In this case it is undoubtedly, for some reason, one of exalted expectation.

Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.

Holiness does not consist in doing uncommon things, but in doing every thing with purity of heart.

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.

Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without.

I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize. That light shines into the act of life for only the briefest moment - perhaps only a matter of seconds. Once it is gone and failed to grasp its offered revelation, there is no second chance. One may have to live the rest of one's life in hopeless depth of loneliness and remorse. In that twilight world, one can no longer look forward to anything. All that such a person holds in his hands is the withered corpse of what should have been.

I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.

… Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like this, in line, always identical, innumerable, bringing nothing!

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines.

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

Reality is the only place you can deal from. If you're still worrying about the way things should be, you haven't even approached the starting line.

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.

It's really difficult trying to find the line where you don't piss anybody off.

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

The first thing you have to do is understand what success looks like. And to understand what success looks like you have to understand the intent. If you understand that intent is to make sure the sea lines are secure, then suddenly bombing Kosovo makes sense, because you don't want Serbia to reemerge as a major power.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

Everything you say; every thought you entertain; and everything you do has a direction, which serves as an advance or a retreat in respect to your pursuit of excellence. Everything, regardless of size or intent, has bottom-line consequences; therefore, everything counts - this is the golden rule of excellence.

The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.

Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.

One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.