Lines Quotes - Page 78

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.

For too many women pregnancy is just the start of loneliness and abuse. It is a cruel reality.

I have a Pinterest, and if you look there you'll see the things I really like and adore, have crushes on, and there's a lot of stuff from Riccardo's [Tisci] line on there.

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

If the rest of his foursome are bunched directly behind his ball, or assume the foetal position with their backs to the tee, the golfer is reminded that his drive tends to be erratic. More cruel yet is for his opponent to stand directly in the projected line of flight, as the safest place to be.

We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.

You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire.

We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.

The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

Lonely? Give it to Jesus. The loneliness itself is material for sacrifice.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.

It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.

My mother really was the strength in our family. She would sort of keep us in line and I admired her very much .

...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

Welcome to 'Who's Line Is It Anyway' the show where everything's made up and the points don't matter. That's right the points are just like Canada.

Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.