Red Lines Quotes

• If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will be yours

  James Jones

  Eye, This Life, Glances

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• That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?

  Sean Penn

  Men, Thinking, Differences

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• What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power in Nature? Not one power, but two?

  Terrence Malick

  War, Heart, Sea

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• got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor's been.

  Tori Amos

  Suicide, Self Harm, Boys

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• I didn't set a red line, the world set a red line

  Barack Obama

  World, Lines, Red

  "What Does America Think Of President Obama's 'Red Line?'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 4, 2013.

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• They dashed on towards that thin red line tipped with steel.

  William Howard Russell

  Red Lipstick, Steel, Lines

  On the Russians charging the British, in 'The British Expedition to the Crimea' (1877) p. 156. Russell's original dispatch to The Times, 25 October 1854, printed 14 November 1854 read: 'That thin red streak tipped with a line of steel'

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• Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

  Neil Gaiman

  Civilization, Library, Red

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• The black line is carbon emissions to date. The red line is the status quo - a projection of where emissions will go if no new substantial policy is passed to restrain greenhouse gas emissions.

  David Roberts

  Carbon Emissions, Black, Lines

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• [Barack] Obama can draw lines for himself and his country, not for other countries. We have our red lines, like our sovereignty, our independence, while if you want to talk about world red lines, the United States used depleted uranium in Iraq, Israel used white phosphorus in Gaza, and nobody said anything. What about the red lines ? We don't see red lines. It's political red lines.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Israel, Iraq

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Hero, Soul, Lines

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• Ukraine is the instrument for Russia to test the West's 'red lines'

  Lilia Shevtsova

  Russia, Ukraine, Lines

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• Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Light, Israel, Iran

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• The curly red lines across the African deserts had the fascination of a magnet, and I hoped fervently that the pioneers who were writing their names over the blank spaces, would leave just one small desert for me.

  Rosita Forbes

  Writing, Names, Space

  Rosita Forbes (1928). “Adventure”

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• When I was released by the Americans I read historian Trevor Roper's book, 'The Last Days of Hitler'. Throughout the book like a red line, runs an eyewitness report by Hanna Reitsch about the final days in the bunker. I never said it. I never wrote it. I never signed it. It was something they invented. Hitler died with total dignity.

  Hanna Reitsch

  Running, Book, Finals

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• Sharks attack surfers because they look like a seal. Apparently, when you're layng on your board and you have your arms and legs hanging off, from underneath you look like a seal. So I just got a picture of a seal and put a red line through it and put it underneath my board.

  Henry Cho

  Sharks, Red, Boards

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• Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge. Such rites demand, if they are to be meaningful at all, a certain amount of time spent precisely on the Red Line, where you can lean over the manicured putting green at the edge of the precipice and see exactly nothing.

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Meaningful, Racing, Training

  "Once a Runner: A Novel". Book by John L. Parker, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.

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• I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous. I really had a blast. We were all kind of thrown into the woods and we didn't have any of the modern conveniences that we take for granted. Learned how to survive without anything.

  Adrien Brody

  Military, Real, Exercise

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. July 30, 2004.

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• Being in the flow of play, always follow the puck and be set early. It's something you don't think about because you think you have all those little things mastered when you get to [the NHL]. It comes back to being ready for any shot, no matter where it is from the [centre] red line in, and always having your stick on the ice. It's a subtle difference that makes you feel so involved in the game and it's really helped me.

  Jake Allen

  Thinking, Differences, Nhl

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• I have a red line against the Americans.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Lines, Red

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• It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!

  Joey Santiago

  Waiting, Red Lipstick, Lines

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• Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clear about the red lines for reconciliation, accept the constitution, lay down their weapons, cut their ties with al Qaeda and essentially become productive or at least participating members of society in that regard.

  David Petraeus

  Cutting, Ties, President

  Interview with Jennifer Griffin, www.foxnews.com. August 25, 2010.

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• Lie beside me. Let me see the division of your pores. Let me see the web of scars made by your family's claws and you their furniture. Let me see the wounds that they denied. The battle ground of family life that has been your body. Let me see the bruised red lines that signal their encampment. Let me see the routed place where they are gone. Lie beside me and let the seeing be healing. No need to hide. No need for either darkness or light. Let me see you as you are.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Healing, Light

  Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Knopf

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• What happened in Syria was, President [Barack] Obama had made a statement announcing what he called his "red line": You can't use chemical weapons, you can do anything else but [use] chemical weapons.

  Noam Chomsky

  President, Lines, Weapons

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• As long as Muslims cross this red line - if they commit crimes, if they start beating up women, if they start the genital mutilation, if they start to commit other crimes and honour killings as they unfortunately do in Western Europe many times - if they do that, I believe we should expel them, the same day if possible, from our country.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, Believe, Europe

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• Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.

  Leon Panetta

  People, Political, Trying

  "A Whole New Era". Interview with Lois Farrow Parshley, foreignpolicy.com. September 17, 2012.

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