Straight Lines Quotes - Page 10

• God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.

  Horace Mann

  Lines, Crooked

  "The Common School Journal", Vol. V, No. 18, September 15, 1843.

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• Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Philosophy

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• If the earth were not round, heavy bodies would not tend from every side in a straight line towards the center of the earth, but to different points from different sides.

  Johannes Kepler

  Different, Body, Earth

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

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

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Cancer, Lines, Up And Down

  "Elizabeth Edwards: John 'made one mistake'" by Mike Celizic, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Successful, Looks, Lines

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• People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

  Dean Kamen

  Mistake, Writing, Simple

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• A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.

  Christian Louboutin

  Heart, Character, Curves

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• Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.

  Eva Zeisel

  Vocabulary, Curves, Design

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• Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

  Terry Pratchett

  Weed, Fear, Lines

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• No single decision you ever made has led in a straight line to where you find yourself now. You peeked down some roads and took a few steps before turning back. You followed some roads that came to a dead end and others that got lost at too many intersections. Ultimately, all roads are connected to all other roads.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Decision, Finding Yourself

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• Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.

  Bruce Lee

  Distance, Two, Simplicity

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish.

  Brian Tracy

  Clear Goals, Focus, Lines

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• Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavours to preserve its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line.

  Isaac Newton

  Lying, Moving, Body

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