Straight Lines Quotes - Page 6

• Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Positivity, Lines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Linda Allardt (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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• The straight line is ungodly.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Drawing, Lines

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• The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.375

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• Did you know that there are no straight lines in the universe? Life doesn't travel in perfectly straight lines. It moves more like a winding river. More often than not, you can only see to the next bend, and only when you reach that next turn can you see more.

  T. Harv Eker

  Life, Moving, Rivers

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• Our success has not been a continual series of victories. We have had a number of devastating setbacks; how these are handled is the making of a great team... winning does not happen in straight lines.

  Clive Woodward

  Sports, Team, Winning

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• Professor Brown: 'Since this slide was made,' he opined, 'My students have re-examined the errant points and I am happy to report that all fall close to the [straight] line.' Questioner: 'Professor Brown, I am delighted that the points which fell off the line proved, on reinvestigation, to be in compliance. I wonder, however, if you have had your students reinvestigate all these points that previously fell on the line to find out how many no longer do so?'

  Herbert C. Brown

  Fall, Science, Lines

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• I didn't always walk that straight line. I'm not going to say that I'm an angel. But I made some right decisions along the way.

  Marshall Faulk

  Football, Angel, Nfl

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• Stories move in circle.  They don’t move in straight lines.  So it helps if you listen in circles.  There are stories inside stories and stories between stories and finding your way through them is as easy and as hard as finding your way home.  And part of the finding is the getting lost.  And when you’re lost you start to look around and to listen.

  Deena Metzger

  Moving, Home, Circles

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• A straight line can readily be drawn among each of the two series of points corresponding to the maxima and minima, thus showing that there is a simple relation between the brightness of the variables and their periods.

  Henrietta Swan Leavitt

  Stars, Simple, Two

  "Periods of 25 Variable Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud". Harvard College Observatory Circular, vol. 173, (pp. 1-3), 1912.

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• It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest.

  Jan Morris

  Curves, Lines, Facts

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• Four circles to the kissing come, The smaller are the benter. The bend is just the inverse of The distance from the centre. Though their intrigue left Euclid dumb There's now no need for rule of thumb. Since zero bend's a dead straight line And concave bends have minus sign, The sum of squares of all four bends Is half the square of their sum.

  Frederick Soddy

  Zero, Distance, Math

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• It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.

  Wes Montgomery

  Believe, Thinking, Play

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• Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Clouds, Circles, Mountain

  Michael Frame, Benoit Mandelbrot (2002). “Fractals, Graphics, and Mathematics Education”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

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• It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Distance, Historical, Lines

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• The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.

  W. Clement Stone

  Law, Lines, Matter

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• So tired of this straight line, and everywhere you turn
  There's vultures and thieves at your back
  The storm keeps on twisting, you keep on building the lies
  That you make up for all that you lack.
  It don't make no difference, escaping one last time
  It's easier to believe
  In this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness
  That brings me to my knees.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Song, Sweet, Lying

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• A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?

  George Iles

  Science, Curves, Roots

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• Jimmy Connors likes the ball to come at him in a straight line, so that he can hit it back in another straight line. When it comes to him in a curve, he uses up half of his energy straightening it up again.

  Clive James

  Curves, Tennis, Energy

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• Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities.

  Arianna Huffington

  Lines, Possibility, Inspiring Business

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• The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Creativity, Creative, Lines

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• Maybe time is nothing at all like a straight line. Perhaps it's shaped like a twisted doughnut. But for tens of thousands of years, people have probably been seeing time as a straight line that continues on forever. And that's the concept they based their actions on. And until now they haven't found anything inconvenient or contradictory about it. So as an experiential model, it's probably correct.

  Haruki Murakami

  Years, People, Forever

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 23, 2016

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• In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines 74 lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.

  Ludwig Bemelmans

  Girl, Two, Paris

  1939 Madeline.

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• Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

  John Tillotson

  Truth, Lines, Way

  John Tillotson (1748). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...”, p.16

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• We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Thinking, Mazes

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Life is made up of circles ... Life is not a straight line ... And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever.

  Patricia MacLachlan

  Life, Past, Circles

  Patricia Maclachlan (2009). “Baby”, p.108, Yearling

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