Straight Lines Quotes - Page 8

• God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Circles, Ideas, Return

  Joseph Alexander Leighton (1901). “Typical Modern Conceptions of God: Or, The Absolute of German Romantic Idealism and of English Evolutionary Agnosticism, with a Constructive Essay”

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• "As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.

  William Henry Maule

  Expression, Crow, Lines

  Stokes v. Grissell, 23 L. J. Rep. Part 7 (N. S.), Com. PL 144, 1854.

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• When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it moving now. We do not realize that it moves not in a straight line and that its direction changes constantly.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Moving, Thinking, Mind

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• The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line.

  Frederick Lenz

  Distance, Buddhism, Science

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• Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.

  Joan Jett

  Ladders, Lines, Reach Out

  "Joan Jett Opens Up About Her Biggest Transformation Yet And Looks Back On What Could've Been". Interview with Amy Rose Spiegel, www.buzzfeed.com. September 10, 2013.

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• Relationships are not straight forward. They're not black and white. Sometimes things don't always going in a straight line, and that's okay. Love can be very confusing.

  Danica McKellar

  Black And White, Confusing, Lines

  "Danica McKellar, Olivia d’Abo and Alley Mills Talk THE WONDER YEARS, How the Show Impacted Their Lives, and the 23 Hours of Bonus Features on the DVD". Interview, collider.com. September 23, 2014.

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• One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw to very specific kinds of heroism. Most of us don't get to be Snooki. For most of us heroism has to be in our everyday lives.

  John Green

  Jobs, People, Everyday

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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• Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

  Andrew Davies

  Character, Looks, Lines

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• When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging. I think as long as you keep your mind in the palce where you're actively looking for patterns, you may not be safe, but you're going to feel safe, I think.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Long, Mind

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• This path, this road that is one perfect straight line even if it goes around the world through heat and fog and rain and snow and it's my life I keep thinking. It's my life.

  Deborah Keenan

  Rain, Thinking, Fog

  Deborah Keenan (2011). “Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems”, p.100, Milkweed Editions

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• The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

  Antonio Gaudi

  Men, Lines

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• Giving never moves in a straight line - it always moves in circles.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Moving, Circles, Giving

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• What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Adventure, Winter

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2919, Delphi Classics

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• Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Balance, Lines, Physics

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• It is a simple matter to plant trees in straight lines, but informal groupings will test the sensitivities of the most experienced planter and the smaller the groups the more difficult they are to place.

  Graham Stuart Thomas

  Simple, Tree, Groups

  Graham Stuart Thomas (1979). “Great gardens of Britain”

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• That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles are less than two right angles.

  Euclid

  Fall, Science, Two

  Euclid, Dana Densmore (2002). “Euclid's Elements: all thirteen books complete in one volume : the Thomas L. Heath translation”, Green Lion Pr

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• I think the nerves aspect is a bit of a joke. How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another, most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models too, it wouldn't be the end of the world.

  Edie Campbell

  Fall, Thinking, People

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• I still smile it's not worth the trouble any more for a long time now it's not been worth the trouble the tongue spring goes into the mud I stay like this not thirsty any more the tongue goes back into the mouth it closes it has to make a straight line now it's done I've made the image.

  Samuel Beckett

  Spring, Long, Mud

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• I think it's fair to say you can't predict a straight line to victory. You know, there'll be good days and bad days along the way.

  Dick Cheney

  Good Day, Bad Day, Thinking

  "Diversity's Peace" by Emil Guillermo, www.sfgate.com. October 23, 2001.

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• A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the enemy retreats or bluffs, and above all, is possessed of enormous patience.

  Mao Zedong

  Enemy, Doe, Lines

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• Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

  Alfred Nobel

  Believe, People, Lines

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• The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Inspirational, Forever, Labyrinth

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• We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains perceptible to us only that of the stone, which is not shared by us; and, because of this, sense shows it as by a straight line, always parallel to the tower, which is built upright and perpendicular upon the terrestrial surface.

  Galileo Galilei

  Science, Simple, Towers

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• A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Distance, Science, Two

  Twitter post from May 16, 2016

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• The path of America's development is never a straight line. Sometimes we move in ways that are forwards; sometime that seem back.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, America, Development

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