50 Crooked Lines Quotes
Following is our list of crooked lines quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about .
Famous Crooked Lines Quotes
Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners. — Rene Crevel
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. — C. S. Lewis
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
The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God — Antonio Gaudi
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. — Tennessee Williams
A tree that is born crooked, its trunk never straightens. — Mexican Proverbs
History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags. — Barack Obama
The world is made of Circles And we think in straight Lines — Peter Senge
You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it. — W. C. Fields
It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked. — B. J. Palmer
Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat. — Patti Smith
A crooked cornstalk can have a straight ear. — American Proverbs
The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser
I always try to think in curves. — Greg Lynn
Magic lives in curves, not angles. — Mason Cooley
Straight Lines Quotes
Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive — Ratan Tata
It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve - the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman. — Oscar Niemeyer
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line — Jorge Luis Borges
Everything in the phenomenal universe is straight line and circle. The horizon, our heads, arms, electrons, the oceans, planets and stars. Their principle function is to radiate. The task of the human being is also to radiate. — Alonzo King
Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards. — William Whewell
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
Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead. — Kara Goucher
The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable. — Charles Bukowski
Now, if you’re an inductivist—or even a Bayesian reasoner—and you don’t know anything about the boiling temperature and what phenomena happen at that temperature, you can join all of those lovely lines into a perfectly diagonal straight line and extrapolate off into infinity. — Naval Ravikant
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
People Writing About Crooked Lines
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 C. S. Lewis |
1957 | 19120 |
 Benoit Mandelbrot |
79 | 834 |
 Antonio Gaudi |
19 | 931 |
 Tennessee Williams |
251 | 2293 |
 Mexican Proverbs |
81 | 102 |
 Barack Obama |
2872 | 19157 |
More Crooked Lines Quotes
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? — C. S. Lewis
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked. — Alfred Nobel
The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked. — Napoleon Hill
God draws straight with crooked lines. — Andrew Greeley
We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture. — Elisabeth Elliot
There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points. — Sun Myung Moon
The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line. — Sayings
It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked. — Unknown
And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one. — Mitch Albom
Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line. — Arthur Miller
By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream — Virginia Woolf
Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine — Plotinus
Try not to make a straight line crooked. — Matthew McConaughey
You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it. — Socrates
Reincarnation is, indeed, the key which unlocks all doors, the universal "combination," before which our manacles fall from our limbs -- the life-line by which the crooked way is made straight. — Shaw Desmond
Probably a lack of concentration. I always hit them during practice. I just need to concentrate. Even though I should a lousy percentage, I beat a lot of teams from the line. You have to have mechanics. But see, what people don't know about my wrists is my wrists don't go all the way back. My wrists are crooked and don't go all the way back. I've been practicing and working on them. You can't do everything good. — Shaquille O'Neal
I DECLARE God is going before me making crooked places straight. He has already lined up the right people, the right opportunities and solutions to problems I haven't had. No person, no sickness, no disappointment, can stop His plan. What he promised will come to pass. — Joel Osteen
God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked. — Horace Mann
Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding man and even of turning his wrong ways into right ways...The feast of Christ the King is therefore not a feast of those who are subjugated, but a feast of those who know that they are in the hands of the one who writes straight on crooked lines. — Pope Benedict XVI
Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines. — Charles Caleb Colton
When you are in the line of your duty, it is like standing in front of a line of posts, and every post is in line. But step one step aside, and every post looks as though it were not quite in line. The farther you get away from that straight line, the more crooked the posts will appear. It is the straight and narrow path of duty that will lead you and me back to the presence of God. — Heber J. Grant
These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, "We'll just follow this cat, and wherever he sits down, we'll build something. — Maureen Johnson
There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of. — Agatha Christie
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