The world is made of Circles
And we think in straight Lines — Peter Senge
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
There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure — Roger Scruton
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
But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details. — Francisco Goya
Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line. — Sol LeWitt
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. — C. S. Lewis
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line — Jorge Luis Borges
On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut. — Neal A. Maxwell
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory. — Benoit Mandelbrot
he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was all-important. — Theo van Doesburg
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
Short Straight Lines Quotes
Curve: The loveliest distance between two points. — Mae West
Being a square keeps you from going around in circles. — J. Vernon McGee
The most beautiful curve is a rising sales graph. — Raymond Loewy
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away. — Robert Henri
A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness. — Joan Miro
A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle. — Mark Twain
Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same. — Heraclitus
Extracurricular Parallel to none I am perpendicular — Nicki Minaj
Even abstract shapes must have a likeness — Willem de Kooning
Straight Lines Image Quotes
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Lines For Quotes
You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach. — Jon Stewart
A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction. — Bobby Seale
Take 7 emcees put em in a line
And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme
It'll take 7 more before I go for mine
And that's 21 emcees ate up at the same time. — Rakim
The best listeners listen between the lines.
Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit for a king. — Giambattista Bodoni
There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago. — Lewis Grizzard
We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines. — Axl Rose
The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words "I did not have time".
We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it’s dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying. — Brené Brown
The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench. — Billy Sunday
I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey. — David Bowie
The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos. — Jim Hightower
Straight Edge Quotes
I'm straight edge, and that means I'm better than you. — CM Punk
I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving. — Marlon Brando
Don't let these tattoos fool you. I'm straight edge. I'm a man of great discipline; I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs... my addiction is wrestling - my obsession is competition. Discipline. My name is C...M...Punk. — CM Punk
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.
The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight. — Calvin Seerveld
I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs... my addiction is wrestling - my obsession is competition. — CM Punk
Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you. — Billy Collins
Straight roads do not make skillful drivers
We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture. — Elisabeth Elliot
NO, I will not accept straight edge into my life! — Dolph Ziggler
I'd much rather talk to a 30-year old that survived rough times in their lives [practicing Straight Edge] rather than someone that was harmed by a culture of violence. — Ian MacKaye
Personally I have my own political views and being straight-edge I'm happy to talk about that, but the music that always meant the most to me, was more emotional. — Davey Havok
Long Lines Quotes
Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me. — Marilyn French
I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women. — Erykah Badu
A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere. — Bobby Seale
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.
Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value. — Rabindranath Tagore
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. — Muhammad Ali
For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit?s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit?s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there. — Ernest Hemingway
If they give you lined paper, write the other way.
You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat. — Mickey Mantle
I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day and one of my players said, 'Every time I hear that song I have a bad game.' — Jim Leyland
Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are so many witnesses against you; and this grand display of their tarnished glory but serves to make your ignominy more evident. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line. — Alice McCall
Horizontal Lines Quotes
Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that the equilibrium of any particular aspect of nature rests on the equivalence of its opposites. — Piet Mondrian
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
Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat. — Patti Smith
Art is a line around your thoughts.
We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal line: next, next, next. But if you do that, you never investigate the vertical line - the depth of the piece. — Simon McBurney
I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one. — Donald Barthelme
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think. — Agnes Martin
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
When the elements are arranged in vertical columns according to increasing atomic weight, so that the horizontal lines contain analogous elements again according to increasing atomic weight, an arrangement results from which several general conclusions may be drawn. — Dmitri Mendeleev
A vertical line is dignity. The horizontal line is peaceful. The obtuse angle is action. That's universal, it is primary. — Janet Collins
My affection for CinemaScope initially was my affection for the horizontal line as I learned it from having been apprenticed to an architect who was someone named Frank Lloyd Wright. — Nicholas Ray
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy. — Charles Gounod
Parallel Lines Quotes
The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel. — Pierre Berton
As lines, so loves oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet. — Andrew Marvell
In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder. — Pearl S. Buck
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
We are all bumbling along,side by side, week in, week out, our paths similar in some ways and different in others, all apparently running parallel. But parallel lines never meet. — Mary Lawson
When I began to play Frisbee, I would play with my friends and we used to do difficult things. We would stand in front of lines of trees that were parallel. We would spend hours throwing frisbees back and forth between these tight spots. — Frederick Lenz
Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin. — Samuel Garth
For every situation, there's a suitable line from a song
It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between. — William Faulkner
In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder. — Pearl Buck
Parallel lines meet in eternity but
Parallel lives meet for tea — Gary Gach
I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal. — John Burns
Straight 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
Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop
I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop
Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top
Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop. — Phife Dawg
The sari's radiance, vigor and variety, produced by a single straight length of cloth, should give us in the West pause and make us think twice about the zipper, the dart and the shoulder pad. — Naveen Patnaik
Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable. — Vincent de Paul
I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that. — Eminem
I don't care what straight people do, I don't care what gay people do. I don't care what nobody do. That's they business. I just care about what I do. You know what I'm saying? — ASAP Rocky
Be an individual, work hard, study, get your mind straight, and trust nobody. — Tupac Shakur
Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers. — Colin McRae
You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing. — Helene Cixous
Straight Path Quotes
When he saw what drugs or alcohol or unwanted pregnancy did to kids he fell in love with, he realized there had to be a straight path — Catherine Gunsalus Gonzalez
I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view. — Michael York
When great individuals move so marvelously along the straight and narrow path, it is unseemly of us to call attention to the fact that one of their shoelaces is untied as they make the journey. — Neal A. Maxwell
In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way. — Neal A. Maxwell
The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit. — T. Boone Pickens
I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path. — Saadi Shirazi
Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path. — Dean Koontz
The fundamental message of the Wu Tang music is as vast as the ocean in all reality, but it's still a straight path. You can take one lyric and by researching what that lyric is giving out to you, it should give you more than a day's worth of school, maybe three days' worth of school. — RZA
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter. — Nikolai Gogol
We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction. — Joshua Harris
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
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
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
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
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
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
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. — Norman Mailer
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
The song of the curved line is called happiness. — Rene Crevel
The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides. — Archimedes
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I try to be as clear and straight as I can in what I am putting forward. I think people are fed up with politicians where there are lots of bland lines to take. — Liz Truss
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
The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is about two lines of thinking, organization and relationship. One is a straight line, but broken into many fragments, the other is a tortuous line, but continuing indefinitely. — Daniel Libeskind
Energy moves in cycles, circles, spirals, vortexes, whirls, pulsations, waves, and rhythms—rarely if ever in simple straight lines. — Starhawk
My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy, rebuild, destroy again. My rhythm is not the same. My mother moved in a straight line: I go from one extreme to the other. — Louise Bourgeois
Revenge is never a straight line. It's a forest, and like a forest it's easy to lose your way … to get lost … to forget where you came in. — Hattori Hanzo
History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags. — Barack Obama
The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys. — Madeleine L'Engle
One must be able to say at all times--instead of points, straight lines, and planes--tables, chairs, and beer mugs — David Hilbert
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
I want to go down in history in a chapter marked miscellaneous because the writers could find no other way to categorize me In this world where classification is key I want to erase the straight lines So I can be me — Staceyann Chin
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws. — Pat Conroy
Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us. — Stuart Wilde
But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going. — Chris Kyle
Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities. — Arianna Huffington
I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray. — Fernand Leger
Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead of singing, blow your guitar and ring the horn. Hate mathematics, and love eddies. Creation is a bird without a flight plan, that will never fly in a straight line. — Violeta Parra
Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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