Quotes by Lines The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. William Shenstone scripturelinesmusical The self is like a pimping blackmailing chauffeur who gets you from here to there on word lines. William S. Burroughs chauffeurslinesself The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance. William Tecumseh Sherman linesexpectationsway 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 bendingforcelines Religion is all based on the mentality of "I'm right", but now today it's moved from even the question of "I'm right and I'm willing to tolerate those who agree that I am right or those who don't disturb me anyway". Now, it's a question of "If you do not accept that I'm right, I have a right to kill you". That is the mentality of religious fundamentalism today. That is the meaning of the kind of terror which we are witnessing today, that everybody is expendable who do not actually physically line up behind me. Wole Soyinka linesreligioustoday In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical. Woody Harrelson linesactorsplay Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. Woodrow Wilson progress-of-societylinespolitical The English never draw a line without blurring it. Winston Churchill linesinspirationwitty Yon grey lines William Shakespeare linesdawnclouds It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance. Winston Churchill adversitylineslooks I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods. Winston Churchill drunklinespeople The line between education and brainwashing is paper thin Yana Toboso brainwashinglinespaper There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks. Yamamoto Tsunetomo gratefullinesheart The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet. Yehuda Berg arrivingdestinationlines Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline? Yehudi Menuhin disciplinelines Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood. Yukio Mishima linesperfectblood I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line. Yukio Mishima one-linelineswriting It’s not about revenues: the fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line. Yuri Milner digitallinesfundamentals Color is enslaved by line, that becomes writing. Yves Klein linescolorwriting I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars. Yves Klein paintingbarslines«115116117118119120121122123124125»
