History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Did you suppose that fornication was the straight line upwards that I'd been trying to find?” — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Straight lines evidently belonged only to geometry, not to nature and life.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line. — William Henry Maule Copy Share Image
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The shortest distance between two points is the line from me to you.” — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
None of us, no matter how perfect, can claim that the building of a new society and the marshalling of a former… — Jacob Zuma Copy Share Image
“The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
“Third Doctor: A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting” — Robert Holmes Copy Share Image
“As a species, we love to divide things up. We draw a straight line in a map between the Atlantic and Indian… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Stories move in circle. They don’t move in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories inside… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
“I don’t want my ‘part’ taken! I haven’t ‘got’ a part! I hate the stupid geometrical figures by which people try to… — Frances Partridge Copy Share Image
Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“Most of the streets in Buchanwick were paved, but none followed the straight lines most soft-foot towns insisted on toeing. White Hawk… — L.H. Leonard Copy Share Image
Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead… — Violeta Parra Copy Share Image
An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I had a sneaking suspicion that time was not constant, but I guess I could never prove it. I suppose it didn’t… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Strangling fear surged up his throat. Amy, skirts flying, blond hair a gleaming target, was running in a straight line for the… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“Think of something useless, and that's probably what I'll be doing. Listen, Virginia, we need to love the useless. We need to… — Lygia Fagundes Telles Copy Share Image
“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
“But if some mind very different from ours were to look upon some property of some curved line as we do on… — Roger Joseph Boscovich Copy Share Image
“The suggestion that the body really wanted to go straight but some mysterious agent made it go crooked is picturesque but unscientific.… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“He stood naked at the edge of a cliff. THe lake lay far below him. A frozen explosion of granite burst in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Truth is a straight line you sometimes need to curve, you should know that by now.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental. — William Hogarth Copy Share Image
The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life. — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
