In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“There was no such thing as a straight line until mathematicians invented one.” — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share Image
God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely. — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked. — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
“history only moves forward in a straight line when we learn from it. Otherwise it loops past the same mistakes over and… — Jennifer Latham Copy Share Image
“It is the same with mathematics, which would certainly not have arisen if it had been known from the beginning that in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Style is a continuum. Style never changes. It's a straight line. It's a refinement of the same vocabulary. Style takes you from… — Ralph Rucci Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its… — Fritz Todt Copy Share Image
When we talk about the rise of tribalism, I think the evolution of media in the '90s and beyond is a huge… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
“When the dancer only moves in a straight line but still manages to travel from one side of the stage to the… — Ade Bozzay Copy Share Image
“Creativity's too big a pill; the truth's too hard to swallow. Sprinkle sugar in a straight line and we'll all inhale and… — Kelby Losack Copy Share Image
Maybe time is nothing at all like a straight line. Perhaps it's shaped like a twisted doughnut. But for tens of thousands… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll… — David Almond Copy Share Image
I should have guessed you were Jace's sister," he said. "You both have the same artistic talent." Clary paused, her foot on… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Your goal is too far off to have a straight line of sight to it, but I’m going to need you to… — Chip Gaines Copy Share Image
“In the various arts, and above all in that of writing, the shortest distance between two points, even if close to each… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I do not believe in eternal progress, that we are growing on ever and ever in a straight line. It is too… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The past is an interpretation. The future is on illusion. The world does not more through time as if it were a… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Tulliver had lived thirteen years with her husband, yet she retained in all the freshness of her early married life a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Ahead of them lay an expressway access road. Except that there were no guardrails or markings. No road signs either. And no… — Kai Meyer Copy Share Image
“There is a mixture of humor with drama in this part of the ceremony as well. When the old man staggered out… — Anthony Seeger Copy Share Image
“NOTE: Practice your most effective relaxation techniques before you begin these exercises (refer to Chapter 6 if necessary). People are better able… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
“A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“From The Self-Mover's Bible; The Longest Distance between Two Points is a Shortcut Most of us look at a map and instinctively… — Jerry G. West Copy Share Image
Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“And across these mean Dwellings of Black Step Lane, where as a Boy I dwell'd for a while, the Shaddowe of my… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“He's wearing black jeans and an amazingly hot black biker jacket over a white T-shirt.His normally casual bedhead is not perfectly styled… — Leah Rae Miller Copy Share Image