Lines Quotes
5107 quotes by 3514 authors
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Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they.…
— William James
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You beg for happiness in life, but security is more important to you, even if it costs you your spine or your life. Your life…
— Wilhelm Reich
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I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.
— Alberto Salazar
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It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where…
— Duke Ellington
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A goal is a dream with a finish line.
— Duke Ellington
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They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
— Charlie Parker
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Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.
— Cesar Chavez
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If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.
— Edward Heath
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There is no longer a clear, bright line dividing America's domestic concerns and America's foreign policy concerns...If we want America to stay on the right…
— William J. Clinton
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The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the competitive nature of…
— David Suzuki
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Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross…
— Ralph Boston
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If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by…
— Richard Nelson Bolles
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If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have…
— Kurt Warner
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting…
— Martha Graham
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What is dance? I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place,…
— Ray Bolger
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If you have the emotion, it infects you and the audience. If you don't have it don't bother; just say your lines as truthfully as…
— Sanford Meisner
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision…
— Al Pacino
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What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
— Jeremy Bentham
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The longer you garden the better the eye gets, the more tuned to how colors vibrate in different ways and what they can do to…
— Marjorie Harris
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