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150 Straight Line quotes by 131 unique authors

Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight… — Philip Johnson
We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains… — Galileo Galilei
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. — Madeleine L'Engle
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance… — Rachel Johnson
When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did… — Samuel Beckett
If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming… — Brian Tracy
You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that. — Abe Burrows
Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it… — Isaac Newton
Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't. — Arthur Eddington
Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down. — Elizabeth Edwards
If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a… — Christopher Hitchens
People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against… — Erica Jong
People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of… — Dean Kamen
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… — Norman Mailer
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of… — Kelly Miller
I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't… — Daniel Radcliffe
Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway. — Marilyn vos Savant
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… — Pat Conroy
Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a… — Shannon Hale
A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line. — Robert Henri
Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known… — Victor Hugo
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… — C.S. Lewis
Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all… — Jeanette Winterson
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is… — Milan Kundera
To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry… — Angela Carter

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