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Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life? — Mary Chapin Carpenter

She is a moron and too dumb to menstruate straight.
perhaps the best line from Shooter — Walter Dean Myers

Before long the formed into a circle, and neither of them could imagine being a straight line again, caught in the loneliness of blunt severed ends. — Rita Leganski

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. — Tennessee Williams

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 the same. — Jeanette Winterson

As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line. — Paul A. Baran

My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in a straight line, in its place. — Norman Wisdom

The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it's rarely a straight line. — Eileen Kennedy-Moore

A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry? — George Iles

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line — Jorge Luis Borges

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line. — John Tillotson

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there. — John Piper

Remember, child, life is not a straight line. It cycles. — James Rollins

Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we. — Gloria Steinem

It also meant that whenever a body is not acted on by any force, it will keep on moving in a straight line at the same speed. — Stephen Hawking

Shortest distance between two points is not a straight line - it's a middleman. — Ayn Rand

Don't have every dialog go in a straight line to solve the problem. Let your characters argue, be sarcastic, disagree or joke around. — Dan Alatorre

Draw a straight line and follow it. — La Monte Young

I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs. — David Beckham

The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent. — Benoit Mandelbrot

Life rarely follows a straight line. Success is a process of trying, reacting, and changing. — Ron Lizzi

Revenge is never a straight line. — Hattori Hanzo

In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. — Will Durant

I didn't always walk that straight line. I'm not going to say that I'm an angel. But I made some right decisions along the way. — Marshall Faulk

The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line. — Thomas Hardy

She wanted to cry all the way there, thinking about Neal's sideways symmetrical mouth and the way he could freehand a perfectly straight line. — Rainbow Rowell

Did you suppose that fornication was the straight line upwards that I'd been trying to find? — Tennessee Williams

The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides. — Archimedes

There is a labyrinth which is a straight line. — Jorge Luis Borges

A body needs at least
three points of support,
not in a straight line,
to fix its position,
so Roithamer had written. — Thomas Bernhard

Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead. — Kara Goucher

A crooked stick can still draw a straight line, and a messed-up dude like me can still write about an awesome God. — Jefferson Bethke

Try not to make a straight line crooked. — Matthew McConaughey

The path to success is not a straight line. — Harley King

I think it's fair to say you can't predict a straight line to victory. You know, there'll be good days and bad days along the way. — Dick Cheney

An infinity with God has always been a circle, not a straight line past all your mistakes. — Shannon L. Alder

Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line. — Benoit Mandelbrot

I am a firm believer that there is rarely a straight line between good and evil. — Nicholas Denmon

Change occurs on a continuum and does not move in a straight line. — Sharon Weil

Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive — Ratan Tata

A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle. — Mark Twain

The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. — Andrew Davies

The straight line is ungodly. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. — Victor Hugo

A man who prides himself on going in a straight line through life is an idiot who believes in infallibility. — Honore De Balzac

The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys. — Madeleine L'Engle

There is no straight line to Goodness, to Love, or to God. And thank God, Grace is always retroactive. — Richard Rohr

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn. — C.S. Lewis

And so no force however great can stretch a cord however fine into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight. — William Whewell

I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch. — Pierce Brosnan

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant. — Stefan Zweig

If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key? — Nick Carter

Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities. — Arianna Huffington

History, the way the teachers liked it, was a racetrack, a straight shot from start to finish line; life itself was more of a maze. — Cassandra Clare

There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle. — Swami Vivekananda

The political spectrum is not a straight, bi-polar line. It's a circle. — T. Rafael Cimino

Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate. — Ani DiFranco

You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that. — Abe Burrows

As the crow flies-a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line. — William Henry Maule

The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree. — Confucius

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force. — Isaac Newton

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 follow. — Kelby Losack

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. — C.S. Lewis

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it. — Socrates

Every straight line can be forced into a curve! — Jean Sasson

Are we nothing but heel skin and blisters? Traveling a straight line to the end of our lives? — Ramona Ausubel

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line. — Robert Henri

Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line. — Barack Obama

Nothing moves in a straight line — R. Gregory Lande

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway. — Marilyn Vos Savant

The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God. — Antoni Gaudi

I can walk the line, if it ain't too straight. — Joe Diffie

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development. — Robert Smithson

A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser. — Euclid

It is possible to draw a straight line with a crooked pencil. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When you're a child, you think your family works in a straight line. Then you get older and find out where the curves are. — Brando Skyhorse

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Unless it's a dead-straight short putt, you should focus on a spot somewhere along the line you want to roll the ball on. — Ernie Els

The straightest line between a straight distance is two points. — George Carlin

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer ... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line. — Earle Brown

But I daresay, a lass can't think in a straight line w'out her tea. Sit for a minute. The laird will wait. — Patricia Strefling

Wild animals walked in a straight line, tame ones tended to wander more aimlessly. — Asne Seierstad

There's no straight line to progress. — Barack Obama

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't. — Arthur Eddington

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list. — Chuck Palahniuk

Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line. — Horace Walpole

From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is. — Margaret Kilgallen

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line. — Ibrahim Babangida

Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere. - Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers — Kim Edwards

For authors, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line only if you are writing the letter I. — Michael A. Arnzen

Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order. — Richard Rohr

The rest of his hair was dark and full and healthy, and his part was one long straight line of pinkish scalp, a country road across his head. — Daniel Wallace

Evil forges a tornado.
But goodness battles in a straight line. — Caris Roane

We know there is no progress in a straight line. — Swami Vivekananda

If you consider that a single straight line can be drawn between any two points, one day I'm going to draw a line from him to me or me to him. — Delphine De Vigan

Man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum, like a journey ... — Ayn Rand

You're in a straight line, buddy-boy, and it doesn't lead anywhere ... except maybe the grave. — Edward Albee

The Lord doesn't always take you in a straight line. He tests you sometimes. — Tony Dungy