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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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