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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

I can't imagine a more loyal employee to have than somebody who's laid their life on the line for their country. — James A. Winnefeld Jr.

I like to smoke a pipe, because it's the punch line indicator. Whenever I take a hit of the pipe, you should be laughing. — Mitch Hedberg

Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music was just a very thin line between the two. — Percy Sledge

We'll know for the first time If we're evil or divine We're the last in line. — Ronnie James Dio

Reality is the only place you can deal from. If you're still worrying about the way things should be, you haven't even approached the starting line. — Georgette Mosbacher

You call that caring?! I call it a line of crap! The only thing you cared about begins with an "F" and ends with me losing my virginity! — Maggie Adams

I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work. — Andrew Carnegie

There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination. — William S. Burroughs

Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book. — Italo Calvino

On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. — Chuck Palahniuk

Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The clouds roll on. Silent as sleepwalkers the clouds keep coming from infinity bank behind bank and line after line, and change colors on the earth. — Rolf Jacobsen

The bottom line is that you have to choose who you are going to commit to
that's the foundation of true love, not the lack of other options — Stephenie Meyer

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line. — Major Owens

There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside, their hearts are ripping to shreds. — Jandy Nelson

They shoot the white girl first. — Toni Morrison

I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story. — Walter Kirn

You can't play any defense if the other team is on the foul line. — Mike Krzyzewski

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line. — Mickey Kaus

Bitch."
"Slut."
"Whore."
"Cunt."
I kicked Joyce in the shin. I draw the line at cunt. — Janet Evanovich

There are times in Annapolis when a governor's support can move an issue over the goal line. — Martin O'Malley

You know something is a hit comedically if you can just call up one of your friends and belt out a line from the show and you both start laughing. — Eric Andre

Certain Stanley Cup traditions remain intact, including the handshake line between players who had been belting one another for a couple of weeks. — George Vecsey

The first clothing line I had was called Very Rue. Then we changed the name and moved to QVC, and the name became A Touch of Rue. — Rue McClanahan

If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have a lot of unfinished drawings. — Raymond Pettibon

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line. — Basil Bunting

The first transatlantic line that enabled ordinary citizens to call between North America and Europe was laid only in 1956. — Steven Johnson

Limit your day to what you feel comfortable with doing - put the rest on the shelf - for further consideration down the line. — Art Hochberg

There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations. — Leigh Hunt

Embrace an effortless a-line silhouette in the seasons must have indigo shades. — Lubov Azria

Overachievers look forward to the finish line, underachievers look back to see who they are beating. — Bobby Hoffman

For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation. — Ken Stott

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line. — Langston Hughes

Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away. — Nancy Pearl

The bottom line is that indifference is really a form of selfishness. — John C. Maxwell

When the ball is on the one-yard line, never risk a fumble. Carry it over yourself. — Robert Ringer

Two girls discover the secret of life
in a sudden line of poetry. — Denise Levertov

Their lives are literally on the line in ways men just don't experience. — Gavin De Becker

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century. — Lewis Mumford

It sounds like a media line, but I'm passionate about thanking the fans for their support. — Tom Felton

Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath. — Stefan Bachmann

The line between stupid teenaged behavior that causes an end to teenaged lives and stupid teenaged behavior that turns into a prank is very thin. Kids — Carolyn McSparren

Play continually creates demands on the child to act against immediate impulse, i.e., to act according to the line of greatest resistance. — Lev S. Vygotsky

If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war. — Muhammad Ali

Remembered pain tightened his mouth into a grim line. The weeks he'd spent looking for her had left permanent scars on his heart. — Tara Janzen

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

Resistance is greatest just before the finish line. — Steven Pressfield

There's a very fine line between anxiety and excitement. If you don't let anxiety stop you, you can nudge it over the line. — Robert Anthony

In a pack sprint to the finish line, a solo rider without allies or associates is a tired & losing one. — Lance Armstrong

It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line. — Yuri Milner

Somewhere along the line, Bob said I'd better begin taking this business seriously, because, whether I liked it or not, I had a career. — Shelley Duvall

The line comes before meaning. — Paul Reps

The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers. — Steve Coogan

Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too. — Stephen Malkmus

I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook, line and sinker. — John Cusack

I would find you down the line with broken wings, pick you up, and swear that you would taste the sky again. — Pleasefindthis

A real miracle's a reminder and a warning that the line that separates the possible from the impossible isn't as firm as we like to think it is. — Dirk Wittenborn

You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life. — Paul Dietzel

The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it. — Sammy Davis Jr.

There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks. — Tsunetomo Yamamoto

The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for. — Lev Grossman

Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items. — Paul Sweeney

Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line. — Walter Scott

Great Gates almighty," HARV said inside my brain. "I go off-line for a few nanos and the whole world goes to DOS. — John Zakour

Someone else's phone rang twice, and was answered by a scowl I could hear all the way over on my end of the line. — Cherie Priest

I am not a fool. This is why Olga was so distraught - because I teetered the line, and most times my left foot was a paperweight clinging to hell. — Rebekah Armusik

I'm sorry I couldn't carry the ball over the finish line, but, man, I did try. — Ann Curry

I read the line over and over as if I might discern the little fires set the flames of an idea licking the page how knowledge burns — Natasha Trethewey

Somewhere along the line, I'd developed a deep, burning dislike for the human race. There seemed to be no cure. — Adrianne Brooks

It don't mean nothing til you sign it on the dotted line. — Richard Marx

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message. — Stephen King

I recruited a Czech kicker, and during the eye exam, when asked to read the bottom line, the kicker replied, Read it? I know him. — Woody Hayes

I'm in the kitchen five days a week, no matter what, and one or two of those days I'm on the line. Not because I have to be, but because I want to be. — Marc Forgione

Nothing is worth putting my health on the line. Not a camera, not a title, nothing. — Marcel Hirscher

I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though. — Elton John

I always want the last line to be really good, which may sound silly, but I want it to be a last pleasing line. — Elizabeth McCracken

I always wanted the ball in my hands with a game on the line, as I think any real competitor does. — Jerry West

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. — William Arthur Ward

Chasing your dreams is like running a race in the dark, you may quit disheartened, not knowing you were one step away from the finish line. — Prerna Kumar

Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you. — Catherine Martin

A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory ... a far-off memory that's like a scattered dream ... i want to line the pieces up ... yours and mine. — Shiro Amano

I suppose you have already informed God that you will require at least three sons to ensure the Tremore line? — Laura Lee Guhrke

God will dare to do the impossible in your life if you dare to step across the faith line. — Kenneth Copeland

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus. — Tom Stoppard

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician. — Abraham Verghese

The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success. — Peter Beinart

Never let your life depend on the competence of someone whose life isn't also on the line. — Brandon Sanderson

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.
[Libraries on the Front Lines, ALA interview 2011] — Neil Gaiman

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards. — Alberto Salazar

I think I'm hornier than most dudes. I'm not a selfish lover - but the bottom line is ... I guess I am horny. I'm insatiable. I can never get enough. — Rude Jude

I hate arrows. They try to tell me which direction to go. It's like "I ain't going that way, line with two thirds of a triangle on the end!" — Mitch Hedberg

Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank even when you are the only person in line. — Rich Hall

Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness — William Carlos Williams

I drew no line between life and art. I was the same on- as offstage. — Patti Smith

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the fellow who can't read a line. — Mark Twain

Then he lifted them out of the wreckage on a line of blue light. — Brandon Sanderson

The bottom line is that it's better to run a workforce on security than insecurity. — Jared Bernstein

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect. — Brian Molko

Walt, as a leader, had envisioned not just what was good for the next year, but what would be needed five or ten years down the line. — Jim Korkis