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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
The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God
— Antonio Gaudi
The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.
— Friedensreich Hundertwasser
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
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
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
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
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
The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The straight line is ungodly.
— Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.
— Stefan Zweig
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
The political spectrum is not a straight, bi-polar line. It's a circle.
— T. Rafael Cimino
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
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
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
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 straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.
— Friedensreich Hundertwasser
The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.
— Theodor Adorno
Straight is the line of Duty, Curved is the line of Beauty, Follow the straight line, thou shall see. The curved line ever follow thee.
— Hilary Mantel
Even if you set a long-term goal, that doesn't mean it's a straight-line journey. Often, there are problems and obstacles along the way.
— Fred DeLuca
Life is a simple straight line between birth and death. The problem is you only realize it at the end of the line.
— Debasish Mridha
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
— Madeleine L'Engle
A circle in a straight line is the mathematical symbol of miracle.
— Ludwig Feuerbach
God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely.
— Joseph Alexander Leighton
A straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
— Maria Edgeworth
The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.
— Giambattista Vico
The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
— Marion Milner
Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.
— Albert Einstein
For authors, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line only if you are writing the letter I.
— Michael A. Arnzen
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
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
I can walk the line, if it ain't too straight.
— Joe Diffie
The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.
— Antoni Gaudi
Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.
— Ani DiFranco
Are we nothing but heel skin and blisters? Traveling a straight line to the end of our lives?
— Ramona Ausubel
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
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
As the crow flies-a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.
— William Henry Maule
You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.
— Abe Burrows
You're in a straight line, buddy-boy, and it doesn't lead anywhere ... except maybe the grave.
— Edward Albee
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
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
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
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
It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
— Ibrahim Babangida
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
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
Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.
— Chuck Palahniuk
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
— Will Durant
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
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
The straightest line between a straight distance is two points.
— George Carlin
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere. - Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers
— Kim Edwards
The path to success is not a straight line.
— Harley King
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