Top 100 A Thin Line Quotes
#1. There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.
Larry Mullen Jr.
#2. There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth.
Leo Durocher
#3. The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
John Steinbeck
#4. Sometimes there is a thin line separating orthodox zeal from apostasy,' said Father Lenar Hoyt
Dan Simmons
#5. It's a thin line between what we're calling acceptable and not acceptable. As a leader, you're supposed to know when not to cross it. But how do you know? Does the army teach us how to control our emotions? Does the army teach us how to deal with a friend bleeding out in front of you? No.
David Finkel
#6. There's a thin line between saving someone and helping them destroy themselves
Lara Zielin
#7. There is a thin line between confidence, and arrogance. Sadly those people who have no confidence often confuse the two when confronted with a person who possesses belief in themselves.
Sai Marie Johnson
#8. Has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.
Jesse Jackson
#9. There is always just a thin line separating deep faith from intolerance,
Haruki Murakami
#10. Most of our love is shabby stuff, but there is always a thin line of gold, the bit of pure love on which all the rest depends
and which redeems all the rest.
Iris Murdoch
#11. There's a thin line between perversion and love.
Ryohgo Narita
#12. You know there is a thin line between love and hate. Maybe you loved me and didn't realise
Kirsty Moseley
#14. I know," he said quietly. "But I also know there's a thin line between good and evil. There's a gray area, one we all step into.
J.M. Darhower
#15. There is a thin line of me, wavering and not strong, that wants to learn the language of beasts and water and night.
Jeanette Winterson
#16. The problem is the difference between want and need is a thin line called self-control.
K. Bromberg
#17. I didn't know that there was a thin line between ignorance and arrogance.
Faraaz Kazi
#18. There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma Bombeck
#19. Good units walk a thin line between indiscipline and ineffectiveness. Ignore the rules too often and you've got a mob, but enforce the rules too strictly and you've got a herd.
Henry V. O'Neil
#20. There's a thin line between genius and bottom-barrel stupidness. I hover delicately on a tightrope between the two, wondering where I'll land if I'll ever fall.
Suzanne Crowley
#21. There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage ... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.
Ehud Barak
#22. It is my mission in life,
to convince you,
that it is merely a thin line
that separates
a real life
from a fantastic one...
Jose N. Harris
#23. So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around.
Alan Thicke
#24. There is a thin line between the policeman and the criminal. The best cops are always crossed. The best cops are the ones who are able to think like criminals. But for a quirk of fate, they might have been criminals.
William Friedkin
#25. When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.
Vitruvius
#26. There's a thin line between love and hate. Maybe you're confusing your emotions.
Simone Elkeles
#27. There's a thin line between narcissism, even if it's a healthy narcissism, and entertainment.
Richard Lewis
#28. I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.
Rani Mukerji
#30. I'm afraid you may have to put up with some more," I said, looking at my test tube. A thin line of precipitate had formed between the antiserum and the sample from the crime scene. "It looks like it's human blood." Deborah
Jeff Lindsay
#31. There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos ...
Rita Mae Brown
#32. I found him carefully studying me, his lips in a thin line. "Has anyone ever taken care of you?" he asked quietly.
"No." I'd long since stopped feeling sorry for myself about it.
Sarah J. Maas
#33. But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.
Warren Zevon
#34. there is a thin line between losing yourself in God and losing your mind. Two
Elif Shafak
#35. Handling a painful situation in a comedic way is truly the funniest. That is extremely real to me and not kind of clownish. There is a thin line though; you can't overdo it.
Will Ferrell
#36. There's always a thin line between life and death. I am somewhere in between, walking to my destination.
Aishah Madadiy
#37. A thin line between the haters and the ones who love us.
A thinner line from the freedom and the foul judges,
In the streets where the snake niggas hold grudges.
Intelligent Hoodlum
#38. It's a thin line between paper and hate,
Friends and snakes, nine millis and thirty-eights,
Hell or the pearly gates ... I was destined to come,
Predicted, blame God, He blew breath in my lungs.
Nas
#39. They say there is a thin line between losing yourself in God and losing your mind.
Elif Shafak
#40. There's a thin line baby. A thing line between love and hate. -Cage York
Abbi Glines
#41. [T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.
Amit Chaudhuri
#42. A thin line separates destiny from coincidence.
T. J. Stiles
#43. Maybe the guy loves a good bitch - but you're treading a thin line between attractively bitchy and psycho.
Tarryn Fisher
#44. There is a thin line between self-love and self-hate. When you are at the self-hate side, make sure to cross the line and stay away from it forever.
Merriam Rammila
#45. But my mind is like a thin line; it travels badly. I go from thought to thought but not with logic, and I forget things [ ... ]
William Goldman
#46. There's a thin line between life and death. It's God's Grace that shows us how fragile we all are.
Timothy Pina
#48. There's a thin line between destruction and creation.
Oliver Jeffers
#49. The Naga laughed softly, 'There's a thin line that separates courage from stupidity.'
'And that line is only visible in retrospect, my friend. If I'm successful, people will call me brave. If I fail, I will be called foolish. Let ,me do what I think is right. I'll leave the verdict to the future.
Amish Tripathi
#50. The La Brea Tar Pits of asshole-ism." Noah pressed his lips into a thin line and gave a mock sympathetic nod. "They claim many each year.
Stacey Rourke
#51. But she believed there was a thin line between accepting one's fears and giving in to them altogether.
John Corey Whaley
#52. There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky.
Big Sean
#53. In time, you'll see a thin line between friend and rival.
Between you and me: stupidity and men's bravado.
Ka
#54. There is a thin line between the impossible and the possible - that is determination.
Ogwo David Emenike
#55. There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.
Julian Bond
#56. There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.
Richard Pryor
#57. Humour is the best weapon to fight any battle.
But there is a thin line between humour and humiliation and beware not to cross it.
Girish Kohli
#58. The Girauds' child was looking more and more like a problem.
Luke pressed his lips into a thin line. When she'd leaned in the stagecoach blazing with fervor over what was in the arcane books, it had taken all his willpower not to throw a bolt of magic to stop her heart.
Ann Gimpel
#59. There's a thin line between an uncertain 'Yes' and a certain 'No' known as 'lame indecisiveness'.
Aniruddha Sastikar
#60. If this was love, it felt different than she'd imagined it would, walking a thin line between passion and terror. It was Romeo and Juliet. It was Wuthering Heights. And Val was left petrified from the boiling intensity of it.
Nenia Campbell
#61. No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.
Agnetha Faltskog
#62. 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
#63. Anthropologist Mary Douglas (1991) examines the very thin line separating a joke from an insult: a joke expresses something a community is ready to hear; an insult expresses something it doesn't want to consider.
Henry Jenkins
#64. You tread a precariously thin line between being charmingly headstrong and insufferably pigheaded.
Ransom Riggs
#65. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.
Cynthia Heimel
#66. There is a whole genre of funny travel writers - that's very popular. There's Bill Bryson and people who follow that route and sell travel writing through making people laugh. It's a very difficult group to take. The line between comedy and mockery is sometimes a bit thin.
John Gimlette
#67. There's a very thin line between rightfully protesting, and protesting so much that it becomes clear you're trying to hide something.
Aimee Carter
#68. There is a very thin line between fighting for what you believe to be right and becoming that which you are fighting against.
Mark Sheldon
#69. 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
#70. I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.
Mary Kingsley
#71. 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
#72. There was a whole, sprawling world underneath us, filled with ugly, vicious, beautiful people. The line between the two places was thin, hardly a separation, and both ran on pain and blood and fear and death and joy and music.
But for now, the sunset was enough.
Brenna Yovanoff
#74. My mother was a stout woman with a man's name - Billie. She was plain-faced with honest eyes - no black grease by the lash line, no blue powder on the lids, eyebrows not plucked up high and thin.
Charles M. Blow
#75. But you of all people should realize how thin the line between the truth and a compelling lie. Between history and an entertaining story." Chronicler gave his words a minute to sink in. "You know which will win, given time.
Patrick Rothfuss
#76. You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.
Mickey Mantle
#77. Ugly or pretty, personal tastes determine the limits of the look. It's a very thin line and it's different for everyone. In the end, fashion is about catching people's attention, whether it's via extreme beauty of extreme ugliness. It's up to us to decide if it works.
Lady Gaga
#78. There is a very thin line between- Gobar(cow dung) and Go-Uber!!!!
Kshitij Bhatia
#79. A long, thin line like steam trailed from the mirror through the room and into the cup of tea. The heat from the tea was warming the egg, steamy tendrils rising, wrapping around its bright spotted shell. Already there were cracks. "Get the egg!" Raven said. Raven
Shannon Hale
#80. At times there's a razor-thin line between truth and insanity.
Carol Plum-Ucci
#81. There is thin line between fun and disrespect to a language. Poking once or twice is fun but excess is disrespect.
Pankaj Gupta
#82. The line between passionate and crazy can be a thin one.
Linda Sue Park
#83. There is a very thin line of difference between a Pessimist and a Perfectionist. Both are scared to fail, strive for ideal but the only think unlike in the two is- Pessimist thinks it will last forever and Perfectionist knows it won't.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#84. The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.
Augusten Burroughs
#85. That line between love and lust was thin as a whisper.
Julia Karr
#86. When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel
#87. There's a very thin line that separates readers and writers. You make a leap over that line when there's a book you want to read and you can't find it and you have to write it yourself.
Alice Hoffman
#88. It could not be a wall but there could be a thin thin line there all round everything.
James Joyce
#89. At times young man, you tread a precariously thin line between being charmingly headstrong and insufferably pigheaded. ( ... ) Miss Bloom, would you fetch my flask of coca-wine? It seems I won't be sleeping tonight and I shall have to indulge if I am to keep awake.
Ransom Riggs
#90. I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.
Charles Kuralt
#91. I was the Head Boy of East High School in 1999. I represent 303 - the area code, not the band - Mile High, until I die. I'm 31, a comedian; I juggle, but I don't glove it. I think waxed mustaches run a very thin line between hipster and 1800s barkeep.
T. J. Miller
#92. The line between actual killing and verbal, symbolic, or imaginary violence is thin and permeable. The threat of violence is a method of forceful coercion, even if no blood is actually shed.
John J. Collins
#93. Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
Richard Branson
#94. A shaman walks the thin line of insanity and bliss.
Lori Morrison
#95. You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.
Barnes Wallis
#96. The line between being practical and being a bastard is thin.
Joe Hart
#97. There is a fine line that separates thinking you know something, and actually knowing the truth. It is a line as thin as a strand of hair, and it's called hope.
Jason Pellegrini
#98. I could not imagine the kind of person that would, upon seeing a crazy talcum-powder-covered Southern lady think to herself, Hmmmm, she might make a great new friend. The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin.
Augusten Burroughs
#99. There is a very thin line of demarcation dividing true love from unadulterated lust. What is love without the pleasures of the flesh and what is lust sans a fluttering heart?
Anurag Shourie
#100. No matter how solid or structured or set you think you are, there is, you know, a very thin line keeping us all from sort of chaos, in some perspective. And you know, I don't view that really as a negative thing at all, but it just is the truth.
Andrew McMahon
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