Cross The Line Quotes

#1. Let me in, immigration man, can I cross the line and pray, I can stay another day? Won't you let me in, immigration man? I won't toe your line today, I can't see it anyway.

Graham Nash

#2. The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.

T. Allen Lawson

#3. I can't do the whole run but I am able to start the race and I will be there at the end when winners cross the line.

Fabrice Muamba

#4. You cannot cross the line unless you get near it.

Tony Rehor

#5. I'm old school. I'm locked into my own little circle. If you cross the line, you're going to get bit. They'll always know where I'm coming from and once we hit the floor, there's no doubt.

Eli Manning

#6. These folks zigged when the rest of the world zagged. And once you cross the line, there's no coming back. Mark my words.

Jack Gantos

#7. All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take as truth whatever our parents and other influentials have said about us during our childhood, whether these messages are communicated verbally, physically, or silently.

Heyward Bruce Ewart III

#8. Remember never to text and drive, it's bad grammar, even if you have a deadline. You might cross the line and dead may be your destination. Think about it!!

Neil Leckman

#9. The world is full of moments when people cross the line from engagement into disengagement, replacing creativity and passion with stagnation and resentment.

Ruth K. Ross

#10. The woman who is liberated must never cross the line in which we ask men to examine their actions; we are a country built on the ideas, ingenuity, canniness, and downright brutality of man - to question their motives is to question our existence.

Kristen Kehoe

#11. [To her younger sister on using drugs:] If you do that stuff, you're dancing with the devil, because you never know when you're going to cross the line and not be able to get back.

Demi Lovato

#12. Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

Ralph Boston

#13. I was quite emotional when I finished my lap, but had to wait for other drivers to cross the line to hear whether I'd actually done it. It feels very special, but I acknowledge that the old master, Nigel Mansell, took his 14 poles from only 16 races.

Sebastian Vettel

#14. Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.

George Eliot

#15. The person who is impatient with weakness will be ineffective in his leadership. The evidence of our strength lies not in the distance that separates us from other runners but in our closure with them, our slower pace for their sakes, our helping them pick it up and cross the line.

J. Oswald Sanders

#16. I don't think you cross the line - I think you move the line.

Jeff Ross

#17. When you cross the line and you've won the race, to me, it's an amazing feeling.

Joey Logano

#18. I think we would all agree that people should not be jailed for thoughts. But when, if ever, does a thought cross the line and become a crime?

Gil Valle

#19. You can cross the line but you can also be forgiven.

Johnny Hunt

#20. I care not for the body which may rot. Yet, for the transgression of the spirit, of moral ethics, of life, liberty and the soul itself, I must and shall cross the line of battle or lose the very reason not to.

The Great Pacifist

#21. I didn't cross the line, you drew it in after I traversed it.

Russell Brand

#22. Satan doesn't win when he can get us to cross the line but when he convinces us that there is no way back.

Brad Wilcox

#23. When did pursuing your ambitions cross the line from brave into foolhardy? How did you know when to stop?

Hanya Yanagihara

#24. I believe in times of adversity there's a line that is sometimes drawn, a line that separates your old life from your new. You cross the line, you'll never be the same.

Kresley Cole

#25. 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

#26. All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.

David Hawkins

#27. I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.

Peter Coyote

#28. It is not wrong to want to work and earn a decent living; in fact, God has given work to us. But this legitimate desire can very easily cross the line into greed - especially in our materialistic society.

Billy Graham

#29. No one has to come see my shows who doesn't like me talking about white Christians. They are free not buy a ticket. They're free to leave at any time. So I'm not imposing anything on anyone. Therefore I feel free to cross the line.

George Carlin

#30. When you cross the line, it is such a wonderful feeling it's hard to describe.

Kelly Holmes

#31. I know crazy when I see it." The moment the words flew out of my mouth I regretted them. Sometimes when you see the line, you think it's a good idea to cross it--until you do.~Noah

Katie McGarry

#32. But I was in this bowling league with a good number of friends who came from across the line. We got the phone call that the border had been closed, and that absolutely nobody was being allowed to cross
not parents, not children, not anybody. Who knew what disguise the assassin had used.

Alberto Alvaro Rios

#33. The way we have been playing, I might tell my players not to cross the picket line (umpire strike of 1979).

Whitey Herzog

#34. Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the other side are the men who can. And not one in a hundred will cross that line. Will you?

Aravind Adiga

#35. The word deadline is defined as "a boundary line in a prison that prisoners can cross only at the risk of being shot." I

Gary Reilly

#36. 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

#37. It's funny ... you can make fun of AIDS or Haiti, but if you make fun of some starlet in Hollywood's looks? That's like the one thing ... the line you are not to cross.

Daniel Tosh

#38. Suppose that you didn't make your Easter duty and it's Pentecost Sunday, the last day, and you're on a ship at sea. And the chaplain goes into a coma! But you wanted to receive. And then it's Monday, too late ... But then you cross the International Date Line! Would that then be a sin then, Father?

George Carlin

#39. You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

Jeff Bridges

#40. Alive. This music rocks
me. I drive the interstate,
watch faces come and go on either
side. I am free to be sung to;
I am free to sing. This woman
can cross any line.

Joy Harjo

#41. As soon as you cross your property line, you might as well write off the possibility of getting anything else done that day.

Mark Frauenfelder

#42. The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I'd name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi...Leonard Bacon...but it is still too early to assertions. They're all 'in the field.' It remains to be seen how many will cross the finish line.

Robert Frost

#43. It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race-it is how you cross the finish line that will matter.

Robert D. Hales

#44. Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.

Anthony Kennedy

#45. In racing, there is no question who is best - the first one to cross the finish line wins first prize. But with wine, even if you make the best wine in the world, someone isn't going to like it, because it isn't their style. Judging wine is very subjective.

Mario Andretti

#46. In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.

Julian Castro

#47. The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision.

Louise Bogan

#48. Or, if you decide you want to sleep at my place, on opposite sides of my bedroom with a Do Not Cross line drawn down the middle, I'll do it. I won't like it, but I'll do it.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#49. There are two kinds of guilt. The kind that's a burden and the kind that gives you purpose. Let your guilt be your fuel. Let it remind you of who you want to be. Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It's damaged but it's there. Don't let them take it from you.

Sabaa Tahir

#50. The war in Congo rages on with no end in sight," the announcer said. "And now comes word of a new campaign by the soldiers, to find the women they have already raped and re-rape them." "Holy Christ on a cross!" Mom said. "I draw the line at re-raping." And she turned off NPR.

Maria Semple

#51. I tried once, you know, went to a dance all dressed up, but I felt like such a fool. Everyone kept making encouraging remarks about my looks as if they were afraid I'd cross back over the line again; I was trying, you know, I was proving their way of life was right, and they were terrified I'd stop.

Joanna Russ

#52. They're in the red zone. They're in the last 20 yards, and you can't let them cross that goal line. You can't let them score a touchdown, because that would have unbelievable consequences, grievous consequences for the peace and security of us all, of the world really.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#53. I have always been determined to never compromise my faith or my principles. I always relied on my God-given talent when I took the field. So the idea of using PED's to enhance my performance was a line I chose not to cross.

Tim Salmon

#54. I know economists will say well, we could run a small deficit but the problem is that once you cross that line as we see in the United States, nothing stops deficits from getting larger and larger and spiralling out of control.

Stephen Harper

#55. The only rule is that you can't cross this line. If the ball hits you, you're
out. If someone catches a ball you throw, you're out. We'll keep playing until there are five of you left," Dinkleman explained.
I thought to myself, "What the fuck? That was like, four rules, not one.

Phil Wohl

#56. Happiness can't be bottled. It can't be smoked, swallowed, shot or ejaculated. And there is no end game: you never cross the finish line and are suddenly happy. Even when all your wildest dreams come true, you still pursue happiness.

Kevin Smith

#57. Yeah, getting the company that would help advertise and cross promote the movie on the release was an important factor for New Line, so we went out to a lot of different companies.

David R. Ellis

#58. Movie stars are doing TV series, and former TV stars are doing guest shots. Everybody gets bumped down the line. That's affected everyone in the industry. I've been lucky; I've stayed busy. I'll cross my fingers until it's my turn to be sitting around, not working. I'm sure that'll happen, too.

Zeljko Ivanek

#59. You can be someone's friend and have sex with them. The trick is you have to want their emotional and physical well-being more than you want to fuck them. If you cross that line and want sex more than their happiness, then you aren't their friend.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#60. It always takes the truth a little bit longer to cross the finish line.

Kim Basinger

#61. When you cross the finish line, it will change your life forever

Dick Beardsley

#62. She must jump from square to square, right leg first, then left, then both together, and make a show of caring whether or not she steps on a line. She must go on jumping day after day, bearing the burden of time on her shoulders like a cross that grows heavier from day to day.

Milan Kundera

#63. There is a difference between killing while in the throes of Hunger or Blood Frenzy, and giving in to the monster. Once you fall, once you willingly cross that line, it changes you. Forever.

Julie Kagawa

#64. By welcoming a marginalized person whose body is wounded and by welcoming the sinner whose soul is wounded, we put our credibility as Christians on the line. Let us always remember the words of Saint John of the Cross: In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

Pope Francis

#65. Some lean back. But those who lean forward are poised to cross the finish-line, first!

T.F. Hodge

#66. Americans will buy anything, as long as it doesn't cross the thin line between cute and demonic.

Ian Shoales

#67. This, I think, is the boundary line of adulthood. Not the crap they claim it is- graduating from high school or losing your virginity or getting your first apartment or whatever. You cross the boundary the first time you're changed forever. You cross it the first time you know you can never go back.

Claudia Gray

#68. Lajwanti made the cardinal mistake of trying to cross the dividing line that separates the existence of the rich from that of the poor. She made the fatal error of dreaming beyond her means. The bigger the dream, the bigger the disappointment.

Vikas Swarup

#69. What's interesting about the relationship between gay men and women is there can be a lot of affection, but there's a line that you don't cross.

Michael Carroll

#70. I just want to give my best in London, I want to cross that line and see a personal best on the clock then I will see what position I am in.

Asafa Powell

#71. If you want to write believable fiction, you will have to cross over the line of your self-restraint and revel in the words and ideas that you would never express in your everyday life.

Walter Mosley

#72. Winners see the victory before the contest begins and before they cross the finish line. Get yourself ready. SEE THE VICTORY.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#73. Sooner or later you go through the process because when the gun goes off when a race starts not everybody goes across the finish line. Not everybody has the same motivations. It's not even about stamina. It's about relentless, dog-headed, stubborn determination to cross that finish line.

Dean Goodman

#74. I think of shock as kind of an uptown form of surprise. Comedy is filled with surprise, so when I cross a line ... I like to find out where the line might be and then cross it deliberately, and then make the audience happy about crossing the line with me.

George Carlin

#75. Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.

Jerry Coleman

#76. Between here and there is a journey illuminated by the rising and setting of a radiant sun. Don't miss its splendor in your all-fired hurry to cross the finish line.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#77. Norah, understand that I won't be able to go back from this. Once we cross this line, there will never be anyone else for me. You are the last person I ever want to be with.

Angela Richardson

#78. In fact, the bandits steal the drinks and assistance provided along the course. Worse, they cross the finish line and mess up the scoring of legitimate runners.

Joe Henderson

#79. We need to remember that God is no less good to us when we find ourselves in a battle of wills with a preschooler in the checkout line at the grocery store than he was as his Son dragged a cross up a hill that Friday two thousand years ago.

Gloria Furman

#80. The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

Philip G. Zimbardo

#81. I look at the occasion, and this was one of the biggest so far in my career. It was a bit of a gamble, but I spotted Casillas off his line before the cross came in. It was a header, but a lobbed header
a great goal.

Robin Van Persie

#82. As I'm so often reminded what a priceless gift my life is, I ache with everything in me to make it count, so that when I finally cross the finish line, I'll hear the words, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.

Adam Young

#83. How to run an ultramarathon ? Puff out your chest, put one foot in front of the other, and don't stop till you cross the finish line.

Dean Karnazes

#84. Destiny is not one push, she thought as she waited to cross a quiet street on that cold Paris evening years later, but a thousand small moments that through insight and hard work you line up in the right direction, like the magnet does the metal shavings.

Robert M. Edsel

#85. I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

Harlan Coben

#86. [ ... ]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other.

Henri Nouwen

#87. Commitment is a line you must cross ... it is the difference between dreaming and doing.

Bernie Fuchs

#88. The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.

Dave Chappelle

#89. It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods;
To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip,
Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity,
Or draw a line daring them to cross.

Anne Spencer

#90. 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

#91. Sometimes when you see the line, you think it's a good idea to cross it
until you do.

Katie McGarry

#92. I'm about to cross a line with you ... a line there will be no hope of me ever returning from. And I'm terrified because the thought of you excites me.

J.L. Vallance

#93. I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

George Carlin

#94. Many people feel he did cross a line in a way he hadn't even done before and also that Republicans had to speak out because they believe Trump poses a danger to the party.

Mara Liasson

#95. The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.

William S. Burroughs

#96. I've always tried to walk a line between being incisive and acerbic, but not mean. Sometimes I'm going to tip over the line a little bit, but that's usually a line I try not to cross.

Mark Leibovich

#97. Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.

Alex Kapranos

#98. I'm different than most people ... when I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I'm thinking about what I'm going to do tomorrow. It's as If my Journey is everlasting and there is no finish line

David Goggins

#99. We're losing ground. This planet is losing ground. So things need to happen and they need to happen quick. Our message should be-loud and clear-there comes a time when the home needs protecting and the line needs drawing and anybody that dares cross it acts at their own peril.

Diane Wilson

#100. There is no special protection when you cross that invisible line from your ordinary life to that parallel world where tragedies happen. It happens just like this. You don't become someone else. You're still exactly the same. Everything around you still smells and looks and feels exactly the same.

Liane Moriarty