Fault Line Quotes

#1. The geology of Staten Island is the most complex of the city's boroughs, containing the terminal moraine of the last ice age, a fault line from 470 million years ago, the southern tail of the Palisades formation, and sediments collected over the millennia.

Sergey Kadinsky

#2. We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our , or fractured by a permanent, damming fault line.

Karen Marie Moning

#3. We can figure something out." My tone was soft, thick with threatening tears. Losing Ty and Sam would break my world open like a tremor on a fault line.
"No, sweetness. We can't."
Chapter Twenty-Two

Ann Aguirre

#4. The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.'

Arlie Russell Hochschild

#5. There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line.

Edward Taylor

#6. Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.

Narendra Modi

#7. The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.

Daniel H. Pink

#8. There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean, this has been a running thread - and - and fault line in American life and American politics since its founding.

Barack Obama

#9. We should feel dissonance; we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured open between our mortal and immortal parts; theologians trace the fault line back to the Fall.

Philip Yancey

#10. It's a fault line where the flotsam and energy that washes up from the Pacific collides with all of urban America crashing in from the other direction.

Antoine Predock

#11. Listening to evangelicals bridges major political fault line.

Barack Obama

#12. A fault line runs down the middle of my life, and whenever it cracks open-divorcing my words and actions from the truth I hold within-things around me get shaky and start to fall apart.

Parker J. Palmer

#13. We lived, lulled, on the fault line of chaos. Change could come explosively, and out of nowhere.

Wally Lamb

#14. Then he says how it's no one's fault, it just happened, and I swear that it-just-happened line is the filmiest line in the Book of Excuses for Lame Boys.

Susane Colasanti

#15. Absolutely Disgusted! Your Father's Facing An Inquiry At Work And It's Entirely Your Fault! If You Put Another Toe Out Of Line, We'll Bring You Straight Back Home!

J.K. Rowling

#16. I have always been interested in art but had no formal training or experience. It's always been just what I liked, my eye for art.

Britt Robertson

#17. Every year, it takes more brains to navigate this complicated world. More people are falling below what I call the 'incompetence line' through no fault of their own.

Scott Adams

#18. I come from a long line of women who like shoes to a fault.

Zoe Lister-Jones

#19. It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

Vin Diesel

#20. Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

Haim Ginott

#21. I don't believe that just because one person is born on one side of some imaginary line and another person is born on the other side means that a lot of people should be getting screwed through no fault of their own.

Ben Cohen

#22. If you're gonna use me as a stepping stone, you'd better step hard!

Shawn Michaels

#23. And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.

John Green

#24. The 8 key words that will move practically anyone to your side of the issue: 'If you can't do it, I'll definitely understand.'

Bob Burg

#25. They're not dead," I told the goat. "They both have pulses." "Oh." The goat sighed. "Well, give them a few more hours and they'll probably be dead." "What is wrong with you?" "Everything," said the goat.

Rick Riordan

#26. People are always going to find fault with anything you do, any process that you're a part of. The creative process means taking risks, I've taken risks and I've made mistakes, but the bottom line is, could anyone else have done any better ? I have to believe that what I created was worthwhile.

Zach Braff