Line That Separates Quotes

#1. There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Erma Bombeck

#2. History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.

Herodotus

#3. The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in from out - and on the shapes that are created by it.

John Szarkowski

#4. 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

#5. We were familiar with the line that separates grief from madness, and we know that sometimes the only way to stay on the right side of it is to scream.

Carsten Jensen

#6. Sure, I'm gray-shading the line that separates stable and crazy, but the point is, there is a line. And I haven't completely crossed over to lunatic.

Anna Banks

#7. Very simply, our physical and spiritual safety lies in never even getting close to the line that separates light from dark, good from evil.

Sheri L. Dew

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line, but I have a lot of confidence in myself.

Paul Pierce

#12. 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

#13. He tells them that there is a line that separates killing bugs from killing frogs, and that no matter how hard it is, that line must never be crossed

Etgar Keret

#14. 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

#15. Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.

Richard Feynman

#16. No clear line separates healing from upgrading. Medicine almost always begins by saving people from falling below the norm, but the same tools and know-how can then be used to surpass the norm.

Yuval Noah Harari

#17. A thin line separates destiny from coincidence.

T. J. Stiles

#18. Where's the line, Sarah? What separates an informal effort from a rogue operation?" "Success," she countered. "And secrecy.

Matthew Palmer

#19. There is no line of demarcation between the amateurs and the pros; everyone is using the same tactics and playing in the same arenas. The only thing that separates them is radio, but the artist doesn't control who goes to radio and who doesn't.

Lupe Fiasco

#20. To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.

Ray Bradbury

#21. But metaphors can reduce the distance." "We're not metaphors." "I know, but metaphors eliminates what separates you and me.

Haruki Murakami

#22. I think we could be friends," he said, falling into step with her. "It's perfect because I wouldn't fall in love with you, like I do with the mermaids. Girls always seem so exotic. But it would be okay with you, because you're more like ... you know. Not like a girl." He shrugged.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#23. Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other

James Thurber

#24. A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

Dean Koontz

#25. Hoisting my brick, I aimed at the white werewolf's head and threw as hard as I could. The brick collided with the wolf's skull and then bounced to the ground. It let go of Kyle and barked out a surprised yelp just as I realized my plan didn't have a step two.

Kathleen Peacock

#26. 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

#27. And so, it is always the case that the past is irreparably land-locked, and the future has yet to land. And here we are, living out our lives on the precariously thin line which separates the two.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#28. My most important problem was to destroy the line of demarcation that separates what seems real from what seems fantastic. Because in the world that I was trying to evoke, that barrier didn't exist.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#29. I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.

Ernest Shackleton

#30. 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

#31. If your dog should be dead, I'm gonna love you instead.

George Harrison

#32. What line separates the lawful wartime targeting of an enemy combatant from the extrajudicial murder of a man suspected, but not convicted, of wrongdoing? (p8)

Rosa Brooks