Lines Crossed Quotes

#1. I stopped. She was bleeding after all. Perfect lines crossed her wrists, not near any crucial veins, but enough to leave wet red tracks across her skin. She hadn;t hit her veins when she did this; death hadn't been her goal.

Richelle Mead

#2. Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

Ellen Goodman

#3. I could have been verse made flesh or compressed moonlight. Anything other than who I was now.

Roshani Chokshi

#4. Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.

Paulo Coelho

#5. They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.

Bobby Seale

#6. A little recognition of the escapes we made, of the finish line we crossed, only to find so many other finish lines waiting after it.

David Levithan

#7. I am not in favor of killing - that for me is the line not to be crossed.

Margarethe Von Trotta

#8. A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.

Lisa Kleypas

#9. I didn't even watch the soaps when I was in them because it's like a coal miner coming home and staring at the coal scuttle - I was never a great lover of watching myself act.

Ross Kemp

#10. Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner.

Thomas King

#11. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

James Joyce

#12. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

Kathryn Stockett

#13. I have always found there to be a certain sadness about mirrors, since they double the space in a house which needs to be filled with love.

Alan Bradley

#14. Some lines were never meant to be crossed, however good your cause may seem.

Mira Grant

#15. Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial.

Chuck Palahniuk

#16. You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better and want to ape the success.

David Fincher

#17. I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either.

Jeremy Lin

#18. She had a tattoo on the inside: the letters SPQR, a crossed sword and torch, and under that, four parallel lines like score marks.

Rick Riordan

#19. There is a silent deference for one another, a distance that is kept, and lines that aren't crossed, but in their sharing, they each try to pay tribute to the bond in their own way. As often as possible, they open up a little and give what they can.

Dan Groat

#20. The moment Quan crossed a line with me, I'd have to shut him down, but either he hadn't crossed one yet or my lines weren't where I thought they were.

Lola Dodge

#21. The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed party lines and built subversive friendships. And we should do that too.

Shane Claiborne

#22. I've crossed lines of word and wire and both have cut me deep. I've been frozen out and I've been on fire, and the tears are mine to weep.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#23. If there be no place for wild bison in all of Montana, then surely we have crossed a line between the Last Best Place and the the Once Best Place.

Jim Bailey

#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. I knew my words were harsh, as I enunciated each syllable slowly, but I felt like I had to be clear with him. We'd crossed too many lines that day, and it needed to stop.

Monica Alexander

#26. My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

Haile Gebrselassie

#27. A line, once crossed, can never be uncrossed.

Nancy Mairs

#28. I need a sign to let me know you're here. All of these lines are being crossed over the atmosphere. I need to know that things are
gonna look up ... I'm calling all you Angels ... I won't give up if you don't give up.

Train

#29. Once you've crossed state lines, you don't phone to ask if you can drop in.

Gillian Flynn

#30. Walk the lines of nature's palm crossed with silver and with gold.

Ian Anderson

#31. The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.

Haruki Murakami

#32. When you draw a line in the sand, be careful it is not low tide.

Dixie Waters

#33. I think lines are meant to be crossed anyways. The entire time I was singing on the cross, there's numbers flipping over my head. You know, starting at one and going up to 12 million.

Madonna Ciccone