On The Line Quotes

#1. Leadership is not just about giving orders. It's about being prepared to put your body and soul on the line to protect those who look to you for command. Any leader who won't isn't worth the name.

Mina Carter

#2. Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the line as you suffer the slings and arrows of ridicule.

Frank X. Barron

#3. I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every day. The game was on the line and I wanted to go out there and come through for my team. That win tonight means a lot for us.

Sammy Sosa

#4. Ten years ago, in the aftermath of the referendum in Quebec, the very existence of Canada was on the line ... I had a responsibility to ensure that Canada never again came close to the precipice,

Jean Chretien

#5. After a few minutes there was a click on the line and a voice said in Farsi,"Goh Benares roo gahbret."
This roughly translated as: "May shit rain down upon your grave."
"Goozidam too chesmet," Tom replied.
"I fart in your eye.

Mark Mills

#6. There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs.

Wynton Marsalis

#7. There are times we have to put our body on the line for what we believe, for the injustices we see even within our own families.

Terry Tempest Williams

#8. Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don't even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I'm being upstaged by a dead pig.

Suzanne Collins

#9. It's about risking everything. Putting your heart on the line, even when you don't know what's going to happen. It's risking having the person you love rip it out and stomp all over it in public.

Susan Mallery

#10. If you got the balls to follow something through, you can end up being the coolest, smartest guy in the room, because you've literally put your ass on the line.

Steve Coogan

#11. Who wouldn't put an entire world on the line for the off chance of getting their hands on a creature that doesn't sleep and won't leave them alone?

Michelle Sagara West

#12. Our men and women in uniform put their lives on the line for our nation every day; they should not have to jeopardize their financial well-being as well.

Mark Pryor

#13. We rarely hear warnings about playing it safe. We don't see headlines that say, ... Man retires after a mediocre career and feels painful remorse for never having laid anything on the line.

Doug Sundheim

#14. Never had much faith in love or miracles, Never wanna put my heart on the line

Bruno Mars

#15. Nothing is worth putting my health on the line. Not a camera, not a title, nothing.

Marcel Hirscher

#16. I swear to God, if you do not put Mom on the line I'm going to choke you in your sleep." "With your bare hands or your pretentious infinity scarf?" Rell joked.

Raine O'Tierney

#17. Their lives are literally on the line in ways men just don't experience.

Gavin De Becker

#18. I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.

Henry Paulson

#19. Every day, first responders put their own lives on the line to ensure our safety. The least we can do is make sure they have the tools to protect and serve their communities.

Joe Lieberman

#20. The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly, and above all no invulnerability to bullets, reveals far greater virtue than Superman - who is only a mere superhero.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#21. If you're truly open, you'll put every single thing you think is true on the line. And in doing so, you live in questions, not answers.

Gail Brenner

#22. Basic economic theory. People behave differently based on how much they think something's worth. Because everyone got their chips for free, people made huge bets on every hand - no matter what they were holding. People who play with everything on the line - for real - don't act like that.

Elle Lothlorien

#23. Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.

Hank Stram

#24. I'm an actress. I'm not putting my life on the line for any great cause. I don't step out too boldly about anything except my children and family.

Kelli O'Hara

#25. I will go through a lot of pain to beat someone. If there's pride and ego on the line, if I'm desperate, then I'm willing to go to a place where it hurts a lot more.

Shalane Flanagan

#26. In addition to shaming sexual-assault victims, positioning abstinence as women's domain further promotes the notion that it's women's morality that's on the line when it comes to sex, men just can't help themselves, so their ethics are safe from criticism.

Jessica Valenti

#27. Writing comedy is an exposing thing because you're putting yourself on the line with every joke you write, and although you can't second-guess an audience, if you want to be successful, you have to write stuff people like.

Catherine Tate

#28. The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.

Dylan Moran

#29. If I want to do action, you don't really get to do it. They don't let you, there's too much on the line to let you jump out of a building.

Channing Tatum

#30. He can't have gone, he said "Christ know he can't have gone. He's making a turn. Maybe he has been hooked before and her remembers something of it." The he felt the gentle touch on the line and he was happy.

Ernest Hemingway,

#31. 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

#32. When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?

Tori Amos

#33. When you put yourself on the line in a race and expose yourself to the unknown, you learn things about yourself that are very exciting.

Doris Brown Heritage

#34. I haven't been able to grasp the concept of putting your life on the line for whatever reason people go into the military for. Some people just want to pay their bills, some people believe in their country and some people do it because their parents did it, but that's rough.

Anthony Mackie

#35. It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.

Eduardo Galeano

#36. If there is something you want to be, have or do in this life, there is only one sure way to find out if you have it. Put your butt on the line!!.

Patrice

#37. When people ask what you do, tell them you're a writer. Put yourself on the line. Make a commitment.

Janet Evanovich

#38. I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.

Ian Thorpe

#39. In my experience, successful people shoot for the stars, put their hearts on the line in every battle, and ultimately discover that the lessons learned from the pursuit of excellence mean much more than the immediate trophies and glory.

Josh Waitzkin

#40. A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road.

Paul Theroux

#41. Look at what I've done my entire life. I have been working on behalf of civil rights, women's rights, human rights for years and I know how challenging it is to change our political system and I have the highest regard for those who have put themselves on the line.

Hillary Clinton

#42. A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a chance. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.

Billy Eichner

#43. When I win, I'll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I'll give players a chance to beat me.

Bobby Fischer

#44. The top players in every field think differently when all the marbles are on the line. Great performers focus on what they are doing, and nothing else ... They let it happen, let it go. They couldn't care less about the results.

John Eliot

#45. I'm attacking the basket more. Because I'm more comfortable on the line, that's an area I want to get to.

Tim Duncan

#46. I believe these words came from the Pokemon movie. 'Life can be a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line. But you and I can make a difference. There's a mission just for you and me.'

Herman Cain

#47. In the police's defense, the Riot aren't wearing their cuts, but I'm disappointed. The Riot watching the store are big names and we know them by face and road name in order to stay safe. I'd think the police would have done their homework, especially with Violet's life on the line.

Katie McGarry

#48. Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line.

Ron Wyden

#49. Leave safety behind. Put your body on the line. Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes. When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say. Well-aimed slingshots can topple giants.

Maggie Kuhn

#50. I don't feel my job is on the line, but of course that might change.

Tony Hayward

#51. Kim's gripe with humans was nothing new. She, like the rest of the Guardians, put her life on the line every time she faced demons and was entitles to her own opinion. Sometimes I wish she would tall in love with a human. That would shut her up.

P.C. Cast

#52. I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

Major Owens

#53. But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#54. I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine. But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line.

Nathalia Crane

#55. As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.

Criss Jami

#56. Before you take your address, while you're still reading the putt, imagine the ball tracking on the line you've chosen and falling into the cup. If you don't believe you can make every putt, why bother trying?

Ernie Els

#57. I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.

Geoffrey Rush

#58. Kissing a stranger because that is what is done presages an unhappy year not for any supernatural reason, but because you are unsatisfied enough with your lot in life to put your lips on the line for a fallacy.

Thomm Quackenbush

#59. Hope is putting Faith "on the line" and expecting results!
(from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering)

Deborah L. McCarragher

#60. Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but "safe" isn't one of them.

Mandy Hale

#61. The medics were the most popular, respected, and appreciated men in the company. Their weapons were first-aid kits, their place on the line was wherever a man called out that he was wounded.

Stephen E. Ambrose

#62. Telling a joke is risk taking. Younger people are more insecure and not willing to put themselves on the line, so a quick one-liner is much safer.

Robert Orben

#63. I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

Oprah Winfrey

#64. I'm more grateful than ever that we have such brave and heroic people in this country who put their lives on the line every day to make me safe.

Stacey Ballis

#65. In truth, though, she could not bear the idea of having a phone on her all the time, wherever she went. Could not be at ease knowing she might get an urgent call from Christmasland, some dead kid on the line: Hey, Ms. McQueen, did you miss us?!?

Joe Hill

#66. I hang my laundry on the line when I write.

Joni Mitchell

#67. It's been a long blessed career. I've been riddled with injuries the past two and a half years and haven't been able to quite compete as I'm accustomed to. At this point, I just really want to enjoy it and put it all on the line when I'm out there.

Terrence Trammell

#68. I like being tested. I get as scared as anyone. But the feeling of putting yourself on the line, betting on your talent and having it work; that's the most exhilarating feeling in the world.

Conan O'Brien

#69. Never let your life depend on the competence of someone whose life isn't also on the line.

Brandon Sanderson

#70. We put our body and minds and lives on the line for being in that ring for the fans, that's why I respect fighters. Unless they don't respect me then I can't give any respect back.

Nonito Donaire

#71. The world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can
the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on white clapboard with the shadows of ferns and wash on the line, the wildness of a winter storm when in the house the flame of a candle doesn't even flicker.

Frederick Buechner

#72. I'll praise Glaucon for the rest of the book as the guy who got it right - the guy who realized that the most important principle for designing an ethical society is to make sure that everyone's reputation is on the line all the time, so that bad behavior will always bring bad consequences.

Jonathan Haidt

#73. Mama always used to say that love is never lost, even if it's not returned in the way you hope or expect. "Put it on out there," she said. "Lay your heart on the line, and don't be afraid of getting it broken. Broken hearts heal. Guarded hearts just turn to stone.

Penelope J. Stokes

#74. There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'.

Darren Aronofsky

#75. Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

Andrew Wyeth

#76. With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.

Jennifer Granholm

#77. There's no way a fighter should fight and put his life on the line, and a promoter makes more money than he makes.

Roy Jones Jr.

#78. If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nick Nolte

#79. I loved to hit with men on base and with the game on the line.

Willie Stargell

#80. Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line.

Bryant Gumbel

#81. I am a competitor, I want to go out there and lay it all on the line for my team.

Marcus Mariota

#82. I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice.

Anne Heche

#83. Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

Alec Baldwin

#84. Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.

Chris Christie

#85. Carl reckoned that it was none of his affair until his life was on the line. Even if these two blokes shagged each other senseless every chance they got, he didn't see how that really affected him.

Abigail Roux

#86. That was the biggest fear. I'd rather clean up before I went on the road. It's bad enough cleaning up by yourself, but the idea of putting the whole tour on the line because I could'n make it was too much; even for me

Keith Richards

#87. We all have talents that, sometimes, we never quite fulfill. We're all scared, deep down, but maybe we just need to lay it on the line and explore our abilities and just not be afraid of failing.

Chrissie Wellington

#88. Jesus put his life on the line because He trusted that His Father had a greater plan.

Dan Ellis

#89. Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line.

Luke Bryan

#90. Each player on this team whether he shines in the spotlight or eats dirt on the line, must be an All-American.

Omar N. Bradley

#91. Where the Army we loved sold us out for careerist brass, a war-porn-fixated media and military-industrial-complex corporate greed; where the only honor and integrity seemed to exist among the troops on the line.

Luis Carlos Montalvan

#92. Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them.

Alberto Salazar

#93. Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

Victor Kiam

#94. I have learnt that trusting another takes a leap of faith; taking a risk and putting emotions on the line. This is in the hope that the other will accept and understand you.

Aisha Mirza

#95. Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

Barack Obama

#96. My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.

Rafael Palmeiro

#97. I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.

Neil Gaiman

#98. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line.

Erma Bombeck

#99. I start imagining how the conversation will go, where he calls you, and you answer, and he's silent except for breathing and a few grunts, and you think you have some creeper on the line, hang up on him, and he crushes the phone in his huge, heartbroken hand and never leaves his cabin again." Ellie

Katie Ruggle

#100. For me, like when you've put yourself out there emotionally, physically, and you've really put yourself on the line, for me, that means I've really done something.

Tavis Smiley