Top 100 Straight Line Quotes
#1. When you're a child, you think your family works in a straight line. Then you get older and find out where the curves are.
Brando Skyhorse
#2. What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer ... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.
Earle Brown
#3. You know the expression 'As a crow flies,' don't you? People use it to mean a straight line. And that's very important. Because the way a capital-c Crow flies is a straight line. It may appear jagged to some, but the Crow flies in a straight line to its goal.
Barry Lyga
#4. Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.
Joan Jett
#5. The Dude just pounded his way in a straight line, convinced that the lion was a figment of his imagination and that the vampire ahead of him was just Grendel's deformed mutant brother.
Ilona Andrews
#6. My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in a straight line, in its place.
Norman Wisdom
#8. An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of the rage.
Lucy R. Lippard
#9. Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.
John Tillotson
#10. Ahead of me is the open desert, hot and merciless. Behind me is Sand. I don't turn back; I don't say goodbye. The Bullet Catcher carves a straight line through the desert, walking towards the distant mountains.
And I follow.
Joaquin Lowe
#12. Love is not a straight line yet it still gets us to our destination.
Suzette R. Hinton
#14. Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive
Ratan Tata
#15. It is our job to ruin the perfection of the empty page. It is our job to disrupt the status quo: because that's what storytelling us. Taking a straight line and bending it, breaking it, shaping it into something far stranger and far greater.
Chuck Wendig
#16. Life should be a risk. It's more than a straight line that you can see clearly from one point to the other. It dips and curves and you never know what's around the bend sometimes until you get there. That scares a lot of people. But that's the beauty of it.
Katie Kacvinsky
#17. He had forgotten that grief does not decline in a straight line or along a slow curve...almost as if his body contained a big pile of garden rubbish full of both heavy lumps of dirt and of sharp thorny brush that would stab him when he least expected it.
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Helen Simonson
#18. Change occurs on a continuum and does not move in a straight line.
Sharon Weil
#19. Length of a straight line is determined by the two tiny dots on both ends
Mads
#20. Every straight line can be forced into a curve!
Jean Sasson
#21. I do not believe in eternal progress, that we are growing on ever and ever in a straight line. It is too nonsensical to believe. There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle. The force sent out will complete the circle and return to its starting place.
Swami Vivekananda
#22. Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy or tact of expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.
Robert E.Lee
#23. Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.
Kara Goucher
#24. This path, this road that is one perfect straight line even if it goes around the world through heat and fog and rain and snow and it's my life I keep thinking. It's my life.
Deborah Keenan
#25. These books ... , she begins, and stops. I am frightened for her, for myself decades from now, struggling to retain dignity with two strangers as they take away my books. I can see the straight line to her grave, to mine.
Deborah Meyler
#26. The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.
Archimedes
#27. An infinity with God has always been a circle, not a straight line past all your mistakes.
Shannon L. Alder
#28. The page contained a single, unfamiliar symbol. It looked like a backward S with the diagonals of an open triangle cutting through it. A straight line bisected both shapes. Could be creepy. Could be nothing.
Erin Kellison
#29. The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God
Antonio Gaudi
#30. Don't have every dialog go in a straight line to solve the problem. Let your characters argue, be sarcastic, disagree or joke around.
Dan Alatorre
#31. If the earth were not round, heavy bodies would not tend from every side in a straight line towards the center of the earth, but to different points from different sides.
Johannes Kepler
#32. The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it's rarely a straight line.
Eileen Kennedy-Moore
#33. The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.
Theodor Adorno
#34. Then since the autopilot will have it trimmed out to fly in a straight line, the glider will begin what the pilot calls a controlled descent. That kind of a descent, I tell him, would be nice for a change.
Chuck Palahniuk
#35. I am a firm believer that there is rarely a straight line between good and evil.
Nicholas Denmon
#36. grief does not decline in a straight line or along a slow curve like a graph in a child's math book.
Helen Simonson
#37. I think it's fair to say you can't predict a straight line to victory. You know, there'll be good days and bad days along the way.
Dick Cheney
#38. I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
Kelly Miller
#39. As the crow flies-a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.
William Henry Maule
#40. But in more than a few cases, you can draw a straight line from a cop being laid off or a union worker having his or her pension slashed back to the week of 2008 when a handful of Lehman executives took a payoff to mark down their own inventory.
Matt Taibbi
#41. Revenge is never a straight line. It's a forest, and like a forest it's easy to lose your way ... to get lost ... to forget where you came in.
Hattori Hanzo
#42. Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.
Ellis Peters
#43. And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
Milan Kundera
#44. As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.
Paul A. Baran
#45. It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.
Pliny The Elder
#46. The rest of his hair was dark and full and healthy, and his part was one long straight line of pinkish scalp, a country road across his head.
Daniel Wallace
#47. Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavours to preserve its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line.
Isaac Newton
#48. Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well.
Benjamin Hoff
#49. Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.
Robert Smithson
#50. Giving never moves in a straight line - it always moves in circles.
Robert H. Schuller
#51. Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.
Richard Rohr
#52. When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.
Samuel Beckett
#53. Are we nothing but heel skin and blisters? Traveling a straight line to the end of our lives?
Ramona Ausubel
#54. If you consider that a single straight line can be drawn between any two points, one day I'm going to draw a line from him to me or me to him.
Delphine De Vigan
#55. You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.
Abe Burrows
#56. Creativity's too big a pill; the truth's too hard to swallow. Sprinkle sugar in a straight line and we'll all inhale and follow.
Kelby Losack
#58. Life is a simple straight line between birth and death. The problem is you only realize it at the end of the line.
Debasish Mridha
#59. There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.
Julia Glass
#61. The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
#62. The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.
Giambattista Vico
#63. But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going.
Chris Kyle
#64. People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
Dean Kamen
#65. She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around anyone; I couldn't even draw a straight line. She was never into sports; I've always been. Her hand, it fit mine.
Jodi Picoult
#66. Even if you set a long-term goal, that doesn't mean it's a straight-line journey. Often, there are problems and obstacles along the way.
Fred DeLuca
#67. An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
Isaac Newton
#68. Man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum, like a journey ...
Ayn Rand
#69. See how slippery the world is, Edgar,' he whispered. 'See how most folks spin their way across it without thought or direction. But find a straight line through it and there's nothing you can't achieve.
Elizabeth Garner
#70. It also meant that whenever a body is not acted on by any force, it will keep on moving in a straight line at the same speed.
Stephen Hawking
#71. God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely.
Joseph Alexander Leighton
#72. A straight line can readily be drawn among each of the two series of points corresponding to maxima and minima, thus showing that there is a simple relation between the brightness of the variables and their periods.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
#74. There is no straight line to a dream.
Jack Welch
#75. Then if you don't mind a suggestion - plan what you will do, and then set it aside until tomorrow," Cole said. "You tend to worry things in circles. Try to worry in a straight line.
Dee Henderson
#76. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line.
Thomas Hardy
#77. Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
Alfred Nobel
#78. Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense
Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry
Tamora Pierce
#79. The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
Marion Milner
#80. A crooked stick can still draw a straight line, and a messed-up dude like me can still write about an awesome God.
Jefferson Bethke
#81. It seems to me the fence separating us from who we are and who we can be is not a straight line, not erect, but something wavering and distant, a reflection of who we are and what we fear.
Chloe Thurlow
#82. The human heart would never pass the drunk test ... If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn't do it.
Tennessee Williams
#83. It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
Ibrahim Babangida
#84. Life's not clear like that, Sienna. It's not a collection of straight-line paths to your objectives. People don't yell out, 'Ha ha! I am betraying you!' just before they break your heart. In spite of how you're feeling, not everyone's a bad guy.
Robert J. Crane
#85. Style is a continuum. Style never changes. It's a straight line. It's a refinement of the same vocabulary. Style takes you from day to evening, season to season.
Ralph Rucci
#86. Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?
Mary Chapin Carpenter
#87. The thing about reason is that there's a geometry to it. It travels in a straight line, so that slightly different beginnings can lead you to wildly divergent endpoints.
Rachel Hartman
#88. About two months after this photo was taken I was born and my mum died - clean swap. Caring about someone I never knew doesn't make sense, but that's how it is. This photo means a lot. There must be some invisible mother-daughter wiring that runs from her image in a straight line to my heart.
Bill Condon
#89. I still smile it's not worth the trouble any more for a long time now it's not been worth the trouble the tongue spring goes into the mud I stay like this not thirsty any more the tongue goes back into the mouth it closes it has to make a straight line now it's done I've made the image.
Samuel Beckett
#90. Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.
Gloria Steinem
#91. Relationships are not straight forward. They're not black and white. Sometimes things don't always going in a straight line, and that's okay. Love can be very confusing.
Danica McKellar
#93. The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.
Madeleine L'Engle
#94. If only time never came to its senses. If somehow it wouldn't succeed in walking a straight line. If it would only lurch, behave nonsensically, fall to pieces. And we would watch, and, condemning its actions, would never have to refer to it again.
Elif Shafak
#95. Destiny does not lead us in a straight line. As if to some silent music, people and events come into our lives. We are led this way or that and sometimes in a circle. Unknowingly we all move to life's silent tune. This is Destiny's Dance.
Rosemary Gard
Rosemary Gard
#96. A circle in a straight line is the mathematical symbol of miracle.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#97. The original route, whether called U. S. 40 or something else, will furnish the main-traveled road until someone disproves the geometrical proposition that a straight line is the shortest distance between points.
George R. Stewart
#98. Shortest distance between two points is not a straight line - it's a middleman.
Ayn Rand
#99. You might want to ease up on the perfume." "I'm not wearing perfume." "Sure you are. I think it's called 'Ode To Get The Fuck Away From Me'." I looked at her face quickly enough to see her have to force her lips to stay in a straight line. "Apparently I need to go put on some more," she said,
Jessica Gadziala
#100. A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
Madeleine L'Engle
