Toe The Line Quotes

#1. We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries.

Jay Inslee

#2. As a teenager I was very clear that I wasn't in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there was a capacity within Christianity and the bible not to fall into line but to question the status quo, that's what kept me in the church. I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.

Alan Green

#3. There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.

Garry Wills

#4. We think a person should do right because it's right, not because their soul will be in eternal jeopardy if they don't toe the line.

Gini Koch

#5. It's not an intellectual exercise. It's not an academic pursuit - it sort of masquerades as one, but at its core it's a test of trust in each other. Are you or aren't you one of us? And woe to the one who doesn't toe the line.

Daniel C. Dennett

#6. My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

Alan Lewis

#7. It's the law, Jack. When the government breaks the law, they have to toe the line.

Kenneth Eade

#8. You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle.

Darrell Issa

#9. I took movement classes that I wore my double-breasted suits to. I worked on my elocution because people spoke differently then. I was really trying to toe the line. I think that if I had spoken exactly the way that people spoke back then, it probably would have alienated people

Matt Bomer

#10. I was always told I had to be an example to my siblings. I was told to toe the line. So I had to behave.

Teresita Sy-Coson

#11. A trial was a stupid word, considering
that an attempt was never good enough: you were supposed to toe the line, period.

Jodi Picoult

#12. What I was doing was servicing the needs of my constituents and I was not allowed to do that because I did not toe the line on U.S. policy for Israel.

Cynthia McKinney

#13. If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you end up paying for that in the long run. You pay for it ... with your homeland, or with your soul, or with your artistic vision.

Diana Abu-Jaber

#14. I take my profession as an economist seriously and feel a commitment to the truth. This is incompatible with having to toe the political party line.

Hans-Werner Sinn

#15. When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.'

Astro Teller

#16. But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating
conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.

James Branch Cabell

#17. My acting has always been in the world of comedy, but in my writing, other than writing sketches, I really am drawn to the balance between comedy and drama. I like things that sort of toe that line of one minute you're in this emotional space and then all of the sudden something happens.

Jim Rash

#18. Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.

Isaiah

#19. Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am all about money. I mean, just look how well my line of zodiac-inspired toe rings and homeopathic children's medications are selling on Home Shopping Network.

Tina Fey

#20. Choosing to work in HR is like choosing to work in the complaint department of hell, except way more frustrating, because at least in hell you'd be able to agree that that Satan is a real dick-wagon without having to toe the company line.

Jenny Lawson

#21. 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

#22. Well there's a line that you must toe and it'll soon be time to go but it's darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows

Elvis Costello

#23. Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.

Johan Cruijff

#24. This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.

Walter Reisch

#25. It had seemed simple in theory to persuade one of them to allow a male into her bed and heart. The reality of it was anything but easy.

Laurann Dohner

#26. Let her have today.Leave tomorrow to the angels.

Kami Garcia

#27. One thing I longed to do was to design a complete look, from head to toe, so I started a make-up line in 1966.

Mary Quant

#28. In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

Henry David Thoreau

#29. You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever ...

Allison Pearson

#30. He traced a line in the dirt with his toe. 'This is a battlefield. Has been since Cain killed Abel. And don't let it get complicated. Gray it ain't. It's black and white. Good versus evil. You might as well choose sides right now.

Charles Martin

#31. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#32. So she did not replay, but played the strategist. She retained more power by withholding an answer.

E. Lockhart

#33. I could never toe the party line. I'd wear out the carpet crossing the floor.

Hazel McCallion

#34. I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.

Tamala Jones

#35. She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's.

Colleen McCullough

#36. Umman Kudu: scissors-line of jaw muscles, chin like a boot toe - a man to be trusted because the captain's vices were known.

Frank Herbert

#37. Not everyone wants the same thing. A just law can be flexible. To be just, a law has to be flexible. She has saved the day.

Gloria Steinem

#38. It is refreshing to be able to express my views without having to toe a party line. It has got me into trouble on the odd occasion, but I am not going to stop saying what I think.

Pauline Hanson

#39. Let me in, immigration man, can I cross the line and pray, I can stay another day? Won't you let me in, immigration man? I won't toe your line today, I can't see it anyway.

Graham Nash