Quotes about Straight Line

The straight line is ungodly. Votes: 2

The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity. Votes: 2

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Votes: 2

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down. Votes: 2

The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God. Votes: 2

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development. Votes: 2

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. Votes: 2

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book. Votes: 2

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force. Votes: 2

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't. Votes: 2

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway. Votes: 2

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked. Votes: 2

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line. Votes: 2

I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs. Votes: 2

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas. Votes: 2

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. Votes: 2

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points. Votes: 2

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose. Votes: 2

English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness. Votes: 2

The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images. Votes: 2

You can graph human evolution, which is mostly a straight line, but we do get better and change over time, and you can graph technological evolution, which is a line that's going straight up. They are going to intersect each other at some point, and that's happening now. Votes: 2

Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were. Votes: 2

Revenge is never a straight line. Votes: 0

There's no straight line to progress. Votes: 0

Draw a straight line and follow it. Votes: 0

Try not to make a straight line crooked. Votes: 0

There is no straight line to a dream. Votes: 0

The straightest line between a straight distance is two points. Votes: 0

I can walk the line, if it ain't too straight. Votes: 0

We know there is no progress in a straight line. Votes: 0

If you're lucky, you don't think in a straight line. Votes: 0

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal Votes: 0

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. Votes: 0

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life. Votes: 0

Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line. Votes: 0

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God Votes: 0

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. Votes: 0

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal. Votes: 0

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line. Votes: 0

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list. Votes: 0

Giving never moves in a straight line - it always moves in circles. Votes: 0

A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle. Votes: 0

History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags. Votes: 0

The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line. Votes: 0

As the crow flies"-a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line. Votes: 0

As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line. Votes: 0

Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere. Votes: 0

I can't draw a straight line to save my life. I just can't draw. Votes: 0

It was kind of a prodding myself to play I Walk The Line straight. Votes: 0

Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we. Votes: 0

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line. Votes: 0

The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum. Votes: 0

In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. Votes: 0

The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys. Votes: 0

There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle. Votes: 0

God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely. Votes: 0

The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points. Votes: 0

An infinity with God has always been a circle, not a straight line past all your mistakes. Votes: 0

Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities. Votes: 0

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. Votes: 0

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line. Votes: 0

Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate. Votes: 0

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it. Votes: 0

The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides. Votes: 0

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line Votes: 0

We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture. Votes: 0

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant. Votes: 0

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. Votes: 0

You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that. Votes: 0

Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics. Votes: 0

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics. Votes: 0

Don't be snarky, but don't be saccharine. Don't pander, but don't shut people out. Go straight down the line with the performance. Votes: 0

The path of America's development is never a straight line. Sometimes we move in ways that are forwards; sometime that seem back. Votes: 0

A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line. Votes: 0

Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead. Votes: 0

Unless it's a dead-straight short putt, you should focus on a spot somewhere along the line you want to roll the ball on. Votes: 0

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. Votes: 0

Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line. Votes: 0

I didn't always walk that straight line. I'm not going to say that I'm an angel. But I made some right decisions along the way. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree. Votes: 0

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same. Votes: 0

The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key? Votes: 0

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there. Votes: 0

The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news. Votes: 0

Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward. Votes: 0

Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it. Votes: 0

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude. Votes: 0

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn. Votes: 0

Lila walked by with her nose in the air. In a straight line behind her, six obedient kindergartners waddled like baby geese, singing in unison, 'Row, row, row your yacht... Votes: 0

Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points. Votes: 0

Life is made up of circles ... Life is not a straight line ... And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it can. That's enough. Thick line. Straight toward you. - Look. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it. Votes: 0

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0