Top 1200 Life Line Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.

There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line, but I have a lot of confidence in myself.

As far as I'm concerned, there is no line between high art and pop art, and there should be no line.

If they prescribe pain killers that may increase the possibility of death so long as their specific intention was not to end life." "Doctors should do everything they can to reduce pain, but not to administer drugs to end life, I think we go over a line then.

Claire, I-Look, my life is one long series of screw-ups and bad decisions, and I know that. I own that. But you...I just want you to be happy. And it cuts me when you're not." "I'm happy with you." She heard the smile in his voice this time. "So what do you really want? A storybook life in Vampireville, with your life on the line every day and a half?" "I'm considering it," she said. And she was.

All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem

When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.

What line breaks add to prose prosody is a connection between eye and ear which emphasizes the nature of the language by ... creating units of intent and emphasis, and by contouring the meloding pitch changes in the narrative-line.

The bottom line is that you are the one who is creating your life the way it is. The life you currently live is the result of all your past thoughts and actions. You are in charge of your current thoughts and your present feelings.

Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand.

We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that.

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

Goal line is goal line. You go down there and it's the grit and grind of the game.

I'm not aware of a cadence when writing, but I hear it after. I write in longhand, and that helps. You're closer to it, and you have to cross things out. You put a line through it, but it's still there. You might need it. When you erase a line on a computer, it's gone forever.

I look at whatever the finish line is for the character and then kind of act backwards from that and play him in such a way so that that finish line is more rewarding.

The idea that humans could be related to ape-like ancestors and the rest of creation was considered subversive. If man was just an animal, then he doesn't live forever, he has no soul. And if men don't have a soul, then there's no afterlife. No heaven, no fiery deterrent of hell to keep people in line in this life. And if there's no fiery deterrent to keep people in line, "well then we might as well have hell on Earth!" the critics said.

I wanted to write; I sought all possible paths of personal liberation, but I could never sacrifice a living instant of life for the sake of a line to be written, my balance for the sake of a manuscript, a storm within me for the sake of a poem. I loved life itself too much for this.

It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.

Americans need to worry about whether Trump will be watching out for America's bottom line or his own bottom line.

It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.

Your kids are launched. You love your work but you understand how to place it in the panorama of the rest of your life. There's this line in the book, and when I wrote it I thought yes, that's it - if you think of life as a job, maybe by the time you get to, say, in my case, 60, you've finally gotten good at it.

Learning to fully understand the doctrines of the gospel is a process of a lifetime and comes 'line upon line, precept upon precept.

General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over the same line, I will kill them all before they reach my line.

But really, what else are you going to talk about in line at the liquor store? Childhood trauma seems like the natural choice, since it’s the reason why most of us are in line there to begin with.

I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line as much as possible.

Anyone who is willing and able to put their life on the line to protect America should be honored, not punished.

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.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

In the spiritual life, you must take one step forward each day in a vertical line, from the bottom up.

It is important to know that what I do is not artistic. I am just a film-maker. I live how I live and I do what I do, which is recording moments of my life as I move ahead. And I do it because I am compelled to. Necessity, not artistry, is the true line you can follow in my life and work.

I'm rereading Jenny Offill's 'Dept. of Speculation.' I love it, and she's just a magician. Line by line and paragraph by paragraph, it's mesmerizing and so intricately plotted and so nimble.

It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!

A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.

Americans need to worry about whether Donald Trump will be watching out for America's bottom line or his own bottom line.

Its not that I dont value my life. Its just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.

POW 369, I should salute you from this heart of mine. And thank you for placing your life on the line.

I will not put the life of an American service member on the line unless that is the option of last resort.

My wife knows that interacting with actresses is all part of the job, but there is a line which I'm not supposed to cross, and as long as I don't cross it, there are no problems. She doesn't bother with whatever I do onscreen. But the line is always there!

Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did.

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.

My tag line for 'Silver Linings' is this: It's about a man who thinks his life is a movie produced by God.

It's really nice when life comes full circle and you get to work with people four years down the line.

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.

The kind of work I do, there's usually a lot of money on the line; there are jobs on the line. It's not a world that lends itself to everyone being friendly all the time. We're certainly not sitting around holding hands singing 'Kumbaya.'

It takes courage to step out of the line marked 'security' into the line marked 'risk.'

The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line.

Wales are obviously a team that like to play rugby in your half and put as many people as possible in the front line and get off the line and put pressure on you.

I have values. But morals are Christian. There's no religion here. Values. Don't hurt when you don't need to, but don't let anybody step over that line - it's an invisible line, but it's respect for somebody's space.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

You live your comedic life close to the edge, you're gonna cross the line and offend people.

The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically get the best.

In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes; and the town is blown sky-high in a stanza.

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

Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see what you liked about it.

There's a very fine line between anxiety and excitement. If you don't let anxiety stop you, you can nudge it over the line.

We are the fault line; if you don't deal with this fault line, you're going to have an earthquake, that's what we always said.

Speaking of line, what artist of line was ever able to find more depth and volume than Hirschfeld? He was an illustrator and a caricaturist, but first and foremost, an artist.

I think the Olsen twins' line, The Row, has some cool stuff. And I'm kind of obsessed with a clothing line called Stop Staring. It has a lot of vintage-type dresses that are retro '40s and '50s inspired.