Top 1200 Straight People Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

It all happened so fast. Someone slammed the brakes and there was no way to go, just straight into it.

'Shadow and Bone' was my first book, and I think I was unconsciously echoing a lot of the fantasy that I had grown up with, which sets a kind of default for straight white characters. And that's something I've tried to improve on as I write, to write more authentically and reflect the people around me in the world, around me more realistically.

Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.

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

One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with common sense and decency, .. The considered judgment of the American people is not going to rise or fall on the fine distinctions of a legal argument but on straight talk and the truth. It is time for the president and the Congress to follow that common sense for the good of the country.

The gate is straight, Deep and wide, Break on through to the other side...

When you acknowledge God, He will go before you and make the crooked places straight.

Raising minimum wage doesn't just benefit the workers behind me, it creates a proven ripple effect that increases wages all the way up the scale. ... Let's get the facts straight, only 20 percent of people making the minimum wage are teenagers. The rest are hardworking adults, many of them with families, and I mean hardworking.

There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.

If you commit yourself to the love of Christ, then that is how you run a straight race.

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight face always adding a qualifying paragraph noting that mathematicians however say that two plus two still equals four.

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

I studied photography in high school, and straight away, I knew it was something I was interested in.

I don't want the staggeringly wealthy Elton John and his family to represent the standard of gay fatherhood any more than straight people want the stunningly beautiful Angelina Jolie and her family to represent the standard of heterosexual parenthood. Stars are outliers; stars are exceptions.

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.

I know I can never work in a comedy because I can't keep a goddamn straight face.

I don't want to face the reality of what people want from a female pop star. Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.

Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone.

That's what I really focused on in school - straight drama - and I would love to get an opportunity to do that.

When you see an object, it seems that you see it as an entire thing first, and only afterwards do its details follow on. But for people with autism, the details jump straight out at us first of all, and then only gradually, detail by detail, does the whole image float up into focus.

It doesn't help anyone to judge their happiness or career by looking at where others may or may not be. Dad said it best: 'All the time you're looking left and right at other people, you're neglecting what's in front of you.If you focus on looking straight ahead, you can take the odd glance at the future.' He's got a way of saying things sometimes that just puts everything into perspective.

You know my issue isn't whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven. The point that I'm trying to make is that we as believers can have security in Christ when we are believers. We will all struggle, we will all fall prey to some type of sin, some will fall prey to the same types of sin over and over again. I don't differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.

Let me tell you something about myself. I am a straight shooter.

Even if we do not walk together on the straight path, as long as we have the same destination, that is what's important.

Not only do I not hate gay people, I actually accept them for who and what they are. They always seem happy and most of them I met are very kind and nice individuals. Yes, and like most straight guys I joke around with the whole gay thing and I see it as comedy, not saying that's right or wrong but I don't do it out of hate.

For the rest of your life you must check the box on employment applications asking the dreaded question: "Have you ever been convicted of a felony?" And once you check that box, the odds are sky high that your application is going straight to the trash. Hundreds of professional licenses are off-limits to people convicted of felonies.

Ride your horse calm, forward and then make him straight.

I knew it straight away when Twitter first came around, and also Facebook, where it was so easy to post, that this was another way to speak directly with people listening to my music. If they found my music and they like it, most likely they want to hear more from me and hear what I'm about. I've put an enormous amount of time into that and it's played out well for me.

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make people shudder at their own lies, will be to make them open up and be straight with one another. Swift and Rabelais and Sterne accomplished a step in that direction, and Burroughs another.

There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.

Straight photography, following the medium, is intoxicating - trying to wrestle it into the form of a poem.

Meditation is the straight flight of the mind to the Kingdom of Heaven present in the heart of everyone.

If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.

Growing up, I wanted straight hair so bad, like Justin Bieber.

Drinking helps us to forget what we are, we leave the office and walk straight to the bar.

Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of reticence.

Having my daughter, I screamed for twenty-three hours straight. And that was just during conception.

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

In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot.

Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.

I was a goody two shoes - a straight-A girl, and I took pride in my studies.

Most screenplays I receive are boring, and some are straight-out bad.

I'm the kid in school who always, you know, got the straight A's. I got to be that, you know, alpha aggressive work-ethic guy. And to have people assume that I was just this blithe, in-your-face guy writing crap, tossing it off, garnering insane amounts of money, and laughing all the way to the bank - frankly, I guess I got sensitive.

There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.

Sometimes I have so many financial conflicts of interest that I can't even keep them straight.

Whether you’re gay, straight, divorced, on drugs, a prostitute… I don’t care. Be who you are and love who you want.

So long as men and women are free, no one is safe. People will be in danger because others can't operate vehicles responsibly or shoot straight. Because physicians are sometimes incompetent and lawyers dishonest. But most of all they will be in danger from ideas. It is the price we willingly pay to be free. Nor would we have it any other way.

The day I graduated, I skipped the ceremony to go straight to California for the dot-com boom.

I want to make someone walk straight, but I've left my sons nothing but wars.

Universal woke us up with a movie called 'Straight Outta Compton.'

I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned - didn't know whether I was stoned or straight.

I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.

Jerry Falwell can go straight to hell - and I mean that in a Christian way.

What I learned from people like Carlos Santana is that you cannot get too happy after working for five years in the industry. It takes years and years, and I learned to keep a straight head and keep on working harder and harder.

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

When I was about seventeen, I had a group called the Young Jazz Giants. We played all originals. When we would finish playing, people would be like, 'Oh my God, that was so nice, that was so great.' But Pops would never tell us we were the best. He would give it to us straight, like, 'You're out of tune. You're dropping beats.'

Then a lightning bolt shot straight through my skivvies. Sha-ZAM!