Quotes of: Straight-line Keyword

Kiyoko: The future is not a straight line. It is filled with many crossroads. There must be a future that we can choose for ourselves.

Akira

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

Andrew Davies

Life is not a circle. It is a straight line that has ups and downs.

In the beginning, Man Created God

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

A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

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

Isaac Newton

[first lines] Dorothy: Hi Rose. Rose 'Rosie' Straight: Hi Dorothy. Alvin Straight: [can be heard collapsing inside his house]

The Straight Story

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.

Erica Jong

Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves. Broken lines do not know what...

René Crevel

[last lines] Lyle Straight, Alvin's Brother: Did you ride that thing all the way out here to see me? Alvin Straight: I did, Lyle.

The Straight Story

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.

Molloy

Blanche DuBois: Straight? What's 'straight'? A line can be straight, or a street. But the heart of a human being?

A Streetcar Named Desire

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 ...

Daniel H. Wilson

Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines.

Hideki Yukawa

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.

Tennessee Williams

The thing I've noticed about life is that it just keeps coming at you. And it can be a real bummer. What you need to remember is that you're not alone. You've got friends and family. That's how we get by. We talk and share and eat cake and giggle in ...

A Straight Line to My Heart

For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them to remain where they are, or to move other-wise than in a straight line, These rectilinear motions of these four e...

Maimonides

The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

Elisabeth Elliot

History, the way the teachers liked it, was a racetrack, a straight shot from start to finish line; life itself was more of a maze.

The Evil We Love

On sunny days of summer, I am indeed the butterfly; And like the ancient drummer, I rhythm straight towards the sky...

The Rising Lines of Wonderment: Poetry

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

Sam Donaldson

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must picture God as the whole page on which the line is drawn. We come to the parts of the line one by one: we have to leave A behind before we get to B, and cannot reach ...

Mere Christianity