Top 440 Line Quotes

If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
Andrew Jackson
Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can’t say right now, but maybe some years down the line, I would realise. When I was taking chemotherapy, there were a lot of elderly patients, and that would inspire me. I thought, ‘If they can be cured, why can’t I be?’
Yuvraj Singh
To be honest, after you’ve crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control – you might get some food if you’re lucky. You might see family if you’re lucky.
Victoria Pendleton
I finally realized the happy medium, ‘honey blonde’ was the correct color and line for me.
Ann Sothern
The bottom line is a record of ideas. The bottom line is a plan for how to get this country back on track. It’s not about attendance – it’s about goals and opportunity to move this nation forward.
Cory Gardner
I think all of us who kind of live within the sport recognize that Davis Cup certainly could be a little more visible if perhaps there were some adjustments made to it, and it was made a little bit more easy to understand for the fans, if there’s a little bit more of a start and finish line.
Jim Courier
The Finnish way of dealing with Russia, whatever the situation, is that we will be very decisive to show what we don’t like, where the red line is.
Sauli Niinisto
I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
Elvis Presley
I try to write very fast. I don’t revise very much. I write the poem in one sitting. Just let it rip. It’s usually over in twenty to forty minutes. I’ll go back and tinker with a word or two, change a line for some metrical reason weeks later, but I try to get the whole thing just done.
Billy Collins
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
Abraham Verghese
Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
Mark Twain
My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from ‘The Onedin Line’ to ‘Hedda Gabler’ with Dame Diana Rigg.
Samantha Bond
The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don’t enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like.
Michael Badnarik
I’ve been really lucky over the years with my health. To me, one major surgery at 27 years old isn’t so bad considering my line of work.
Adam Cole
Why should I dislike anything about my appearance? I came off the factory line this way. I am perfect.
Shonda Rhimes
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.
Dean Kamen
None of us, no matter how perfect, can claim that the building of a new society and the marshalling of a former liberation movement into a modern political party all happen in a straight line.
Jacob Zuma
I always thought my jaw line was manly. I have this pockmark on my chin from when I was 9. I used to get freaked out about it because people thought it was a pimple. But those are the things I’ve become really comfortable with as I’ve gotten older. My scars.
Rosario Dawson
My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I’m half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating.
Meghan Markle
In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labour in one particular line, but this is in order that the engine may bring us in a much larger return in another line.
Ada Lovelace
American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent’s goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.
David Mamet
Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.
Jason Fried
They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
Adam Petty
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
John Updike
If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.
Elon Musk
Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there’s more need for affiliation.
Daniel Goleman
I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.
Mary Oliver
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball
I guess the line between being paranoid and being a roc

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.
Brian Molko
We just want to win. That’s the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don’t really reflect on what we’ve done in the past. We focus on the present.
Derek Jeter
For me beauty is valued more than anything – the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
Oscar Niemeyer
Everything ends; you just have to figure out a way to push to the finish line.
Jesse Itzler
That’s what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you’re hitting a line or making it funny.
Jennifer Aniston
I’m a culinary gangsta with a very spiritual side, so when I was introduced to the ‘spiritual gangster’ line, I had to have it.
Guy Fieri
Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, ‘Hi Bob’ and I’d have to do it five times, and then Bob would take me to the writers to say the line different ways. He wouldn’t let me ad-lib.
Don Rickles
But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?
Joichi Ito
We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there’s a chance of winning back the party.
Shirley Williams
We can stand in line to buy groceries, we can stand in line to ride at Six flags, and we can stand in line for things that we think are very important.
Marjorie Taylor Greene
The coronation is a symbol of power, but it’s not a symbol for us the people. It’s a symbol for that person, who is a human, to become a higher being and become one with God. The church, the scepter, and the crown have been around forever. And the line of kings of England goes back thousands of years.
Claire Foy
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line.
James H. Douglas, Jr.
I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.
Robert Dallek
Today on the NATO line, our military forces face east to prevent a possible invasion. On the other side of the line, the Soviet forces also face east to prevent their people from leaving.
Ronald Reagan
I want to be relatable. I want people to know who I am, but that doesn’t mean you get to know everything about me and my life. I think that there’s a fine line.
Lili Reinhart
There’s is a fine line between living one’s truth and looking good.
Amala Akkineni
I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven’t had very good modeling in submission.
Faye Wattleton
My tag line for ‘Silver Linings’ is this: It’s about a man who thinks his life is a movie produced by God.
Matthew Quick
When God created the world, he didn’t draw a line between Canada and America.
Marianne Williamson
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
Vaclav Havel
Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There’s no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he’s doing an acting job.
Joan Rivers
Coming from the world of animation, every single line counts; every single gesture counts. You put thought into every single one of those things and the way a frame is composed.
Travis Knight
I’d want to start being a creative director of a specific line, like Adidas, for example. If they called me up to collaborate on something, I would do it.
J Balvin
The Hollywood Film Awards were really stressful. It was the biggest press line I’d ever seen.
Lupita Nyong’o
Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Benjamin Disraeli
Poverty is everyone’s problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.
Kathleen Blanco