The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

Feeling sad or lonely isn't a bad thing. But those emotions increase the risk that you'll cross the line into self-pity.

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

The guy who could be me, but he knows when to draw the line, is John Cena. John Cena can rock 'n' roll, let me tell you.

I think that people like to put you down to one line - a synopis of some kind. And I just don't pay any attention to it.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.

Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol.

There is a very thin line dividing characterisation from impersonation. I've to make sure I don't cross over into mimicry.

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

To me, the thing is, through good or bad, if you're a Knicks fan, you're down with the Knicks, and that's the bottom line.

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

We need to separate marketing messages from content. We need to enforce a clear line between 'editorial' and 'advertising.'

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

In 'Notting Hill,' I was part of a whole plot line over six scenes that was completely taken out. That was rather depressing.

There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Quarterbacks like guys who try to do everything they can for them and put it on the line for them. So that's what I try to do.

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.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

I've always thought the word cow was funny. And cows are sort of tragic figures. Cows blur the line between tragedy and humor.

With a line of six in the defence and then three in front of that, it's not always easy to find the spaces to score the goals.

You don't make peace with your friends. That's the bottom line. You end conflicts by trying to find some political resolution.

To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It's not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff.

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.

You can look at it and say I'm doing this better or that better, but the bottom line is, I just learned to be mentally tougher.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.

As a matter of fact I don't like politics. I really don't. I think it's so jaded now and everybody has to follow the party line.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

Can a nation use the methods of terrorism? Can it harm innocent civilians in the process? What are the costs? Where is the line?

It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.

The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?

A great melodic line is like a person's soul, and coming up with an original melody, it can be like you are illustrating the soul.

When I first started, I wore Ceil Chapman gowns. I've been wondering for years what happened to the Ceil Chapman line of clothing.

A Conservative government under Andrew Scheer would implement a coherent China strategy, taking a harder line on China's missteps.

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

I had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, 'Why is our band sometimes a punch line?'

Mental health and sobriety is not a straight line, and 'Drag Race' is a family, and we support our family members through anything.

Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.

If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.

I sit a lot with my lyrics - I don't write just to write or put a line in just to have one. Everything has to mean something to me.

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