66 Quotes About Line

Known as a cliché or a one-liner, the line is a literary device that allows for an entire work to be conveyed in a single sentence. They can be funny, deep, tragic, profound, and many other things as well. Today we’ve rounded up some of the best and most inspiring lines from literature to help you express your feelings and inspire you to live by them.

Speak out off turn and you will surely be put...
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Speak out off turn and you will surely be put back in line. Anthony T.Hincks
The Word of God I think of as a straight...
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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
Some of us can live without a society but not...
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Some of us can live without a society but not without a family. Amit Kalantri
In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach...
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In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach. Amit Kalantri
You can take the Indian out of the family, but...
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You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian. Amit Kalantri
In your name, the family name is at last because...
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In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts. Amit Kalantri
The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking
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The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking Marvin Bell
...red sings like summer in the shadows, hot on my...
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...red sings like summer in the shadows, hot on my tongue... Nell Grey
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Are you wearing space pants?" Miranda asked him." What?" How did it end? oh, right. "Because your butt is fine." He gazed at her in that way he had like he was measuring her for straitjacket. "I think-" he started, then stopped and seemed to be having trouble talking. Cleared his throat three times before saying, "I think the line is 'because your butt is out of this world."" Oh. That makes a lot more sense. I can see that. See, I read this book about how to get guys to like you and they said it was a line that never failed but i got interrupted in the middle and the line before it was about china-not the country, the kind you eat off of-and that is where the fine part was but i must have gotten them confused. He just kept staring at her. Michele Jaffe
Never stand on one spot, always be doing something in...
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Never stand on one spot, always be doing something in line with your calling Sunday Adelaja
In everyone’s life, there is a line between reality and...
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In everyone’s life, there is a line between reality and dreams; but poets don’t have that line. M.F. Moonzajer
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.. Lines give birth to lines. Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.. Make a drawing flow, stopping sometimes, and going on.. Search for the simple constructive forces, line the lines of a suspension bridge. Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.. Have purpose in the places where lines stop. . Robert Henri
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She said she wanted my best line tomorrow after the show, and now I knew what it was going to be. Cora Carmack
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She shakily rushed towards the car to find Alecto casually standing beside it, smoking a cigarette and staring fixedly on the radio as it played the song 'Draggin’ the Line' by Tommy James, his expression thoughtful. “What are you thinking about?” Mandy questioned.“ Wouldn’t the world be a very loud place to live if we said everything we thought?” Alecto asked quietly. Rebecca McNutt
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My ship — the Demeter, was a star-liner operated by the Red Star Line. I say ‘was’ because of the events you will read about in this account. This is a long letter, I know, but I had quite a long time to write it. You probably already know this, having seen the commercials running on all the major channels for the last twenty years or so, but the Red Star Line is the largest cruise operator in the known universe. Unless something has changed between now and by the time you read this, this is probably still true. In fact, customers of the Red Star Line get more quality, value for money — and smiles by Demeter than they do anywhere else. Okay, okay. It’s an old joke — corny for sure, but what the hell. Christina Engela
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If in poetry court she was calledto testify on matters where I was condemned to imprisonment: parking my egoat a broken meter, line violations, forced rhyme, dealing stanzaics to children, shootingoff my mouth, getting cute, for even thislatest attempt at verse, she would tell the whole truth, she would admit from the pitof her unsung brilliance, from all of the paintings and poemsshe herself has been makingand storing in the vast empire of her singing soul, your Honor, my daughter is guiltyof plagiarizing my cells. Kristen Henderson
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There is a very thin line of demarcation between bravery and foolhardiness. Anurag Shourie
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Whatever I ‘align’’ myself with are the very things that will create a ‘line’ into my future. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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The line you tow is a sign that all will be fine! Israelmore Ayivor
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You may hit the bar, you may cross the forbidden line, you may cause many fouls, but when you stay on, you will definitely get your goals being the winning goals... Israelmore Ayivor
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The way to success is not a straight line segment. It's a dotted line with little packs of failure filling the potholes of broken edges inbetween. Israelmore Ayivor
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Never let someone who draws a line and say you can't cross it intimidate you. Don't be discouraged when someone says you can't do it. You might have been the only one sent to do it. Israelmore Ayivor
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It gets darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.” That line came back to me, from out of nowhere, and I decided to practice radical hope, hope in the face of not having a clue. Anne Lamott
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Everything is like a wall. Said a scholar to the troll. Bang your head to go on through. Then you'll see, there is no queue. Will Advise
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There's a thin line between love and hate. Maybe in his mind he's doing the right thing. Kayla Krantz
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When I was instructed to use medical oxygen to do my job at the W. M. Keck Observatory from 2001 to 2006, I was never told about the legal health information that is now posted on oxygen cylinders. My memories of the green medical oxygen cylinders that we would use daily is that they had no information on them and we were never given a recognised legal oxygen administration training course for routine daily use or a medical prescription from a doctor. We were shown the three oxygen cylinders at the facility and told to use them whenever we developed headaches, which was multiple times daily. It was common to find all three oxygen cylinders in use by other very high altitude workers and to have to line up to get a turn on the magical medical gas. Steven Magee
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Don't draw the line before stupidity. It'll take it as a start. Ljupka Cvetanova
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Seropusly, why do flies line up in the sky every time someone lies? Hovering over they long to take the shit out from where It belongs so They compete to eat it alive. Ana Claudia Antunes
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[T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food. Amit Chaudhuri
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A line is like a role model, It contributes in straightening our focus. DaVyshka
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You're my change of skin/ my summer-winter-fall/ I spring to follow you/ this loss is beautiful Maggie Stiefvater
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In the marathon of life, there is no finish line. Bill Courtney
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Before We BeginIs Your Bug A nice clean original car that looks almost like itleft the showroom yesterday? P. S. All work should be carried out in consultation with a reliable workshop manual with regard to torque settings, gaps, procedures, sequences disassembly, reassembly, where to hide the leftover parts, etc. I will accept no responsibility for anything resulting fromyou or anybody else trying anything as described in this document whatsoever — but if it works or you end up with some amusing stories to tell someone else’s grandchildren, please feel free to drop me a line. (No death threats please.) Sincerely, Christina Engela . Christina Engela
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Ask yourself what you will care about when everything is on the line. James C. Dobson
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Keep your hand moving. (Don’t pause to reread the line you have just written. That’s stalling and trying to get control of what you’re saying.) Natalie Goldberg
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When the thin line between love and hatred faded away completely, madness sprang back to life inside the numb hearts. Akshay Vasu
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Look, we need to make time, but we also need to be somewhat quiet." She faced him. "I am being quiet! " Pathik held a finger up to his lips. "Seriously. Quite. You don't really want to attract a lot of attention out here if you can help it." Rachel didn't like the sound of that. "Are there sheep-cats? Teri Hall
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It's a thin line between what we're calling acceptable and not acceptable. As a leader, you're supposed to know when not to cross it. But how do you know? Does the army teach us how to control our emotions? Does the army teach us how to deal with a friend bleeding out in front of you? No. David Finkel
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IF you draw a line in the sand you betray the loyalty of your cause Robert Wesley Miller
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Ethnic conflict is a line between religion and stupidity. M.F. Moonzajer
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God’s reaction towards things is different from ours and He wishes that our reaction will line up with His Sunday Adelaja
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Sorry, folks, but the maximum occupancy is seventy-five, ” Albert said. Then he spotted Jack. “Jack, how’s it going?”“ What? Oh, fine.” Jack was confused as to how to proceed. He didn’t want to wait in line if Brianna wasn’t even inside.“ You look like a man with a question, ” Albert prompted.“ Well, I’m kind of looking for Brianna. We had this…it’s a…tech thing. You wouldn’t understand.”“ Breeze is already inside.” One of the kids in the line said, “Of course she is, she’s a freak. They always get in.” A second kid nodded. “Yeah, the freaks don’t wait in lines. Bet she didn’t have to pay, either.” Albert said, “Hey, she got here a little before you guys did and she waited. And she paid.” Then to Jack. “Go ahead in.”“ See?” the first kid crowed. “He’s one, too.”“ Dude, he set up my sound system, ” Albert said. “What have you done for me other than stand here and bust on me?. Michael Grant
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Time passed at an accelerated pace. They could be sitting in traffic or talking on the phone or waiting in line for a movie, and their time felt precious, important, worthwhile. Galt Niederhoffer
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There's a thin line between an uncertain 'Yes' and a certain 'No' known as 'lame indecisiveness'. Aniruddha Sastikar
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Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. Mark Twain
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If you are approachable, if you keep your line of communication open, then very often, you get to hear what you need to hear. Arundhati Bhattacharya
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I have a very open line of communication with both my children. Gloria Estefan
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My famous line is 'Product is king.' Joy Mangano
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it. Omar Khayyam
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away. Robert Henri
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Chris Parnell's a genius, so he'd be amazing on 'Who's Line.' Aisha Tyler
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The bottom line is, if you're pregnant, don't travel to an area where Zika is spreading. Tom Frieden
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There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination. Jeb Bush
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There's a fine line between patriotism and corn. David L. Wolper
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The design of 'Love Actually, ' the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so many times. Martin Freeman
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Design my own line? No, I just like the culture. ASAP Rocky
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We spent a lot of time trend forecasting and collaborating on ways to design a fresh line of fashion-forward, affordable luxury. Kourtney Kardashian
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One thing I longed to do was to design a complete look, from head to toe, so I started a make-up line in 1966. Mary Quant
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I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined. Edmund White
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. Joseph Conrad
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When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology. Howard Rheingold
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Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'. Steven Spielberg
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I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow. Jonathan Galassi
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I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters. Bear Grylls
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I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line. Ellsworth Kelly