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...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line." – Tom Robbins, _Skinny Legs and All_, 1990, p. 305.
A benefit given to the good is like characters engraven on a stone; a benefit given to the evil is like a line drawn on water. – Buddhist
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. – Samuel McChord Crothers
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one. – Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield. – Jerry Coleman
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. – G. K. Chesterton
Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game. – Rod Kanehl
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself. – William Cobbett
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself. – William Cobbett
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. – Henri Frdric Amiel
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer – George Price
Defining consultancy is a bit like defining the upper class every possible candidate draws the line just below himself. – John Peet
Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't. – Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Every persons are bounded within a secrete line. – Prakash Adhikari
Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them? – Benjamin Franklin
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. – Robert Benchley
Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. – Terry Lynn Taylor
Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives. – Terry Lynn Taylor
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour. – Helen Keller
I am sailing out along parallel 32.5 to stress that this is the Libyan border. This is the line of death where we shall stand and fight with our backs to the wall. (On planning confrontation with US Sixth Fleet in Mediterranean) – Muammar Qaddafi
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. – Elvis Presley
I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty-- never to know the pearl within! – Robert Anthony, The Man Who Would Never Be King
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. – Seneca
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. – George Carlin

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