"A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides."
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"Happiness is not about the trophy, or the finish line. It's the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your life"
"There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher."
"Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line."
"Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line."
"To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines."
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code."
"Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human. Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, "This is me and the world be damned!" Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society - Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line."
"You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line."
"If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur."
"Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat."
"We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth."
"Our men and women in uniform put their lives on the line for our nation every day; they should not have to jeopardize their financial well-being as well."
"Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away."
"Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution."
"We decided to redefine the bottom line at Ben & Jerry's"
"I am a big believer that everybody has unusual, and certainly untapped, potential. The more people like that we can line up with their skill set and with their abilities, the more success we get to have."
"I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all."
"Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion."
"There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed."
"A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle."