Line

Famous quotes containing the word line:

    “I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front line of defense against the anti-Christ of Communism.”
    —Frank Buchman (1878–1961)

    “As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand know what your left hand does in that line of business. It will prove a failure.... It is a greater strain than any soul can long endure. When you get God to pulling one way, and the devil the other, each having his feet well braced,—to say nothing of the conscience sawing transversely,—almost any timber will give way.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “This is something that I cannot get over—that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.”
    —Karl Kraus (1874–1936)