Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
Lewis Mumford

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
Norman Mailer

The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans.
Jim Cramer

We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.
Derek Jeter

If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.
Derek Jeter

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Elbert Hubbard

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
Marilyn vos Savant

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.
Jennifer Aniston

I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.
Neil Young

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
Bo Jackson

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Joseph Conrad

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Ross Perot

It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.
Dave Matthews

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
Jules Renard

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.
Vivienne Westwood

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
John Updike

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
Dag Hammarskjold

If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?
Douglas Horton

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.
Nicholas Sparks