Straight Quotes
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What course am I to take? Towards danger; but not too rashly, nor too straight.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
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Poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.
Marjorie Holmes -
We were a duo on tour, but it was his music and his songs. I was kind of his Vanna White/singing partner/torch-song singer. I was the straight man to his funny man.
Leslie Feist Broken Social Scene -
Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.
John Milton -
I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.
Ric Keller -
Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.
Yevgeny Zamyatin -
It's been a frustrating summer especially as I've done the hard work getting into the 30s but I know I've got to play patiently and straight.
B. R. Hayden
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He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray.
Lao Tzu -
Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.
Confucius -
Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, were moved to a grave at Minstead Churchyard, Hampshire.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
I hear from all different people, not just people like me, or lesbians. It be straight people, it be grown men, it be grown women, people that have been sick or depressed that say, 'Oh, you made me want to go do what I want to do for myself and chase my dreams.' That's my purpose.
Young M.A -
Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.
Immanuel Kant -
I keep my head straight toward my goal.
Francis Ngannou
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Bakery air is that steaming hot front of thick, buttery fumes waiting for you just inside the door of a bakery. And I am just going to tell you straight up: That is some fine air!
Neil Pasricha -
Trees don't grow even, they don't grow straight just however it makes them happy.
Bob Ross -
The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can't do for another straight man.
Ben Affleck -
The most straight seems curved.
Lao Tzu -
I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell.
Will Carleton -
The straight path must sometimes be crooked.
Carole Wilkinson
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Football is what keeps me going, what makes me prosper, and what will keep me straight.
William Green -
Let’s get one thing straight: Mexican food takes a certain amount of time to cook. If you don’t have the time, don’t cook it. You can rush a Mexican meal, but you will pay in some way. You can buy so-called Mexican food at too many restaurants that say they cook Mexican food. But the real food, the most savory food, is prepared with time and love and at home. So, give up the illusion that you can throw Mexican food together. Just understand that you are going to have to make and take the time.
Denise Chavez -
You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself.
Athanasius -
The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.
Lao Tzu