Straight Quotes

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. (Phyllis Diller)
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. View quote
Helen Keller
Hierocles: You will never make the crab walk straight. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus) View quote
Aristophanes
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. View quote
Fred Hoyle
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. View quote
Norman Mailer
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it. View quote
W. C. Fields
If a woman walks with her head down - she has a lover! If a woman walks with her head proudly up - she has a lover! If a woman carries her head straight - she has a lover! And actually, if a woman has a head, she has a lover! View quote
Faina Ranevskaya
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. View quote
André Gide
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. View quote
Immanuel Kant
But they will give straight judgements to strangers and to the men of the land, and go not aside from what is just, their city flourishes, and the people prosper in it. (Hesiod)
Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. View quote
Zhu Rongji
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. View quote
Tennessee Williams
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. View quote
Garrison Keillor
The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God. View quote
Antoni Gaudí
To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time. View quote
Gregory Bateson
You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight. View quote
Barry Goldwater
Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you. View quote
Anna Quindlen
Look down at me and you see a fool; look up at me and you see a god; look straight at me and you see yourself. View quote
Charles Manson
Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids. (Bill Maher)
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. View quote
Isaac Newton
It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected. View quote
Gerald Ford
Hope is the most exciting thing in life, and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away, there is still that chance all through your life that it will. View quote
Josh Hartnett
Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line. View quote
Benoît Mandelbrot
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