#straight line

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#course #destination #distance #historical #line

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#failure #get #go #got #had

People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#appear #come #dead #ends #historians

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#does #line #nature #proceed #rather

I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs. ↗

— David Beckham

#disorder #everything #got #i #line

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#down #line #straight #straight line #up

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#depends #developed #economy #emancipate #how

The straight line is ungodly. ↗

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

#straight #straight line #ungodly

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#continues #every #except #insofar #line

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

#democracy #discovers #far #go #how