A moment comes in war when the last lines must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold a from what total war demands. If he couldn't cross that line, the battle was over, and he was lost.
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Related A moment comes in war when the last line must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold dear... RICK YANCEY A girl's life was defined by lines: fine lines, hairlines, bikini lines, class lines, the tightrope ... THEA DEVINE That was what crossed the line, ED RENDELL I couldn't believe when he hit that last 3-pointer from about 15 feet beyond the line, but what can ... AARON GRAY Luis said to me that as he turned away, he was right on the line, and he said the ball was over the ... RAFAEL BENITEZ Every once in a while there is a moment where everything comes together. A moment when the thin line... TOM KRAUSE I remember being a kid, and if you had to pee, well, you had to hold it until the commercial break. ... AMERICA FERRERA The artist must see the war with a unique vision. If he doesn't, then he hasn't added anything to ou... WILLIAM EASTLAKE It's from a Ronald Reagan quote. He was talking about when the Cold War is going to be over. GEORGE HIGGINS If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER He was about to cross a point of no return. The place separating him from the imaginary line in the ... JAIME ALLISON PARKER What separates him is how he respects you and how he cares for you off the field, not just on the fi... BRANDON STOKLEY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross. SUZANNE COLLINS Across the field I saw the line judge (Rick Page), and he was shaking his head no. TONY HAYNES I put everything in that last lap, it was very emotional when I crossed the line. It was all I had, ... SEBASTIAN VETTEL There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes ... MARIANNE MOORE There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line... PAUL PIERCE The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book ... ROBERT FISK Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what... RALPH BOSTON My father wanted to be a hero. He went to the Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, and then he foun... PATTY JENKINS That's the good thing about it. Nothing counts except what's goin' on around you. H.L. DAVIS The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly organ... THOMAS VIAN That deputy crossed the line, and he should be arrested for it. There should be justice done. MARIELA CARRION The war defined a lot of things. Whatever he saw over there, he appreciated life here, and he apprec... MARILYN WEEKS That’s the cost. That’s the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans,... RICK YANCEY If he was going to beat us, it would be from the line. BUD OGDEN For the want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost;
For the want of a horseshoe a horse was lost;
For th... UNKNOWN Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you ... DEYTH BANGER I don't want the F-B-I to forget what a primary change of direction for them has been since Nine-Ele... CHUCK GRASSLEY [PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- James Starnes will never forget the day World War II officially ended with ... JAMES STARNES [PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - James Starnes will never forget the day World War II officially ended with J... JAMES STARNES He looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the mome... SARAH J. MAAS I knew Josh was on the black line, and when (the official) called that, I knew right away what he wa... GREG SOLIZ The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. JIM HARRISON I think our defensive line played very well today. That was the big difference from this week and la... PAUL POSLUSZNY He crossed the line between eccentricity and idiocy far too often for someone who was supposed to be... IAN BOTHAM What the tapes show is that between the first gulf war and the second gulf war, Saddam Hussein had n... GARY MILHOLLIN He was going to be the glue in that offensive line. SEAN CALLAHAN He was clutch at the line, was 5 for 8 from the 3-point line. He just had a tremendous game. On defe... DENNY BAILEY Games are won and lost at the free throw line. And that's what happened to us. We were just 6-of-18 ... CRAIG WITMER One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war s... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war s... WINSTON CHURCHILL One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war s... WINSTON S. CHURCHILL the most important and stunning discovery I made at art school was the ability to live by the single... CHUCK JONES I think a line was crossed; there was a rebate and that is just not permitted. JOHN BOGLE No one will remember us, out footprints erased, our legacies wiped out, our children and their child... RICK YANCEY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Even when he was in Iraq fighting a war, he was always smiling, ANTHONY MARTINEZ In 1942, Ted Williams' draft status was 1A, meaning he was going to be among the first people to go ... LARRY HARTZELL Gen. Mattis is a warrior. What I appreciate about Gen. Mattis is he understands the principle that i... RYAN ZINKE For better or worse, we’d ended those nights together. Not last night, and when he left me alone, ... MEREDITH WILD He had one scene, one scene, and I think he had one line. And he was a director, and I was the actor... NICK NOLTE From the moment our paths crossed, what was mattered no more. THUTHULA NAMHLA DLEPU The United States lost more men from battle wounds and disease in the Civil War than in any other wa... RICHARD WEAVER I was wide open. He overthrew me a little bit. I don't know if there was pressure at the line or wha... CHANSI STUCKEY Noah was just fantastic. He was obviously feeling really good, and he hit a lot from the line. DENNIS FELTON He demanded a lot from all of us, but I think he put more pressure and demands on himself. That's wh... JAMAL MAYERS I would not want to be the one to tell parents of the last
man to die in a war termed a mistake that... UNKNOWN It's really God's intention that we come together and be one. Every line you think of that would div... KAREN HARRIS I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the sh... WALTER CRONKITE Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only... A. J. P. TAYLOR If Michael really felt that Rubens deserved the win, all he had to do was slow down and cross the li... JACQUES VILLENEUVE When we Shienarans ride, every man knows who is next in line if the man in command falls. A chain un... ROBERT JORDAN Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it t... JEFF GANNON And far more dangerous than greed or lust or envy or any of those things—or anything—was love. RICK YANCEY What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in... L. NEIL SMITH If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be tru... IAN MCEWAN When George spotted the pinup girl of his fondest fantasies across that cheesy bar, he had no idea w... KRISTEN CASEY Was Castro sincere when, during his guerrilla war, he swore that he was not a Communist? If so, when... STEPHEN KINZER We lost the battle but not the war. The war begins Sunday. HIGINIO VELEZ The league needs to be a bit more forceful, as they have been in other rules and regulations, when i... LAMELL MCMORRIS There are two influences ever present in the world. One is constructive and elevating and comes from... GEORGE ALBERT SMITH You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was fo... HAL HOLBROOK Can you not see that we still might win? We lost a battle, not a war. KAREN ESSEX He threw a punch at the everyman, at the typical Russell Crowe fan -- he really crossed the line. TOM O'NEIL It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad tha... J.R.R. TOLKIEN My paternal grandfather, when he was in the army in World War II - he was over in the South Pacific,... STURGILL SIMPSON Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what... AKON France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war. CHARLES DE GAULLE What mattered was stil there. That was what they all felt, and what surprised them all. What mattere... JODI LYNN ANDERSON Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered t... A. J. P. TAYLOR The city?" Tyrion was lost. "What city would that be?" "King's Landing. I am sending you to cou... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The battle belongs to the Lord, and we already know that He wins the war. JARED BROCK It?s definitely a bonus having Ed back. It?s not only me that?s a vet now. He knows what goes in on ... JAY ALFORD I stepped over the boundary ... I crossed the line, ... I've worked very hard, and you know what? I ... WILLIAM CROWLEY Every ship has an anchor to hold it in place, and Casey is the anchor of our defensive line. Everyth... BRETT KEISEL What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the art... JEAN COCTEAU And he helped bring out the wounded, and the colors. You did not lose your colors in battle. And it ... GAYLE ALVAREZ I communicated with him regularly on e-mail. He was always upbeat about the war and believed in what... BOB MARIANO The war was over, ... They were defeated by the time he dropped those bombs -- I think he wanted to ... THOMAS GRAY The deformity of Christ forms you. If he had not willed to be deformed, you would not have recovered... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he w... NATHANIEL PHILBRICK Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER That was huge. We were in a zone and he brought them back. He was three or four feet behind the line... BRIAN CLODI When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German until he ... GEN MAXWELL D. TAYLOR We are moving towards a total mockery of constitutionalism. The president has crossed the line of po... WOLE SOYINKA A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between her... DEAN KOONTZ
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PHILIP YANCEY the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the hau... PHILIP YANCEY Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Not... PHILIP YANCEY As Dennis Covington has written, "Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more me... PHILIP YANCEY Suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope."7-19 He lists hope at... PHILIP YANCEY As a Jewish rabbi put it, "A man should carry two stones in his pocket. On one should be inscribed, ... PHILIP YANCEY I have found consolation, for example, in C. S. Lewis's depiction in The Great Divorce of hell as a ... PHILIP YANCEY We have a lot of distractions that come with homecoming week. Sylacauga got their first win the othe... FRED YANCEY We knew we had to contain Thompson's quarterback. They gave us a great effort defensively. FRED YANCEY This was a big win for us. I thought our kids did a great job playing wire-to-wire and working their... FRED YANCEY Why the delay? Why does God let evil and pain so flagrantly exist, even thrive, on this planet?...He... PHILIP YANCEY I want to learn from them. I want to do what I can to make a difference. JANAY YANCEY I think that will be amazing. It's always been a dream of mine to play big time volleyball. JANAY YANCEY I love the fact that they have a new coach. We just clicked automatically. (Coach Stubbs) was a frie... JANAY YANCEY It's great. I set a goal for myself and I reached it. Now I've got to set a new one and keep on goin... JANAY YANCEY I chose the school that I though would be best for me. There were a lot of different things between ... JANAY YANCEY Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution. PHILIP YANCEY We're looking forward to getting to the championship game, but our thoughts will be about winning (t... WAYNE YANCEY You've got to give Carl Junction a lot of credit. They came out and kept getting after us. YANCEY LITTLE Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities. RICK WARREN I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues... RICK DERRINGER If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already hav... RICK PERRY And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting st... RICK PERRY It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have... RICK RIORDAN All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of... RICK RIORDAN During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. ... RICK WARREN Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. RICK WARREN You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies. RICK WARREN Some of the pictures in 'The Human Face of Big Data' will bring tears to your eyes; others a... RICK SMOLAN The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomi... RICK PERRY As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of Ame... RICK RENZI Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyon... RICK PITINO Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect... RICK MOODY In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. An... RICK RUBIN We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit;... RICK PERRY I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a ... RICK ASTLEY This whole blogging stuff has been bugging me for years. Talk about no filter on things. People feel... RICK MORANIS I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundr... RICK MORANIS