Contour Lines Quotes & Sayings

A deep river of must-have school mania runs through the chattering classes. There is, of course, the parental adrenaline rush at suburban cocktail parties that comes from announcing one's son or daughter as an Ivy Leaguer. — Sandra Tsing Loh

Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling. — Chelsea Clinton

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence. — Pythagoras

Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not, With the slightest push - in just the right place - it can be tipped. — Malcolm Gladwell

Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, our place, our daily world, our life; those maps of our private world we use every day; here I was happy, in that place I left my coat behind after a party, that is where I met my love; I cried there once, I was heartsore; but felt better round the corner once I saw the hills of Fife across the Forth, things of that sort, our personal memories, that make the private tapestry of our lives. — Alexander McCall Smith

Being crazy is not a pre-requisite for joining black ops." "No," said Daniel, thoughtfully. "But I think it helps. — Karen Miller

Never for an instant does God cease to speak; but no one thinks of opening the doors. And yet, with a little watchfulness, it were not difficult to hear the word that God must speak concerning our every act. — Maurice Maeterlinck

You're one third bad intentions, one third pure avarice, and one eighth sawdust. What's left, I'll credit, must be brains. — Scott Lynch

I've always felt very English. — David Hockney

He looked at Richard and the donut with great intensity, as if this were the donut that would fix Richard, as if there were certain donuts that were better for certain ailments, as if a donut could have curative powers. — A.M. Homes

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design. — Gianfranco Ferre

It's no longer history in the making.
It's our story we are making. — Natasha Tsakos

Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour ... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those parts of an object which are always most distant from the eye - namely its outlines. — Eugene Delacroix

Parents, first and foremost, it is important to ... understand and recognise the activities your child is naturally gravitating towards. It's important also to ensure that your child likes what he or she is doing. I believe in exposing children to as many hobbies and extracurricular activities as possible. — Viswanathan Anand

Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. — Edmund Waller

Paul teaches that mature Christians are serious about the things of God and pursue God seriously, because when Christ is revealed in all His glory, we want to be raised with Him. We want all the riches. We want Him with us always. We don't want a life-sized salvation; rather, we want an eternity-sized salvation. So we don't stop at conversion; we press on. Because we want to make it evident that we believe someone is going to step in at that final moment and say, "I paid for that. I absorbed that. What was due for that, I paid for it all, not according to their riches but according to Mine. — Matt Chandler