Drawing The Line Quotes by Oscar Wilde, Shonda Rhimes, Michael Skolnik, Margaret J. Wheatley, Felix Frankfurter, Huston Smith and many others.
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don’t keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That’s how we’re made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them
Stop the bullsh*t. Stop drawing lines in the sand like previous generations [have done].
You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We’ve chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.
The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Boundaries don’t keep other people out, they fence you in.
I close my eyes and can see men drawing lines in the dust. America pushes through the membrane of mist and smoke, and I’m a small boy again in Bogalusa.
A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.
