Crooked Lines Quotes:

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

- C. S. Lewis

topic: God, Men, Ideas, Straight Lines, Apologetic

God draws straight with crooked lines.

- Andrew Greeley

source: Andrew Greeley (2008). “Common Ground: A Priest and a Rabbi Read Scripture Together”, p.219, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

topic: Catholic, Lines, Draws, Crooked Lines

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

- Sun Myung Moon

topic: Distance, Two, Long, Straight Lines, Crooked Lines

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

- Alfred Nobel

topic: Believe, People, Lines, Crooked Lines

God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding man and even of turning his wrong ways into right ways...The feast of Christ the King is therefore not a feast of those who are subjugated, but a feast of those who know that they are in the hands of the one who writes straight on crooked lines.

- Pope Benedict XVI

topic: Kings, Writing, Men, Wrong Way, Crooked Lines

These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, "We'll just follow this cat, and wherever he sits down, we'll build something.

- Maureen Johnson

source: John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.69, Penguin

topic: Cat, House, Lines, Crooked Lines

Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.

- Arthur Miller

topic: Distance, Two, Evil, Political Leadership, Crooked Lines