Red Lines Quotes:

If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will be yours

- James Jones

topic: Eye, This Life, Glances, Red Lines

What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power in Nature? Not one power, but two?

- Terrence Malick

topic: War, Heart, Sea, Avenging, Red Lines

That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?

- Sean Penn

topic: Men, Thinking, Differences, Red Lines

got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor's been.

- Tori Amos

topic: Suicide, Self Harm, Boys, Red Lines

I didn't set a red line, the world set a red line

- Barack Obama

source: "What Does America Think Of President Obama's 'Red Line?'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 4, 2013.

topic: World, Lines, Red, Red Lines

They dashed on towards that thin red line tipped with steel.

- William Howard Russell

source: On the Russians charging the British, in 'The British Expedition to the Crimea' (1877) p. 156. Russell's original dispatch to The Times, 25 October 1854, printed 14 November 1854 read: 'That thin red streak tipped with a line of steel'

topic: Red Lipstick, Lines, Steel, Red Lines

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Civilization, Library, Red, Red Lines

The black line is carbon emissions to date. The red line is the status quo - a projection of where emissions will go if no new substantial policy is passed to restrain greenhouse gas emissions.

- David Roberts

topic: Black, Lines, Red, Red Lines, Carbon Emissions

[Barack] Obama can draw lines for himself and his country, not for other countries. We have our red lines, like our sovereignty, our independence, while if you want to talk about world red lines, the United States used depleted uranium in Iraq, Israel used white phosphorus in Gaza, and nobody said anything. What about the red lines ? We don't see red lines. It's political red lines.

- Bashar al-Assad

source: Source: legrandsoir.info

topic: Country, Israel, Iraq, Uranium, Phosphorus

O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

- Rudyard Kipling

topic: Hero, Soul, Lines, Red Lines

When our embassy is attacked in Benghazi by terrorists and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Russia invades Ukraine and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Syria crosses the red line and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Iran launches tests of ballistic missiles and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When North Korea attacks Sony Pictures and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. In other words, Mrs. Clinton, you cannot lead from behind. We must respond when we are attacked or provoked.

- Carly Fiorina

source: "Fiorina: Trump is a Clinton Christmas gift, I'm the lump of coal; US doing enough to defeat ISIS?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2015.

topic: Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Embassy, Provoked

We finally know where the red line for climate really is. After the rapid melt of arctic ice in the summer of 2007, our best scientists, led by NASA's Jim Hansen, went back to work and produced a series of papers showing that with more than 350 ppm (parts per million) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we couldn't have a planet "similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted."

- Bill McKibben

topic: Summer, Ice, Civilization, Red Lines

I think it's too late. I think that there's been too much. This all started with the red line, walking away from it. The inability to arm the legitimate [Bashar] Assad opposition.

- John Kasich

source: Source: uk.businessinsider.com

topic: Thinking, Walking Away, Arms, Red Lines

It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying various roads and routes.

- Jack Kerouac

source: Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.93, Penguin

topic: Dream, Stupid, Ideas, Red Lines

We don't need a head of state who guts our defenses and draws phony red lines with a pink crayon.

- Oliver North

topic: Needs, Defense, Lines, Head Of State, Red Lines

When I was released by the Americans I read historian Trevor Roper's book, 'The Last Days of Hitler'. Throughout the book like a red line, runs an eyewitness report by Hanna Reitsch about the final days in the bunker. I never said it. I never wrote it. I never signed it. It was something they invented. Hitler died with total dignity.

- Hanna Reitsch

topic: Running, Book, Finals, Eyewitnesses, Bunkers

Sharks attack surfers because they look like a seal. Apparently, when you're layng on your board and you have your arms and legs hanging off, from underneath you look like a seal. So I just got a picture of a seal and put a red line through it and put it underneath my board.

- Henry Cho

topic: Sharks, Red, Boards, Arms And Legs, Red Lines

Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.

- Benjamin Netanyahu

topic: Light, Israel, Iran, Red Lights, Red Lines

The curly red lines across the African deserts had the fascination of a magnet, and I hoped fervently that the pioneers who were writing their names over the blank spaces, would leave just one small desert for me.

- Rosita Forbes

source: Rosita Forbes (1928). “Adventure”

topic: Writing, Names, Space, Blank Space, Red Lines

Ukraine is the instrument for Russia to test the West's 'red lines'

- Lilia Shevtsova

topic: Russia, Ukraine, Lines, Red Lines

I have a red line against the Americans.

- Muqtada al Sadr

topic: Lines, Red, Red Lines

Being in the flow of play, always follow the puck and be set early. It's something you don't think about because you think you have all those little things mastered when you get to [the NHL]. It comes back to being ready for any shot, no matter where it is from the [centre] red line in, and always having your stick on the ice. It's a subtle difference that makes you feel so involved in the game and it's really helped me.

- Jake Allen

source: Source: www.cbc.ca

topic: Thinking, Differences, Nhl, Red Lines

It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!

- Joey Santiago

topic: Waiting, Red Lipstick, Lines, Beaks, Red Lines

Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clear about the red lines for reconciliation, accept the constitution, lay down their weapons, cut their ties with al Qaeda and essentially become productive or at least participating members of society in that regard.

- David Petraeus

topic: Cutting, Ties, President, Red Lines

I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous. I really had a blast. We were all kind of thrown into the woods and we didn't have any of the modern conveniences that we take for granted. Learned how to survive without anything.

- Adrien Brody

topic: Military, Real, Exercise, Modern Conveniences, Boot Camp

Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge. Such rites demand, if they are to be meaningful at all, a certain amount of time spent precisely on the Red Line, where you can lean over the manicured putting green at the edge of the precipice and see exactly nothing.

- John L. Parker Jr.

source: "Once a Runner: A Novel". Book by John L. Parker, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.

topic: Meaningful, Racing, Training, Red Lines, Precipice

Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.

- Leon Panetta

topic: People, Political, Trying, Political Arguments, Red Lines

As long as Muslims cross this red line - if they commit crimes, if they start beating up women, if they start the genital mutilation, if they start to commit other crimes and honour killings as they unfortunately do in Western Europe many times - if they do that, I believe we should expel them, the same day if possible, from our country.

- Geert Wilders

topic: Country, Believe, Europe, Western Europe, Red Lines

What happened in Syria was, President [Barack] Obama had made a statement announcing what he called his "red line": You can't use chemical weapons, you can do anything else but [use] chemical weapons.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: President, Lines, Weapons, Chemical Weapons, Red Lines

Lie beside me. Let me see the division of your pores. Let me see the web of scars made by your family's claws and you their furniture. Let me see the wounds that they denied. The battle ground of family life that has been your body. Let me see the bruised red lines that signal their encampment. Let me see the routed place where they are gone. Lie beside me and let the seeing be healing. No need to hide. No need for either darkness or light. Let me see you as you are.

- Jeanette Winterson

source: Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Knopf

topic: Lying, Healing, Light, Encampment, Red Lines