Thin Line Quotes

I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.

Civilization is hideously fragile … there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

There's a thin line baby. A thing line between love and hate." -Cage York

There is a thin line between the policeman and the criminal. The best cops are always crossed. The best cops are the ones who are able to think like criminals. But for a quirk of fate, they might have been criminals.

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It's not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff.

The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.

I made up my mind I was going to walk that thin line between fame and oblivion.

People always think there's this huge hundred-foot-high barrier that separates doing good from doing bad. But there's not. There's nothing. There's not even a little anthill. You just take one baby step in any direction and you're already there. You've doing something awful. And your life is changed forever.

The hard part is that this is a very fine line. There's right on one side of it, and crazy on the other.

You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.

There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth.

As players, it's a thin line. You want to recover, but you also gotta get some practice time in.

It's cliche, but everybody says, 'We're all one song away,' and it's so true. The difference between me and the guy down the street busking with his guitar case open is just one song.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.

It's a slim margin of error in this league.

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure.

There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.