Shapes Quotations

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as distinctive markers of Negritude. These include the shapes of heads, feet, lips, and noses as well as the texture of hair.

The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.

When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

Whenever you're looking at new ways to get in shape, first you have to decide what you want. Do you want a more muscular look, or do you want to slim down and appear more toned and ripped? I adapt my training and diet with each role I do, depending on the image I want to convey

Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.

I'm a real animal lover. I adore animals of all shapes and sizes.

One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.

I like architectural shapes. You can't put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel flattering.

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.

I went back over the sketch books I'd filled at Sheffield for ideas and discovered Wallace and Gromit, except Gromit was a cat then. I made them into Plasticene shapes and started 'A Grand Day Out.' It took me longer than I expected.

I love sunglasses, I have all shapes and colors.

Before computers, you'd start designing using shapes of cubes. Now I can start with something like a handkerchief, an object that doesn't have strong inside and outside boundaries or much closed volume.

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture.

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

I was in better shape when I went into boot camp than when I came out.

I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.

I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmountable and inspire others by showing them no matter where they are in their fitness goals, they can do it, too.

Having a Christian worldview shapes my decision-making with respect to all aspects of my life. I always respect people in public life who are principled, and those principles have to be connected to something. And my faith is what serves as the anchor and directs my actions.

The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself.

I have my 1973 Citroen DS 23 Pallas. I drive it all the time. It's still the most beautiful shape in the world.

I'm in great shape, back-in-my-football-days shape. I've worked hard to get to this point.

I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.

And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.

Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not.

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.

I walk a lot. It keeps me in shape and clears my head.

The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.

To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.

Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

There are a lot of great athletes who stop working out, and they get out of shape like everybody else in their 30s and 40s.

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

I am ready. I'm in great shape. My workouts have been great. I'm ready to get back and help a team get to the Super Bowl.

Pilates is my favorite meditative way to get in shape. I don't like the gym and I don't like running, so I just lay on my Pilates reformer. It's great.

I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not the most in shape person in the world.

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences - the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the scenes have the shape I think they have musically and dramatically.

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

Water, like many other resources, is harvested, transported and used throughout all aspects of society. Unlike other resources, water is critical to the survival of all forms of life. The underlying question that sits at the core of my exploration is to what degree can we shape water before it begins to shape us.

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.

The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.

Your body is like a machine, and if you don't keep it in shape, it holds you back. You don't want anything holding you back, especially yourself.

The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.

Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

The truths that are found in the Bible are universal truths. And it shapes who you are and guides you throughout your life.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned.

I train for about an hour five days a week and feel I'm in the best shape I've ever been. I can eat what I want and that includes scoffing half a big bar of Cadbury's a day.

I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.

It's easier to stay in shape than to fluctuate.

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found it necessary to discuss their shapes, and gives them no particular forms in his diagrams. That does not mean that the shapes are unimportant, but rather that the older methods could not define them.

I know people who've had a nose job, and they've walked out feeling a million dollars, and their confidence is tenfold. Good on them! Natural beauty comes in all different shapes and sizes, but if you think surgery would right something you have a problem with, then why shouldn't you do it?

We're Americans. We shape our own future. Let's start by standing up for President Barack Obama.

My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes.

I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.

I actually feel, in a lot of ways, that I'm in better shape than I was when I was 30.

When you're in shape, you don't have to walk up to somebody and say, 'Yo, I love myself.' You look like you care for yourself.

Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.

I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life.

Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.

I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.

I come from a family of tall, curvy women. I developed in my body and my shape far earlier, so from a young age I accepted it. I embraced it and saw it as an advantage.

The kinds of things I like with crystals are the really beautiful costume jewelry, vintage pieces, and they usually have that diamond shape.

There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.

It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.

When I am tanned and in shape I feel confident about my appearance.

Having cancer empowered me to take more risks. I knew beating cancer was going to shape me, but it wasnt going to be all of me.

I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.

The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.

There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye.

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.

I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.

Because of the shape of my eyes, I can wear a lot of make-up. I can do a smoky look in the evening, but in the day I wear a lot less. Most women don't deal with lip pencils - they have been given a bad name, but are essential, especially as we get older.