Shapes Quotations | Page 10

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

A gasline will help shape our economic future - the same way that oil has shaped our economic present.

Down the well," Angela repeated, and had to go sit down and hold on to her letter opener. It was in the shape of a dagger. Angela said holding it soothed her; seeing Angela hold it did not soothe Kami.

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

Next time you meet a 'foreigner', remember it's only like a window with a different shape to it and the person who's sitting inside is you.

I enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape.

Some people just don't want to put in the effort. I just show up and say some lines and I'm famous. Anyone living below the poverty line just needs to shape up or be shipped out, you know?

You are responsible for how your life turns out, and your attitude shapes that life for better or worse.

He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.

Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.

All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shapes, but always in cost.

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.

Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.

so full of shapes is fancy

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared

The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.

Every single moment shapes our future. Be intentional. Live on purpose!

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.

We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate

A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.

K, n. A consonant; originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of [one of two lofty columns in] the great temple of Jarute.

It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me.

Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shapes our ends.

Each of us has the potential to contribute ... You have a great opportunity to make a new shape of the world.

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.

We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

The essentials of being a person of my type lies precisely in what they think and how they think, not in what they do. Your thoughts shape you.

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out.

The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

The visions we offer our children shape the future.

I cannot conceive of a greater wounding of the heart of Christ than to pay reverence to anything in the shape of a cross, or to bow before a crucifix!

So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical.

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.

Rashly, And praised be rashness for it--let us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will

But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven.

What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.

God can take anything that happens to us-even bad things-and use it to shape us and make us into a better, more Christlike person-if we let Him.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me ... shapes and ideas so near to me ... so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.

A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.

If some confectioners were willing To let the shape announce the filling, We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs, Bitten into and returned to the box.

International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.

Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.

It exists under different shapes in all Governments...but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy.

It is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the material atoms out of whose intricate relationships that mind is built are altogether trivial.

All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.

Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic.

I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.

There are as many characters in men As there are shapes in nature.

I'm in shape. Round is a shape.

We kind of shape our truths as we speak them. We fashion things to suit the occasion or the person or our own needs in the moment.

The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words.

School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to be at least paint as I wanted to and say what I wanted to when I painted as that seemed to be the only thing I could do that didn't concern anybody but myself ... I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way things that I had no words for.

I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen - shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own.

I try to tell young people to get in shape now, because it's easier. If you're 30 and want to drop 10 pounds, all you have to do is just walk.

We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be.

I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be. What I'm discovering is that the older you get, the more work you have to do to stay there.

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape

And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

Hence, loathèd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy.

Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.

In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.

At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.

As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer.

Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It's really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.

We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.

The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.

Ideas are information taking shape.

The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.

The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume.

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most important things, those that shape our existence, are precisely the ones that never show their faces.

It's your decisions, not your conditions, which shape your life.