Quotes with shape

Quotes 41 till 60 of 100.

  • William Booth It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?
    William Booth
    English Methodist preacher (1829 - 1912)
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  • Brian Friel It is not the literal past, the ''facts'' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
    Brian Friel
    Irish playwright (1929 - 2015)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Anthony Robbins It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Adam Clayton It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.
    Adam Clayton
    Irish musician (1960 - )
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  • Robert H. Schuller Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Barry Cornwall Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Robert Collier Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Arthur Miller Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Rene Dubos Man shapes himself through decision that shape his environment.
    Rene Dubos
    French-American microbiologist, pathologist and environmentalist
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Ansel Adams Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Caio Fonseca Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
    Caio Fonseca
    American painter (1959 - )
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  • George Orwell 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.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Bode Miller My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Carrie Fisher 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.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Marilyn French One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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