Form Quotes · Page 509

The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And…

— Frank Herbert

Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new…

— John Grierson

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

— Reid Hoffman

Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or…

— William Gurnall

If you are really spontaneous, people will think you are mad. If you go to a tree and start talking, or to…

— Rajneesh

Religion is a primitive form of philosophy, [the] attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality.

— Ayn Rand

The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of…

— Ayn Rand

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form…

— John Lanchester

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

— Marshall McLuhan

Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it.

— Swami Vivekananda

You're not a person. We take that form. We're an essence. We're an awareness of God's. We're made up of countless, countless…

— Frederick Lenz

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his…

— Jane Addams

In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one…

— James Thurber

Complimenting yourself is the funnest form of manifestation.

— Ronda Rousey

The Hopi Indians thought that the world’s religions each contained one spiritual thread, and that these threads are always seeking each other,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

— Criss Jami

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication.

— Frank Ocean

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

— Keith Jarrett

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

— Groucho Marx

Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else.

— Richard Moss

Whatever the universal perspective one adopts, it is important to recognise that some form of universalism is politically and ethically necessary.

— Alison Assiter