When you really have the preparation time and things start taking the shape that they need, you have a beautiful feeling that… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
Warriors use their intent and will to shape their lives. All of their actions are conscious, intentional, and complete. — Kerr Cuhulain Copy Share Image
Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself. — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Novalee watched his lips shape the words...the sounds, like whispered secrets, hanging in the air. — Billie Letts Copy Share Image
If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free. But I can sit and watch an ant run… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Your soul is a seeker, lover and artist; shape-shifting through archetypal energy, between your darkness and fields of light, your body and… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
The Sufi saint Mazhar Jaan Jana of 18th century Delhi believed that the Quran condemns bowing before deities because in pre-Islamic idol… — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills,… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and… — Nancy Newhall Copy Share Image
We are all born idolaters, and idolatry is good, because it is in the nature of man. Who can get beyond it?… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
She could've looked at the tiny miracles in front of her: my feet, my hands, my fingers, the shape of my shoulders… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, 'has not been able-nor can it be able-to shape a new world… — Nelson Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning — Charles Rennie Mackintosh Copy Share Image
Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature. — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them. — Margo Lanagan Copy Share Image
There's no way running on a beach or at some high school playground that you're going to get in football shape like… — Steve Mariucci Copy Share Image
It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed. — Jake Heggie Copy Share Image
If Tiger Woods slamming his club into the ground is the biggest worry wehave, our sport isinprettygood shape. — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
Sports are never just sports, we all know that. You're always carrying the flag in some way, shape or form. — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core. — Anthony Rapp Copy Share Image
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names. — John Milton Copy Share Image
We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze. — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
“...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.” — Brian Friel Copy Share Image
Love is a bodily shape; and Christian works are no more than animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate springtide. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
