As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed. — Laozi Copy Share Image
There are always limits, and opportunities. The ones we rehearse and focus on are the ones that shape our future. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape. — Guido Molinari Copy Share Image
Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows. — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination. — Democritus Copy Share Image
The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to… — Mark Nepo 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
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
When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle,… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
A crow may put on human shape or crow shape, but we remain crows,” he replied firmly. “Hawks, too, are the same,… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
There is no 'my self' and 'his self'. There is the Self, the only Self of all. Misled by the diversity of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
Your imagination is the single most important asset you possess. Your imagination is your power to create mental pictures of things that… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Marx was wrong: It is not only the 'means of production' that shape societies, but the means of destruction. In our own… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving… — John Milton Copy Share Image
But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire;… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
The teacher not only shapes the expectations and ambitions of her pupils, but she also influences their attitudes toward their future and… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
you ask me what I'm looking for, and I outline you. you don't recognize the shape, offer other names. you say my… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
I don't oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard. — Dean Norris Copy Share Image
Overall, I think I'm in pretty good shape, but I'm not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic. — Cobi Jones Copy Share Image
Cages come in lots of different colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
A gasline will help shape our economic future - the same way that oil has shaped our economic present. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Girls need to know that we are all unique and that we should all celebrate our unique beauty because it comes in… — Coco Rocha Copy Share Image
The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image