Shapes Quotes · Page 51

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

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence

— Saul Williams

And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade…

— Anonymous

God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul.

— Rumi

Our spoken word first hammers a thing desired into shape. Our continued spoken word brings this shaped substance forth and clothes it…

— H. Emilie Cady

A relationship ends because you've outgrown it. It can begin again because you, as two, can fill the new shape.

— Megan McCafferty

You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself…

— John Steinbeck

You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from,…

— Frank Gehry

There is a latent fairy in all women, but look how carefully we have to secrete her in order to be taken…

— Dawn French

Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses. Most women dress for men and…

— Coco Chanel

And we [The Futurist artists] must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones,…

— Giacomo Balla

We shape our life by deciding to pay attention to it. It is the direction of our attention and its intensity that…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then…

— Roger Penrose

Playfulness. We've baked Mallomars and Rice Krispies treats, made milkshakes, and even built a macaron cake in the shape of a Christmas…

— David Castle

Your Self, Aware Presence, knows no resistance to any appearance and, as such, is happiness itself; like the empty space of a…

— Rupert Spira

...by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside…

— Tove Jansson

I believe so strongly in what I do and I practice what I preach! My Dad died at fifty - do I…

— Jack LaLanne

I am sure that the experience of growing up in the heart of the working class and learning from my parents, and…

— Michael Yates

[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is…

— Georges Bataille

At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function,…

— Brandon Sanderson

They say that 'history is an argument without end.' In Thompson's skillful hands, this momentous argument between two old friends on the…

— Jonathan Alter

I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love…

— Ayn Rand

Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

— Agatha Christie

Warriors use their intent and will to shape their lives. All of their actions are conscious, intentional, and complete.

— Kerr Cuhulain

When you really have the preparation time and things start taking the shape that they need, you have a beautiful feeling that…

— Penelope Cruz

Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

— Cormac McCarthy

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

— Eric Hoffer

Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself.

— Emma Thompson

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

— Daisaku Ikeda

Novalee watched his lips shape the words...the sounds, like whispered secrets, hanging in the air.

— Billie Letts

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

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in…

— Carre Otis

I'm looking to get in the best shape possible for London and not worrying about rivals.

— Dayron Robles

Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it.

— LeCrae

I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when…

— Elvin Jones

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

— Dalai Lama

You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love,…

— Sara Zarr