Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
With Complicated Grief I can say that there was a certain simplification in the process. Getting older means less wasted effort, things… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Lord Shiva is seated deep in everyone’s heart. He is Nirguna (One who is without form or its attributes). He is Nirakaar… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Very often on films, even without a producer credit, I'll be involved, very early on. I want to be there as the… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
I grew up in a refugee camp in Uganda, and I lived there for 30 years. That shapes one's character. — Paul Kagame 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
I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not… — Noomi Rapace Copy Share Image
Designers can show us a better future, can present us with all kinds of new possibilities so that we can decide: Is… — Warren Berger Copy Share Image
"Humanism" is to be human, to think, to analyze, and to probe. To respond and to be stimulated by all living things… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
There is a discipline, a spiritual code that you should adhere to, that you do not hurt anyone in any way shape… — Derek Acorah Copy Share Image
Simon,” she whispered, vaguely surprised that she had just used his first name, for she had never used it even in the… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
HOUSE RULES [at the Praetor Lupus Headquarters] No shape-shifting in the hallways. No howling. No silver. Clothing must be worn at all… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is the most complicated meal you can think of. Every night, dinner is just pasta. It's just different shapes of pasta. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
My idea of a perfect surrealist painting is one in which every detail is perfectly realistic, yet filled with a surrealistic, dreamlike… — Ian Hornak Copy Share Image
But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings. ... With enormous histrionic intuition he could… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won't wrong by using strategy. Yet what it takes… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
If you are engaging rationality, you are already engaging a place that makes you unavailable. Only when I recognize that inspiration has… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Being in good shape is my lifestyle, and I can't remember a time when I was out of shape. I try to… — Urijah Faber Copy Share Image
I became simply a pair of eyes, staring through my mask at Char. I needed no ears because I was too far… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The difference between me and a butterfly is that the butterfly looks at a flower with no purpose in mind but to… — Densey Clyne Copy Share Image