“Even water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.” — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity. — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
I do a lot of running. Bit of squash, bit of tennis. I don't like feeling out of shape. — Richard Coyle Copy Share Image
Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the… — Polixeni Papapetrou Copy Share Image
The Bible teaches us that God does not cause pain, but that He uses pain and evil to advance His cause and… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geometric shapes can affect matter around them. It's… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields, or waves, or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain? What… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images… — Jaime Hernandez Copy Share Image
I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
I hear the words, the thoughts, the feeling tones, the personal meaning, even the meaning that is below the conscious intent of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I say yes to the hot bath and the sandwich - to getting ourselves into the best possible mental shape to identify… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sing of a woman with ink on her hands and pictures hidden beneath her hair. I sing of a dog with… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
Cursing themselves in ragged dreamsfire has singed the edges of,they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with.Shimmering fans… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
Over the past eight years, the United States has worked hard to deepen partnerships across the region and across South-east Asia in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
We will never have total control over this extraordinary dimension. Time will warp and confuse and baffle and entertain however much we… — Claudia Hammond Copy Share Image
Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future. — Robert L. Peters Copy Share Image
A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground. — Ernest Shackleton Copy Share Image
If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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