Shapes Quotes · Page 31

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

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

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

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

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning…

— Philip Wylie

With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured…

— Ronald Steel

Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun…

— Julio Cortazar

Sometimes it seems to me that things hold together only thanks to the borders, that the true identify of these lands and…

— Andrzej Stasiuk

I know people who've had a nose job, and they've walked out feeling a million dollars, and their confidence is tenfold. Good…

— Louise Nurding

It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that…

— Clive Bell

When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This…

— Rudolf Arnheim

There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing…

— Edgard Varese

The abstract, especially in those rough sketches, is very important to me, perhaps because of my advertising background, where layout is so…

— Tom of Finland

Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight…

— Pablo Picasso

After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff…

— Tad Williams

When we accept our own wild beauty, it is put into perspective, and we are no longer poignantly aware of it anymore,…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The silence of landscape conceals vast presence. Place is not simply location. A place is a profound individuality. With complete attention, landscape…

— John O'Donohue

This spirit [of Party], unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It…

— George Washington

It's tough to make music and make it your own, and not have somebody call it something you don't agree with but…

— Jim James

This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief…

— Frank Herbert

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

— Eric Hoffer

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

— Penelope Cruz

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

— Kerr Cuhulain

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

— Cormac McCarthy

Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.

— Anthony Rapp

We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

If Tiger Woods slamming his club into the ground is the biggest worry wehave, our sport isinprettygood shape.

— Arnold Palmer

Sports are never just sports, we all know that. You're always carrying the flag in some way, shape or form.

— George Elliott Clarke

Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.

— Keith Haring

Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning

— Charles Rennie Mackintosh

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

How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them.

— Margo Lanagan

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Saul Williams

“...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.”

— Brian Friel