Contours Quotes

45 quotes by 38 authors

Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose. — Rudolf Steiner
However exquisite the contours or the colours of clouds, trees, rivers or hills, may be in themselves, they must be sacrificed if they do not… — Walter J. Phillips
To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy. — George Packer
The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The… — Hugo Black
If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of… — George Steiner
The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a… — C.S. Lewis
All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours. You feel the inspiration… — John O'Donohue
I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each… — Isabel Allende
In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams. — Justina Chen
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast… — Ernest Hemingway
Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with… — Wendell Berry
It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry… — Marguerite Duras
The amusement fled from Royce's face and with a groan he pulled her roughly against his chest, crushing her to him. "Jenny," he whispered hoarsely,… — Judith McNaught
A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand? — Alan Moore
Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart — Tammara Webber
My body cheerfully informed me that he felt really good pressed against me like that, all hard muscles and smooth contours and ominous bulges. My… — Karen Chance

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