Formation Quotes

218 quotes by 175 authors

In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year… — John Sergeant Wise
The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, and "psychic… — Michel Foucault
Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation… — Paul Stamets
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own… — Michel Foucault
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never… — Charles Dickens
Give it to 'em!" Take 'em down!" First Aleran!" Kick their furry--" Assault formation! — Jim Butcher
I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars.… — Tim Winton
Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in… — Henri Nouwen
But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting… — Neal Stephenson
The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience: calm acceptance blossoms… — Kate Morton
He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that metaphor). — Ally Carter
Cyrus Pembridge, the Never Landâ€™s captain, was widely regarded as the most incompetent man to comman a ship since the formation of water. â€œWho in… — Dave Barry
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly… — Charles Darwin
and if we can change things that have already happened if those planes can fly in uneasy formation if that splinter moon can blow away… — Jaclyn Moriarty
(Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones that make tomorrow… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a… — Oscar Wilde
Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of… — Howard Zinn
Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind usâ€”long-range radar, still not in sight.â€ Piper leaned over the console. â€œAre you sure theyâ€™re Roman?â€… — Rick Riordan
I love crystals, the beauty of their forms and formation; liquids, dormant, distilling, sloshing! The fumes, the odors good or bad, the rainbow of colors;… — Unknown Author
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical… — William Bennett

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