Formed Quotes
849 quotes by 704 authors
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
— Aristotle
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as…
— Teresa of Avila
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or…
— Saint Basil
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
— William Blake
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I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their…
— David Bowie
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I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed…
— Alan Alda
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It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist…
— Judith Butler
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
— Lord Byron
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We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the Word of God, and I…
— Kirk Cameron
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life,…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.
— Giacomo Casanova
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When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us…
— Willa Cather
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Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and…
— Harlan Coben
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I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics... The…
— Emile Durkheim
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This universe is formed out of both consciousness forces and matter. While the study of matter has been the domain of traditional science, the study…
— Shriram Sharma
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In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal…
— Louise Erdrich
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We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact, in both the…
— J I Packer
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