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849 Formed quotes by 682 unique authors

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with… — Townsend Harris
In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that… — Lisa Kleypas
These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed. — Patti Smith
For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity… — Jonathan Lethem
Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see… — Flannery O'Connor
I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted… — Andrew Jackson
And nothing formed against me shall stand. You hold the whole world in Your hands. I'm holding onto Your promises. You are faithful. You are… — Chris Tomlin
The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer.… — Ken Adam
My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the… — Joan Halifax
Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into… — Scott Putesky
Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although… — Charles Caleb Colton
Just think, you're here not by chance, but by God's choosing. His hand formed you and made you the person you are. He compares you… — Roy Lessin
Innumerable changes of moods are yours, and they are uncontrolled by you. If you knew their origin, you would be able to dominate them. If… — Unknown Author
I have never seen such a perfectly formed animal. Beautiful and graceful like a gazelle, he burned hot and wild with the deserts of Egypt… — Lynn Andrews
The cell was the first invention of the animal kingdom, and all higher animals are and must be cellular in structure. Our tissues were formed… — John M. Tyler
A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming… — Ellen Key
To discover the laws of operative power in material productions, whether formed by man or brought into being by Nature herself, is the work of… — William Whewell
How can it be other than right to worship the Body of the Lord, all-holy and all-reverend as it is, announced as it was by… — John of Kronstadt
Soils could also be giving up their carbon stores: evidence emerged in 2005 that a vast expanse of western Siberia was undergoing an unprecedented thaw.… — David Adam
Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd. — Michel de Montaigne
When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why… — Cesare Pavese
A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay? — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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