Formed Quotes
849 Formed quotes by 682 unique authors
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A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some…
— David Brainerd
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I'd rather be this walking metamorphosis than having that old formed opinion about everything.
— Unknown Author
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When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the…
— Unknown Author
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People do not spring forth out of the blue, fully formed – they become themselves slowly, day by day, starting from babyhood. They are the…
— Lois Duncan
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The land on which they (the Founding Fathers) formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were enslaved. The women…
— Melissa Harris-Perry
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What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most advantage their masters,…
— Sheila Jeffreys
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The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.
— Ross Macdonald
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Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few…
— B. C. Forbes
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Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every now and then we enter the presence of the numinous and deduce for an instant how we're formed, in what detail the force that…
— Mary Karr
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Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.
— Simon Sebag-Montefiore
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To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or the image making…
— Dion Fortune
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There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies, but the first…
— Maria Montessori
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One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.
— Janos Bolyai
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I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount... Just the sheet metal.…
— John Chamberlain
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Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real…
— Alice Hoffman
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All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in…
— Alice Hoffman
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Agency has become a catch word. In a way, this intoxication with ‘agency’ is the product of liberal individualism. The ability of individuals to fashion…
— Talal Asad
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Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity? Cast off thy care, leave Allah’s plans to him – He…
— Omar Khayyam
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From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed…
— Andrew Jackson
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Have the courage of your knowledge and experience. If you have formed a conclusion from the facts and if you know your judgment is sound, act…
— Benjamin Graham
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Without harmony in the State, no military expedition can be undertaken; without harmony in the army, no battle array can be formed.
— Sun Tzu
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Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.
— Unknown Author
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Despite the popular idea of anarchists as violent men, Anarchism is the one non-violent social philosophy.… The function of the Anarchist is two-fold. By daily…
— Ammon Hennacy
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