Forms Quotes

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If one accepts the 24thÂ and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take… — Wendell Berry
As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its beautiful and grotesque… — Annie Dillard
Forms of government matter, in my opinion. It matters how -- the nature of the government in which people live. — George W. Bush
I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like… — George Hickenlooper
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic… — Oscar Wilde
Animals are like autistic savants. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that animals might actually be autistic savants. Animals have special talents… — Temple Grandin
The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of… — William Hazlitt
Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it.… — Ernest Renan
Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games… — John Fowles
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are… — Rollo May
There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make… — Ansel Adams
Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression — John Foster Dulles
One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve. — Paul Nitze
The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom. — Edward Abbey
Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the… — Edward Abbey
In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority. — Edward Abbey
Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations...In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is… — Alexis de Tocqueville
In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil *odegra* in the… — Terry Pratchett
Place three individuals in a situation wherein the interest of each depends on the voice of the others, and give to two of them an… — James Madison
In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance — James Madison

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