Forms Quotes
2237 quotes by 1601 authors
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Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is…
— Ridley Scott
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The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly…
— Troy Perry
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The variety of all things forms a pleasure.
— Euripides
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Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning...They have to play with what they know to be true in order to find…
— Fred Rogers
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The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use…
— William Graham Sumner
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But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of…
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view.…
— Victor Hugo
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The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.
— Marston Bates
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The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind…
— Charles Dickens
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History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
— Christian Lous Lange
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Of all forms of mental activity, the most difficult to induce even in the minds of the young, who may be presumed not to have…
— Arthur Koestler
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We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great…
— Albert Pike
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The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy…
— Millicent Fawcett
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Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less rigorous, popular forms, religion is…
— Wendy Kaminer
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Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance as the title…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Life in its infinite forms exists as one organic unity. We are part of it: the part should feel reverence for the whole. That is…
— Rajneesh
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We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the grim realities of…
— Edmund Muskie
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In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to detect. A minimal…
— Philippe Starck
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We're one of the last handmade art forms. There's no fast way to make plays. It takes just as long and is just as hard…
— Steven Dietz
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