Forms Quotes
2237 quotes by 1601 authors
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The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such…
— Bruce Lee
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Danger comes in many forms, I suppose. For some people, it might be jumping off a bridge or climbing impossible moutains. For others, it could…
— David Levithan
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The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not…
— Northrop Frye
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We come together, we create our families, we chose our mates out of the desire to form a life together. Love takes many forms, wears…
— Yasmine Galenorn
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They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed he would often…
— Alice Hoffman
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What is it with you today?†says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms…
— Veronica Roth
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Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch…
— Oscar Wilde
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The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is…
— Donald Knuth
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The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts to build more…
— Gene Sharp
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Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred…
— Victor Hugo
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That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
— Erich Fromm
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Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love…
— Yehuda Berg
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Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy…
— William Shakespeare
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This group had a kind of dark glamour within the castle. They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern…
— Carl Sagan
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Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We…
— Karen Joy Fowler
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Courage comes in different forms. There's strength--that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.
— Nora Roberts
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Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them…
— Victor Hugo
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It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that…
— Jack Kerouac
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