Mould Quotes

107 quotes by 88 authors

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. — Henry David Thoreau
As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody.… — Lech Walesa
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould… — Virginia Woolf
If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream… — will.i.am
There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer… — Neill Blomkamp
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and… — Joseph Pulitzer
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own… — Michel Foucault
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose. — Oscar Wilde
...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the… — Thomas Hardy
He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form. — Graham Greene
When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place,… — Charles Dickens
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in. — Thomas Hardy
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts… — John Stuart Mill
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness… — Charlotte Bronte
Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow… — Hunter S. Thompson
The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending… — Janet Frame
...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval of… — Janet Frame
The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars… — Oswald Chambers
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake… — Oscar Wilde

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