Mould Quotes

107 Mould quotes by 88 unique authors

It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that clutter the minds… — Lawren Harris
Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind. — Ahad Ha'am
Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy… — John Dryden
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in… — Edward Gibbon
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because… — William Godwin
I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed… — Rachel Cusk
I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to… — Mark Haddon
Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets. — Larry Hagman
If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking? — Thomas a Kempis
The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations. — Joseph Pulitzer
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

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