Shape Quotes

2138 quotes by 1696 authors

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature… — Marcus Aurelius
Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission, but can be… — Charles Duhigg
The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us;… — Phil Cousineau
There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another,… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel… — Michael Ignatieff
In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;â€”in that of poets of amusementâ€”in that of the priest… — Jeremy Bentham
It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape… — Lawrence Summers
Early in my career, I decided I never wanted to get out of shape. — Cal Ripken, Jr.
We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and thereby… — Jan Tschichold
The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a… — David Brooks
Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired… — Alison Gopnik
Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them. — Desiderius Erasmus
We shape our God, and then our God shapes us. — Rob Bell
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you. — John Ortberg
The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break. — Mark Nepo
I think the answer is we all need a little help, and the coffee's a little help with everything â€” social, energy, don't know what… — Jerry Seinfeld
There are some who lack confidence in the integrity and capacity of the people to govern themselves. To all who entertain such fears I will… — Andrew Johnson
Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing… — Andrew Johnson
Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their laws to give… — Rudolf Rocker
Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the… — Yusef Komunyakaa

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