Shape Quotes
2138 quotes by 1696 authors
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Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.
— Stanley Fish
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If youre gonna put your faith in something, then it better shape who you are and what people see in you.
— Hayley Williams
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I have been on a life-long search of how to stay in shape without putting any effort into it whatsoever.
— Chelsea Handler
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Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges. but I was…
— Denis Johnson
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Some people just don't want to put in the effort. I just show up and say some lines and I'm famous. Anyone living below the…
— Zach Braff
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Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the page, then the…
— Dani Shapiro
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I was working on the farm to get in shape, about a mile away from my parents. You know, I did everything as a kid…
— Guy Lafleur
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Enlightenment, or true happiness, is not a transcendental state. It is a condition of broad wisdom, boundless energy, and good fortune wherein we each shape…
— Josei Toda
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Eventually, Americans would be stuck with government-run health care whether they like it or not. That's when the worst scenario would take shape, with Americans…
— Mitch McConnell
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Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.
— Robert McNamara
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You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an…
— Andy Grove
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I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine . .…
— Samuel Beckett
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The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so…
— George Henry Lewes
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It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
— Stephen Gardiner
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A kata is not fixed or immoveable. Like water, it's ever changing and fits itself to the shape of the vessel containing it. However, kata…
— Kenwa Mabuni
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In the early Buddhist view, then, a persons identity resides not in an enduring self but in his actions (karma)- that is in the choices…
— Joanna Macy
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There is a discipline, a spiritual code that you should adhere to, that you do not hurt anyone in any way shape or form either…
— Derek Acorah
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Find a teacher who is an integral being, a beacon who extends his light and virtue with equal ease to those who appreciate him and…
— Laozi
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Lovely girls are terribly insecure. They are convinced that their legs are too thick, and their bottoms are too big, and their bosoms are too…
— Richard J. Needham
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Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape…
— Herb Ritts
Who Wrote These Shape Quotes
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