Shape Quotes

2138 quotes by 1696 authors

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the… — Theodore Roosevelt
There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the… — Alan Moore
I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days. — John Keats
For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny. — Lloyd Alexander
When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have… — Zadie Smith
I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to… — Haruki Murakami
Boys are just boys after all, but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist, or the sudden jut of a… — Zadie Smith
The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materiae, for form does not… — Michael Flynn
live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the… — Jeanette Winterson
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have… — Jorge Luis Borges
If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey.… — Nicholas Sparks
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt… — Ernest Hemingway
In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance. — Jeanette Winterson
The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice… — Michel Foucault
loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only skill and it… — Tao Lin
She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal… — Rosamunde Pilcher
Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold. — Cormac McCarthy
I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but I have almost… — Jonathan Kozol
In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to… — Chuck Palahniuk

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