Shape Quotes
2138 quotes by 1696 authors
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She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world,…
— John Cheever
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A long white ribbon shot out of the crack in the wall. The ribbon just kept coming, weaving itself into some kind of shape next…
— Rick Riordan
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When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light…
— Hayley Williams
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This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)
— Malcolm Gladwell
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But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain…
— Mark Twain
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For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient…
— J M Coetzee
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...yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From out dark spirits.
— John Keats
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I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Days to come stand in front of us like a row of lighted candles— golden, warm, and vivid candles. Days gone by fall behind us,…
— Constantine Peter Cavafy
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The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work…
— George Orwell
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(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?
— Victor Borge
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Geric," she called. He turned back around. "What kind of flowers were they?" "I don't rightly know," he said. He made faltering gestures with his…
— Shannon Hale
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I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might say. He fits…
— Wendell Berry
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Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that…
— Bell Hooks
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I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love my work, my…
— Ayn Rand
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I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow…
— Margaret Atwood
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Can it really be love if we don't talk that much, don't see each other? Isn't love something that happens between people who spend time…
— Sara Zarr
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At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function, different in design.…
— Brandon Sanderson
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The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the…
— Lurlene McDaniel
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