Shape Quotes
2138 quotes by 1696 authors
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Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my…
— William Faulkner
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We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconscious level we absolutely are. Whether the…
— Simon Pegg
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Whatever you are physically,' he said, 'Male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy -- all those things matter less than what your heart…
— Cassandra Clare
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I wonder what a soul…a person's soul…would look like,' said Priscilla dreamily. 'Like that, I should think,' answered Anne, pointing to a radiance of sifted…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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We never shape the world . . . the world shapes us.
— Toni Morrison
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It can be... difficult to to learn how the world truly is, to see it in its true shape and form... most human beings never…
— Cassandra Clare
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How can you come to understand your life when even the beginning is so complicated: a single cell imprinted with the color of your eyes…
— Dan Chaon
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Young Sally Owens: He will hear my call a mile away. He will whistle my favorite song. He can ride a pony backwards. Young Gillian…
— Alice Hoffman
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The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.
— Carl Sagan
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I ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each growing according to a unique plan. Lop off a limb and and the…
— Julia Cameron
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While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not…
— Margaret Atwood
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In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the…
— Philip K. Dick
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Oh," the girl said, shaking her head. "Don't be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them. They define themselves…
— Jim Butcher
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Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation. When something's let go of, it circles; and…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Weeks passed, and the little Rabbit grew very old and shabby, but the Boy loved him just as much. He loved him so hard that…
— Margery Williams
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And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth to shape the world and make it live was still alive in it. I just…
— Wendell Berry
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My office is in a building in midtown Chicago. It's an older building, and not in the best of shape, especially since there was that…
— Jim Butcher
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O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger…
— William Shakespeare
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The next thing Jordana says makes me realize that it's too late to save her. "I've noticed that when you light a match, the flame…
— Joe Dunthorne
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And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it...
— Constantine Peter Cavafy
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