Shape Quotes
2138 quotes by 1696 authors
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There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying…
— Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
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A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects…
— Julia Glass
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Our collective memories are welcoming places, and one image, that of Jesus, has absorbed and appropriated elements of other traditions and aspirations in order to…
— Neil MacGregor
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I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form,…
— Christian Dior
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It was remarkable to see from space how predictable people are. Our homes and towns are almost all in places with moderate temperatures, and they…
— Chris Hadfield
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The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.
— Derrick Jensen
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We need to remind ourselves that our ultimate goal is not to reduce greenhouse gases or global warming per se but to improve the quality…
— Thomas P.M. Barnett
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Great upheavals produce shock waves that widen cracks in political, economic, and security orders. Sometimes the old orders break. Yet it can be in the…
— Robert Zoellick
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Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality,…
— Ruth Ozeki
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Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an uncertain chimera shimmering…
— Cynthia Ozick
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Gone are the days when you could lie on a beach between races and still be in good enough shape to compete. Gone are the…
— Charlie Kimball
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You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but…
— Landon Donovan
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Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy…
— Stephen Kinzer
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
— Natalie Massenet
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I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.
— Natalie Massenet
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The way glass can be molded or blown or cut into any kind of shape made me think about how we as people - our…
— Lisa Kleypas
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I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work…
— Lee Hall
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The most important thing for staying in shape is having fun with your workouts.
— Erin Heatherton
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I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.
— Larry Fitzgerald
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Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves.
— Ellen Willis
Who Wrote These Shape Quotes
1,696 authors contributed a total of 2,138 Shape Quotes, led by these top contributors: