Shaped Quotes

626 quotes by 525 authors

If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently… — John Bertram Phillips
My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved… — Galen Rowell
It all went a bit grape-shaped. — Jason McAteer
The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They make it easy… — Steven Pinker
The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to… — Rene Dubos
The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography… — Bryan Stevenson
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill. — Saint Augustine
The "door of faith" (Acts 14:27) is always open for us, ushering us into the life of communion with God and offering entry into his… — Pope Benedict XVI
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion;… — Aristotle
Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to… — Victor Hugo
Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good. — Katherine Anne Porter
Several days in a row we sighted groups of metallic, saucer-shaped vehicles at great altitudes over the base Germany, 1951 and we tried to get… — Gordon Cooper
Today, we cannot produce machines that fly the same as UFOs do. They are flying by means of artificial fields of Gravity. This would explain… — Hermann Oberth
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing. — William Wordsworth
The Doors embodiedâ€”incarnatedâ€”a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times. — Jac Holzman
Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will share with you… — Neil Armstrong
Many things shaped my identity as a young boy: a strong selfworth (something that was instilled in all three Barrowman siblings by our parents), my… — John Barrowman
Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but when I go… — Janis Joplin

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