Shaped Quotes
626 quotes by 525 authors
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We’re all searching for something to fill up what I like to call that big, God-shaped hole in our souls. Some people use alcohol, or…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of…
— Robert Macfarlane
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In many tribal cultures, it was said that if the boys were not initiated into manhood, if they were not shaped by the skills and…
— Michael Meade
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Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.
— Ana Castillo
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The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I do not have…
— Amin Maalouf
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We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a…
— Otto Neurath
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In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in which you could…
— Amy Waldman
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I think the major event that shaped my life was being a Naval aviator. I got my commission and wings at 18 years old, and…
— George H. W. Bush
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We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried to create another…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and…
— Bell Hooks
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After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you everywhere…. For us what was…
— Elizabeth McCracken
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The Seer Stone referred to here was a chocolate-colored, somewhat egg-shaped stone which the Prophet found while digging a well in company with his brother…
— B. H. Roberts
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But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.
— Dorothy Dunnett
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Why should a child's future be shaped by where they are born?
— Catherine Marshall
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Never become too busy for your brother or your sister. For when your parents die, it is your hearts alone that will realize how the…
— Laura Ramirez
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Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened…
— Steve Buyer
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Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various…
— Unknown Author
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Men, you are in a battle. You are in a war. The stakes of this war and its casualties are higher than a checkmark in…
— Tony Evans
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For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the person…
— Robert Keith Leavitt
Who Wrote These Shaped Quotes
525 authors contributed a total of 626 Shaped Quotes, led by these top contributors: