Shaped Quotes

626 Shaped quotes by 525 unique authors

The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the… — Salman Rushdie
We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth. — Charles Stanley
I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped. — Kristen Stewart
What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from… — Lech Walesa
There used to be a huge hole in my life that I wrote many albums about. I didn't realise it was a wife-and-daughter-shaped hole. They've… — Robbie Williams
Golf has made me and shaped me into the person I am here today. — Tiger Woods
North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways… — Evgeny Morozov
...A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the… — Edgar Allan Poe
There were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded and some were… — Michael Ende
Owen Meany believed that “coincidence” was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives… — John Irving
Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley below, all red… — Dave Eggers
You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the… — Jean Rhys
Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints… — Victor Hugo
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty… — William Shakespeare
Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that… — Virginia Woolf
It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be… — Carol Shields
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force. — Euripides
For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of… — Virginia Woolf
Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when… — Louis L'Amour
A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an… — Aldous Huxley
What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and… — Anais Nin
The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then… — Orson Scott Card
Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which… — Gene Wolfe
With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she… — Virginia Woolf

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