Shaped Quotes

626 Shaped quotes by 525 unique authors

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers. — Joseph Chilton Pearce
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is… — Benjamin Cardozo
In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul. — Robert Breault
Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it. — Rene Dubos
In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I… — Michelangelo
The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart..... — H.G. Wells
He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in his… — Kim Edwards
Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within… — John Chancellor
317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is… — G. H. Hardy
Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid;… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart. — Blaise Pascal
When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an odd-shaped flint-there are… — Mary Midgley
For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details… — Janine Benyus
There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be… — Arthur C. Clarke
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

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