Shaped Quotes
626 Shaped quotes by 525 unique authors
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It's suspiciously quiet in here, and there's a Tod shaped dent in the bean bag. For the sake of both my sanity and my temper,…
— Rachel Vincent
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Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to…
— Virginia Woolf
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Some girls have to go to college to discover what they are good at; some are born doing what they must without even truly knowing…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes in the floor…
— Thomas Harris
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I will never be without information,' she determined. 'I will do better than my sisters. If a bird or any other beast comes out of…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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I mean, yeah, maybe our fate is sometimes fixed and unchangeable, but there are other times when its shaped purely by the actions we take...
— Alyson Noel
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I have offered myself to the inkwell of the wordsmith that I might be shaped into new terms of being.
— Saul Williams
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We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for astonishment and horror,…
— Douglas Kennedy
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That's what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable - and all the time…
— Lauren Oliver
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Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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We have Not one In common No two Are shaped alike The third Because of that eye we lack In the fourth Direction there is…
— Tite Kubo
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It was good to be here with Hem and Cecily an Charlotte, to be surrounded by their affection, but without her there would always be…
— Cassandra Clare
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Picture this," said Magnus. "Me with a little monkey friend. I could teach him tricks. I could dress him in a cunning jacket. He could…
— Cassandra Clare
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Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.
— Andrea Gibson
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The strongest of metals is forged under the most violent of conditions, my lord. It is buried deep in the hottest coals and then beat…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Our lives are marked and shaped by our regrets. Things we all want to take back and can’t. In a perfect world, we would never…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.
— Steve McCurry
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It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal…
— Robert Kennedy
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At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards.My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.
— Unknown Author
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I have paid as much as $300 a night to throw up into a sink shaped like a seashell.
— Erma Bombeck
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We need to cultivate hearts that are ready to change, ready to be mounded and shaped by the loving hands of God as we offer…
— Stuart Townsend
Who Wrote These Shaped Quotes
525 authors contributed a total of 626 Shaped Quotes, led by these top contributors: