Shaped Quotes

626 Shaped quotes by 525 unique authors

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 embodied—incarnated—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
I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father. — Saif Ali Khan
Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they… — Charles M. Blow
There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, ‘Here I… — Barbara Brown Taylor
I went solo because I could do much better what I wanted to do. I didn't have to ask or discuss things and ideas that… — Klaus Schulze
I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice,… — Katrina Kenison
A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I was shaped by the west and have lived most of my life in it, and nothing would gratify me more than to see it… — Wallace Stegner
The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again,… — Toni Morrison
We all need a story. It just turns out that the story we have been told for years - that people are naturally and primarily… — Ed Mayo
There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which… — Charles de Gaulle
The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived and through the… — Max Horkheimer
There was some sadness in how that could happen, falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had. — Guy Gavriel Kay
As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it. — Doris Kearns Goodwin
One day, the Devil decided to go out of business. His tools, therefore, being for sale, were put on display; and Malice, Jealousy, and Pride… — James Keller
While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments… — Jon Meacham

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