Shaped Quotes
626 Shaped quotes by 525 unique authors
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Here's how the people live here, in big house-shaped boxes to keep off 'rain' and 'snow,' holes cut in the sides so they can see…
— Richard Bach
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He wore a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the good place, and a heart-shaped leaf lay trapped in the hollow if his…
— Elizabeth Berg
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I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated and grow depends…
— James W. Fowler
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In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with many a pointed…
— Walt Whitman
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The biggest political change in my lifetime is that Americans no longer assume that their children will have it better than they did. This is…
— Peggy Noonan
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We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
— Gautama Buddha
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Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works…
— Xenophanes
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Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the…
— Gautama Buddha
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Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think.
— Gautama Buddha
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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act.
— Gautama Buddha
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
— Timothy Keller
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Our biggest problem is that we have an entire culture shaped by a misunderstanding of the gospel. That so-called gospel is deconstructing the church
— Scot McKnight
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We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of…
— Manuel De Landa
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The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the promptings of available…
— Unknown Author
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As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry nestled between her…
— Unknown Author
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More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that…
— Carol S. Dweck
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I really wanted to support this campaign because I love heart shaped glasses. Seriously though, I've never hit anyone. I'm anti-violence full stop. Against women,…
— Unknown Author
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Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which…
— James Agee
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I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow one, And the…
— Sylvia Plath
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We become new if we let ourselves be grasped and shaped by the new Man, Jesus Christ. He is the new Man par excellence. In…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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For 20 years I've had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe... first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have…
— Clara Hughes
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In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of…
— Peter Sloterdijk
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Like anyone else, a lot of what I do and how I think has been shaped by my family and my overall life experience. Many…
— Satya Nadella
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The word is a thing of mystery, so volatile that it vanishes almost on the lip, yet so powerful that it decides fates and determines…
— Romano Guardini
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Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.
— Dorothy West
Who Wrote These Shaped Quotes
525 authors contributed a total of 626 Shaped Quotes, led by these top contributors: