Shaped Quotes

626 Shaped quotes by 525 unique authors

It is all well and good for children and acid freaks to still believe in Santa Claus — but it is still a profoundly morbid… — Hunter S. Thompson
Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts. — Rick Warren
The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us… — Anne Michaels
...the music you make is shaped by what you play it on ... if you feel that you're not getting enough out of a song,… — Mark Knopfler
Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The church has lost her testimony. She has no longer anything to say to the world. Her once robust shout of assurance has faded away… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase — Sergei Dovlatov
We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for the scientific… — James Q. Wilson
Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in… — Steven Erikson
Stephen Schlesinger’s Act of Creation tells a dazzling story of the dramatic events that have shaped the world in which we live. Never has a… — Unknown Author
Mike Forsberg's images give us bright openings onto a world. . . . Here on the Great Plains both people and trees and everything else… — Ted Kooser
Those lessons that I got along the way are the ones that have shaped my life for the last 20 years. — John Sculley
The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are not accidental or… — Marilyn Frye
Love, it’s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown by your absence.… — Stuart Dybek
Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of… — Tim Wise
Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned… — Jane Goodall
Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason… — Huston Smith
I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned… — Leonardo da Vinci
The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth.… — Robert Pinsky
The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind. — Dion Fortune
All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle. — Daniel Bernoulli
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still… — Jared Diamond
Before our globe had become egg-shaped or round it was a long trail of cosmic dust or fire-mist, moving and writhing like a serpent. This,… — Manly Hall
The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies has… — Rene Dubos
As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers,… — Helen Dunmore

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