Shapes Quotes
2282 Shapes quotes by 1689 unique authors
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Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no…
— Unknown Author
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How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although I do not…
— John Keats
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The difference between me and a butterfly is that the butterfly looks at a flower with no purpose in mind but to sip nectar. The…
— Densey Clyne
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Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.
— George Washington
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I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
— Mary Douglas
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Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take…
— Pete Cashmore
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around…
— E. M. Forster
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We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.
— Albert Einstein
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It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time,…
— Virginia Woolf
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It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some…
— Anthony Storr
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Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This, pre-eminently,…
— Josiah Johnson Hawes
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One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you…
— Mike DeWine
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The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer's…
— James Gunn
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Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use.
— Jean Aitchison
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The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
— Hortense Calisher
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There's no magic bullet; there's no pill that you take that makes everything great and makes you happy all the time. I'm letting go of…
— Anne Hathaway
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I've been every size in the world. Parts of my 20s, I was in great shape, but I didn't appreciate it. If I was a…
— Melissa McCarthy
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Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a…
— Vladimir Kramnik
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For spiritual companions I have had the many artists who have relied on nature to help shape their imagination. And their most elaborate equipment was…
— Sam Abell
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What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants…
— Aaron Siskind
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