Shapes Quotes

2282 Shapes quotes by 1689 unique authors

For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough… — Carl Ludwig
It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or… — Unknown Author
But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose),… — Robert Boyle
In fashion, general people will look to the piece itself. [Some designers] concentrate on, 'How can I make this seam look special?' or 'What am… — Raf Simons
A Porsche will always look like a Porsche. My grandfather took these shapes from nature, so the head lamps of the 911 maybe look a… — Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
If you want to be in the best shape, diet is super important. You can exercise all you want, but if you're not eating the… — Misty May-Treanor
I like my body when I have curves. We all come indifferent shapes and sizes, and this is something to celebrate. — Christina Aguilera
The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay… — Sun Tzu
Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course according… — Sun Tzu
The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist… — Czeslaw Milosz
Across the board you can run up against 10 athletes where we're the same physically. They've done the same kind of training; they are in… — Unknown Author
My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life. — Faye Dunaway
Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our… — Mary Midgley
To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions — Douglass North
How many there are who still say, 'I want to see His shape, His image, His clothing, His sandals.' Behold, you do see Him, you… — Saint John Chrysostom
What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask. — Sam Keen
Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the… — Pope John Paul II
Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in. — Bob Dylan
We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If it is true… — Ramona Koval

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