Unformed Quotes

31 quotes by 28 authors

The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or… — Saint Basil
In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant. — Lionel Trilling
You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires. — Wallace D. Wattles
I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself. — Akira Kurosawa
Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior. — C.S. Lewis
Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to… — Laozi
Concrete is momentarily unformed matter seeking its natural completion, filling in the last corners of its allowed space, finding a form. It is possibility rendered… — Mark Kingwell
It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding. — Zhuangzi
Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for… — Julien Torma
The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste. — Diego Rivera
When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out… — Ayn Rand
Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order… — Mary Baker Eddy
God's Providence controls the universe. It is present everywhere. Providence is the sovereign Logos of God, imprinting form on the unformed materiality of the world,… — Anthony the Great
And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall… — Samuel Daniel
Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one. — Lewis Mumford
Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary. — Erik Naggum
Sometimes, indeed often, we work on a theme with an unformed idea, and, when it has passed through the process, its final result is something… — Lawren Harris
She who has intentionally destroyed [the fetus] is subject to the penalty corresponding to a homicide. For us, there is no scrutinizing between the formed… — Saint Basil
The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide. — Saint Basil
A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder. And any fine distinction as to its being completely formed or unformed is not… — Saint Basil

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