Form Quotes - Page 56

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance

On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.

Remembrance is a form of meeting.

Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.

God is more concerned about your heart than your performance. If your heart is right, your performance will eventually catch up.

I love performing. I shall perform until the day I die.

The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.

You know, Gilan, sarcasm isn't the lowest form of wit. It's not even wit at all." -Halt

Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.

I don't have any elaborate uniforms; I come to the ring in a T-shirt, a pair of sneakers and some shorts.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

Our team is good at getting dressed real quick, because we're the type of team that wears their uniforms all day.

Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?

The intention of Paul VI with regard to what is commonly called the Mass, was to reform the Catholic liturgy in such a way that it should almost coincide with the Protestant liturgy - but what is curious is that Paul VI did that to get as close as possible to the Protestant Lord's supper... there was with Paul VI an ecumenical intention to remove, or at least to correct, or at least to relax, what was too Catholic, in the traditional sense, and, I repeat, to get the Catholic Mass closer to the Calvinist Mass.

We will push through health care reform regardless of the views of the American people.

We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.

So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

Beauty can come in strange forms.

The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners.

Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass.

Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and changed.

True repentance also involves reform.

I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.

Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.