Shapes Quotes - Page 10

What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.

Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

The object of art is to give life shape.

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.

Thanks to his willingness to face me, my life takes shape, my path evolves.

Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

You have to leave the window open for better classes to come along as you go. You can't grow too proud of your script. You have to let the thing shape itself. It guarantees the best classes will always be used and it also keeps you from going braindead. If you grow bored and uninspired working on something, the audience will be able to tell.

It's easier to stay in shape if you never let yourself get out of shape in the first place.

Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.

If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.

Love had a thousand shapes.

Tradition is an aspiration to connect the Self with the Other. One "internalizes" the Other as one acquires a sense of what one's own tradition is, what one belongs to and what gives valid shape to one's life.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.

I refuse to be beaten in any way shape or form, so I'm gonna beat this too.

The most perfect melodic shapes are found in Mozart; he has the lightness of touch which is the true objective ... Listen to the remarkable expansion of a Mozart melody, to Cherubino's 'Voi che sapete', for instance. You think it is coming to an end, but it goes farther, even farther.

We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us

You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.

Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.

I feel like with everything you do, everything you make, everything you experience, y'know, even the dumb stuff that you don't even really pay much attention to, like the mundane stuff that happens to you every day, it shapes the person who you are.

There will be all these fifty-year-old women wearing hot pants and squeezing themselves into pretzel shapes and then there will be me. Just reaching for my toes like they're China. 'Hello there! You're so far away, I can't get to you! Can you even hear me?