Shapes Quotes - Page 2

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

To believe in Him under any particular form is not enough. Accept Him in His numberless forms, shapes and modes of being, in everything that exists. Aim at the whole and all your actions will be whole.

If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take very good care never to do the same again. If I had a message for my contemporaries, I said, it was surely this: Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success.

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property.

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

It is the mind that shapes the body

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.

Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

Once you start believing in yourself, anything is possible. Once you start believing in yourself, your dreams take shape. The more you believe, the more you achieve.

There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.

Life is a puzzle. Every piece fits together to create who we are, what we do, how we feel. Every experience shapes us into who we will eventually become.

A basic assumption shapes most Americans’ mindset about labor: the belief that the death of unions isn’t my problem because I’m not in a union. That assumption is wrong. Even if you aren’t a member, your pay is influenced by the strength or weakness of organized labor. The presence of unions sets off a wage race to the top. Their absence sets off a race to the bottom.

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

There's still such chaos in me. Still so little firmly outlined. Just like my face: a formless mass that only takes on shape through the expression of the moment. The searching for our selves is the most agonizing

And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.