Shapes Quotes - Page 6

The way we describe our world shows how we think of our world. How we think of our world governs how we interpret our world. How we interpret our world directs how we participate in the world. How we participate in the world shapes the world.

You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.

At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.

I suspect that many of us, if given the chance to make one person in our lives love us more, would have no trouble in choosing where to point a finger. We are all needy, all vulnerable, all terrified that perhaps that person has an excellent reason to withhold affection. We shape our purposes to make ourselves worthy and often do not see until much later how it was love-or perhaps the lack of it-that both picked us up and dropped us off at crossroads.

I love nudity. And I love beautiful shapes.

We all talk to ourselves. A major key to success exists in what we say to ourselves, which helps to shape our attitude and mindset.

Things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

If some confectioners were willing To let the shape announce the filling, We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs, Bitten into and returned to the box.

Your soul can fly outward, stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand. Be still and listen to the evidence of your own holiness.

This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

I like that my body is in shape and toned, and isn't too muscular. I feel I still have a woman's physique.

Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.

The shape I'm in, I could donate my body to science fiction.

But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.

Ideas are information taking shape.

We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.

In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums, Alexandrian lighthouses, miniature Parthenons. These charming follies contained neither royal corpses nor effigies of gods and goddesses; rather they contained large wooden tanks filled with water.

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.