Quotation Explorer - 'Form'

A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there are dogs in human form. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form. - Jean-Luc Godard
Perhaps the saddest part of coexistence is the concept of interdependence being necessary for any form of solidarity to be realized. Being encouraged to lean on the weak, does not sound like a long term viable solution to attaining strength. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.
WORSHIP, n. Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride. - Ambrose Bierce
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. - Mortimer Adler
It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist. - Sir Arthur Eddington
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing. - Randy K. Milholland
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. - Ambrose Bierce
Thoughts might not be solid and always obtainable, but they become your reality when emotions are attached to them. Over time, they become your wants and form an attachment to your behavior. - Shannon L. Alder
There is no such thing as total oblivion for, in one form or another, life is an everlasting continuum. Copyright © M.T.Hallgarth 2009-2015 - M.T. Hallgarth
Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else. - Elizabeth Gilbert
Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick. - Mark Twain
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form. - T.S. Eliot
MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent. - Ambrose Bierce
Genuineness is often sacrificed in order to showcase the author's control over the form and subject matter, the end result technically sound but emotionally cold. - Jennifer S. Davis
Love is the highest form of meditation. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Anything you want can come true if you cast it in the form of a "golden goal" and apply EFT-Matrix Reimprinting to get clear and activate it "in the matrix". - Caryl Westmore
Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education. - Zhuangzi
Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical. - Mahatma Gandhi
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. - John F. Kennedy
It is not about the glory of the human form more about being human. - Tim Mann artist
Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail . We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on Earth to rule all of humanity. - Thomas Sankara
Silence is also a form of speaking. - Herta Müller
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Oscar Wilde
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong deisre to live taking the form of a readiness to die. - G. K. Chesterton
For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure. - Sara Sheridan
Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory. - Jim Carrey
Life itself is an art form. - Tyree Guyton
Religions differ only in the form; religions differ only in their methodology. - Osho
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen. - Sean O'Faolain
What is the own self of God? Where is the existence of God? He is within a human body. If any man achieves the Godhood, then his form will be manifested within others and transform them into his own form in the spiritual world. And that transformation does not occur after death - Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the form of images and abstractions through which their desires, sense of identity, and memories are replicated and then sold back to them as products - Larry McCaffrey
Love can only be true and free when you are fully healed from painful past and any form of brokenness. - Kemi Sogunle
Puns are the highest form of literature. - Alfred Hitchcock
Calligraphy is an art form that uses ink and a brush to express the very souls of words on paper. - Kaoru Akagawa
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning. - George Bernard Shaw
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. - Thomas Jefferson
PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action. - Ambrose Bierce
The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk. - Oscar Wilde
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form. - Albert Einstein
Love is the purest form of a soul at peace. - Matthew Donnelly
Yet this thou art alive, but if ye soar,My poor frail heart will have beat out its cryAnd sadly miss thy sweet form all the moreWhile helplessly I stand and watch you die. - Timothy Salter
The truth is, life grows and evolved inside of you and, it has nothing to do with any other person except you. The truth of life grows and evolves, in the form of understanding. - Roshan Sharma
One form to rule them all, one form to find them, one form to bring them all and in the darkness rewrite the hell out of them
An income tax form is like a laundry list -- either way you lose your shirt. - Fred Allen
Anyone who objects to any government whatsoever as a form of socialism ought not to pull that socialist lever in their home, the one that makes their waste disappear in a whirlpool into the socialized sewage treatment plant. - John Médaille
To criticize one's country is to do it a service... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism--a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar rituals and national adulation. - J. William Fulbright (Senator)
Providing employment is the best form of social service, as it serves you, others, your country, your world - the entire society. - Amit Kalantri
Poverty is the worst form of violence. - Mahatma Gandhi
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall
Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking. - Robert Anton Wilson
Friends, the light has come to the earth. We now have no right any longer to be in any form of darkness, especially in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. - Sunday Adelaja
How do I recognize a real saint? Whom I shall see within me whether it is in dreams or trances or meditations, He will be the Saint to me. Because God is the only Saint in this world. He is within our bodies. When He will manifest within my body in the form of a person, he will be saint to me. - Jibankrishna
Without Psychological Evolution there cannot be any form of revolution. The self is constantly changing. Be involved, be evolved, be revolutionized as lucent and fresh as the new wave hitting at the shore. Become the Sea of Changes. It starts from within. - Grigoris Deoudis
Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is enclosed in illusion. - C.S. Lewis
She was rage and vengeance, wrath and malice, in beautifully twisted human form. - Kami Garcia
Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness. - Walter Brueggemann
The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone. - Mark Doty
Capitalists grow wealth. Socialists redistribute wealth.... but population grows, so the Socialist population control kicks in in the form of eugenics. - A.E. Samaan
So zu tun, als wäre man jemand anders, war eine tröstliche Form der Flucht, aber es bestand die Gefahr, dass der wahre Edward Manning unter all den Rollen nicht mehr zu erkennen war. - Lesley Pearse
Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known... - Vladimir Nabokov
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. - Jacques Maritain
My mother belonged to that group of low IQ individuals who find everything alarming and believe that raising your voice is the most effective form of communication. - Annabelle R. Charbit
People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are. - G.K. Chesterton
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. - Earl Warren
I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society. - Carlos Fuentes
PoemWords from the heartBreaking, teaching, healingThe deepest, purest form of artFeeling - Esther Spurrill Jones
The problem is that one man's superstition is another man's religion, and vice versa. Many Protestants today still see Catholicism as being rife with superstition, ... while atheists and agnostics would see bien-pensant Protestants as worshiping an equally absurd form of the supernatural. - David Gibson
I am groping about through this American forest of prejudice and proscription, determined to find some form of civilization where all men will be accepted for what they are worth. - P.B.S. Pinchback
[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad. - Christopher Hitchens
Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties. - Helen Keller
You must never, at any rate, lend yourself to the wrong, in any form, which you condemn. - Mamur Mustapha
When you live your life seeking the opinion and approval of others, you become a slave in your mind and soul to others. This is the worst form of slavery. - Dr. Bien Sufficient
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. - George Bernard Shaw
We only get one life. Wasting someone’s time is the subtlest form of murder. - Lindy West
The modern virtues fail because they concern the outer self, the human facade, the part of ourselves the world sees most readily while the classical virtues form an organizing framework for our inner selves… for our souls. - Jonathan V. Last
If I give you and apple and ask you, What is that?You reply, An apple.How do you know it’s an apple.Because it just is.How did it get to be an apple?It came form an apple.Exactly. So when I ask you, ‘What are you?’ You can honestly say, ‘I am a child of God because I came from God. - Toni Sorenson
I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality. - H.P. Lovecraft
Puns are just another form of sarcasm, which may or may not make you - smile, giggle, or laugh. - Aniruddha Sastikar
Once the frontiers of horror have been crossed, one will pass from form to form beyond the human and from metamorphosis to metamorphosis to accomplish, in the anguish of an impossible return, the most terrible journey to the depths of darkness. - Georges Limbour
People worship power in the form in which they are able to understand it. - George Orwell
Emotions form pure, profound bondsEmotions may blind us but they bind us. - Balroop Singh
The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes. - Dave Barry
Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was a "democracy". - A.E. Samaan
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. - Ronald Reagan
Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form they might have, for there is much to prevent one's knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the shortness of man's life. - Protagoras
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. - Bonnie Friedman
The ultimate form of forgiveness is in comprehending there’s nothing to forgive. - Roy Bennett
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. - Andre Maurois
The most common form of despair is not being who you are. - Søren Kierkegaard
It's not the content, but the form of thought that counts. - Orhan Pamuk
As I have no form now, I will be recreated;into unknown new shapes, colours and forms distorted.the 'I' in me has faded, and passed on, to a distant land, - Drunken Mystic
Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same: you forget yourself.
Daydreaming is the purest form of being. Take that away and One suffers. - Solange nicole
When we move about the planet seeing with the eyes of the heart, we connect with humanity on the deepest level possible and remember one of our soul's promises: to bring the wonders of Heaven, which reside in the Sacred Heart, to earth in physical form. - Molly Friedenfeld
Simply put: Epistemic games recreate in game form the things that people do in the real world to learn to think in innovative and creative ways about problems that matter. - David Williamson Shaffer
Philosophy is the abstract art of thoughts and perceptions that form colors of words and languages that paint the canvas of our minds. - Debasish Mridha
Art is an imagination, projection, and reflection of the mind in a particular form that society can internalize and enjoy. - Debasish Mridha
As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry nestled between her parents' bodies. Our bodies were shaped by her absence, by the almost unbearable weight of her loss. - Robert J. Wiersema
Give form to your vision. Disregard the fact that it appears to entail efforts. Express what you have inside and communicate it everywhere. - Franco Santoro
...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly... - Sappho
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Darkness scares us. We yearn for the comfort of light as it provides shape and form, allowing us to recognize and define what's before us. But what is it we're afraid of really? Not the darkness itself, but the truth we know hides within. - Emily Thorne
We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it? - David Mamet
Noise in the form of words'; that’s what life is about. - Kaoutar Chahbane
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. - Gene Fowler
I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. - Mark Rothko
Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness in dying as in procreation. - Iwan Goll
Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights. - A.E. Samaan
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
I wish there were strict laws to stop people from corrupting other people's mind with their negativity thus influencing them to form biased opinion of someone, some situation or overall way of living. - Arti Honrao
Warum ist eigentlich das demokratische System besser?... Es ist besser, weil es die volle Entwicklung des Menschen als Individuum möglich macht. Aber... das zeigt nur, daß die Demokratie eine >angenehmere< Form der Regierung ist [...]. - Robert Dallek
Logic in all its infinite potential, is the most dangerous of vices. For one can always find some form of logic to justify his action, and rest comfortably in the assurance, that what he did abides by reason. That is why, for us brittle beings, Intention is the only true weapon of peace. - Ilyas Kassam
In protesting for your rights in any form you may, but it's only good, If they can understand your problems and feelings and not only to judge you. - Auliq Ice
If you make someone suffer today, without any doubt, you will be punished by your conscience. Don’t hurt anyone in anyway or form. - Debasish Mridha
Silence is the highest form of meditation. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Things of the world are not in a ‘seed’ form; they are in a form of a ‘fruit’. One has come with a ready farm; all he has to do is harvest the fruits now. - Dada Bhagwan
This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn) - Mercedes Lackey
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness - Robert Muller
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. For while in all other kinds of art it is possible to distinguish the matter from the form, and the understanding can always make this distinction, yet it is the constant effort of art to obliterate it. - Walter Pater
All of life comes in seed form not as monuments. - Amy Layne Litzelman
As Bernard Shaw has pointed out, we are all born under the death sentence, so the time and the form may be mere details. - J. Jefferson Farson
Let emotion inform, but not form, your decision - Chaitanya Charan Das
I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. - Stephen Hawking
I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't. - Marilyn Vos Savant
NW" is full of split selves, people alienated from the very things they thought defined them. Their nostalgia -- for old movies, old songs, buses they don't ride anymore -- is less a salve than a form of pain. - Christian Lorentzen
Everybody starts the journey but not everybody completes it; and even those who reach the destined point reach there in different forms and they form different destinies. Be careful as you journey in life! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
people are too quick to give their hearts away, i mean, be fearless; run wild into their arms, but for goodness sake know your worth. A being of wisdom knows their heart is the breath of their existence and only a honorable love deserves to feel it at its purest form. - Nikki Rowe
The deformity of Christ forms you. If he had not willed to be deformed, you would not have recovered the form which you had lost. Therefore he was deformed when he hung on the cross. But his deformity is our comeliness. In this life, therefore, let us hold fast to the deformed Christ. - Augustine of Hippo
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. - John Constable
They say copying is a form of flattery, I say it's lack of originality. - Elizabeth Blade
Never go to another woman about your woman. Not unless you want an insidious form of advice. - Donna Lynn Hope
Domestic violence is any behavior involving physical, psychological, emotional, sexual or verbal abuse. It is any form of aggression intended to hurt, damage, or kill an intimate person. - Asa Don Brown
To neglect ones own ability to laugh is the greatest form of Blasphemy, for to laugh is to pray. - Ilyas Kassam
Thought isn't a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered. - Vladimir I. Vernadsky
People can enjoy music everywhere. Therefore, music is more than a giftbecause it represents a unique form of human freedom. - Eraldo Banovac
Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start. - Tom Clancy
The food you eat can be either the safest & most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison - Ann Wigmore
Each time we allow our interest to take a back sit in favor of others, which is a form of death. - Sunday Adelaja
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. - Will Rogers
I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance. - Guru Nanak
Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public. - Christian Bauman
In it's purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on retaliation lies on the furthering cycle of violence. Still, it's a risk that must be met; and the greater offense is to allow the guilty go unpunished. - Emily Thorne
Love, is sometimes a simpler form of slowly dying, it's like a bullet that ricochets off time's walls of desire, waiting to hit that picture perfect heart of regrets. - Anthony Liccione
Aloneness is a gift. A beautiful gift to the human soul. True and consistent satisfaction comes from the bond you form with yourself. Nobody else is a constant - Mohadesa Najumi
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. - Rita Mae Brown
We are advised to meditate on things that are true, lovely, noble, gracious and bring good report. These should form the basis of our thought pattern. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined. - Noam Chomsky
Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages. - Auguste Rodin
By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. By extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty. - Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. - Mitch Albom
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well. - Albert Einstein
One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form. - Anne Fadiman
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens. - H.L. Mencken
Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action. - Julian Assange
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. - Karl Barth
In the future, violence would clearly become a valuable form of social cement. - J.G. Ballard
When you love something, you seek to learn its primitive form and also its concentrated form. - Unarine Ramaru
Marriage is the union of two 'I's to form a 'V'. Both 'I's have to tilt equally to make a good 'V'. 'I's standing tall can never make a 'V'. - Ashok Kallarakkal
The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison. - Ann Wigmore
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form. - Raymond Carver
Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos. - Frank Herbert
Don't try to fit into another person's mold, be bold and beautiful in your own shape and form. - Eveth Colley
I keep thinkingThat poetry is something else:A form of love that exists only in silence,In a secret place between two people,Almost always between two strangers - José Emilio Pacheco
Compassion is the highest form of love. Kindness is the best way to express love. - Debasish Mridha
And that is the problem with a society that doesn't read books. The most painful form of censorship does not come from a centralized, repressive government. It is a cast, black cloak of a nation's indifference. - Lourd de Veyra
I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him. - Eric Clapton
Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best. - Napoleon Hill
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. - Aldous Huxley
Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. - Frank Lloyd Wright
Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power. - James Howe
Name and form are simply illusions of separation. Love doesn’t make us blind; rather, it erases the illusions so we can see clearly. - Kamand Kojouri
The biggest form of witchcraft is denying someone information. - Unarine Ramaru
Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth. - Dr. Seuss
You know that when a group of utility workers are withholding their customer service identification cards, they are likely engaging in some form of illegal activity at your home. - Steven Magee
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form. - Simone de Beauvoir
The coast redwood is a so-called relict species. It is a tiny remnant of a life form that once spread in splendor and power across the face of nature. The redwood has settled down in California to live near the sea, the way many retired people do. - Richard Preston
The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy. - Yevgeny Zamyatin
Hey, maybe instead of going to college, you should drop out and I could quit my job and we can form an all-girl band with Lane, you know, like Bananarama. We could call it Tangerinarama or Banana-fana-fo-fana-rama…or something. - Daniel Palladino
They support freedom for themselves and slavery for everyone else, and they use the freedom of the market to disguise this fact. Economic coercion is just a different form of force, which they couple with the fraud of calling it freedom. I was like them, but I will never be like them again. - Robert Peate
The utmost form of respect is to give sincerely of your presence. - Mollie Marti
It is through strength of character, not luck, do we form the predictable path of our future. - Shannon L. Alder
Globalization is a form of artificial intelligence. - Erol Ozan
Resistance is the subtlest form of attachment. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal
While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. - Groucho Marx
Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. The soul is in a manner all that is: the soul is the form of forms. Tranquillity sudden, vast, candescent: form of forms. - James Joyce
Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Try not to see it as an invitation to compete. - Andrena Sawyer
Facing the world full of confidence is sometimes out of your league particularly if you have come up against or been compromised by adversity in some form. - Auliq Ice
To make yourself something less than you can be - that too is a form of suicide. - Benjamin Lichtenberg
Giving is not favor; it's a form of self-reparation. - Chinonye J. Chidolue
No one can stop you from having great moments with your kids because they believe the hero inside of you. A kiss and warm hug are sure the best treat and possibly the sweetest but simple form of them saying how much they love you. - Karl Gornal
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies. - Bette Davis
It was a desire, an echo, a sound; she could drape it in color, see it in form, hear it in music, but not in words; no, never in words. She sighed, teased by desires so incoherent, so incommunicable. - Virginia Woolf
Let us liberate ourselves from any form of control. Let us focus at the inner drum, where the rhythm aligns with that of our heart. The measure of responsibility, equals to the need for evolution. Just listen, the inner child, let it whisper in your ear. - Grigoris Deoudis
A thick, intense fog was rolling in from the ocean, which created long, strange shadows to form like creatures of their own kind. - Keira D. Skye
Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal. - John Fowles
Once or twice I saw evidence that rats had been nesting among the books, rearranging them to make snug two and three-level homes for themselves and smearing dung on the covers to form the rude characters of their speech. - Gene Wolfe
Fearlessness can be its own form of power. - Glenn Greenwald
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form. - Stephen Nachmanovitch
Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically. - L. M. K. Boelter
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality. - Christina Baldwin
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, orperhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But I amsure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. - Aaron Copland
Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding. - Bill Bullard
The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly. - Isabel Paterson
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. - Sir Winston Churchill
Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to transformations that can not only make it safe for public consumption, not a powerful vehicle through which to address the public imagination. - Jennifer Birkett
Kindness if the best form of prayer and a gift of pure love. - Debasish Mridha
Beneath all this he is able to identify as well the dangers of a humanism which shuts out the humane and transcendent horizons and can threaten a new form of the dark night of the soul. - Abdumalik Nysanbayev
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. - Karl Marx
The artist must be blind to "recognized" and "unrecognized" form, deaf to the teachings and desires of his time. His open eyes must be directed to his inner life and his ears must be constantly attuned to the voice of inner necessity. - Wassily Kandinsky
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. - Peter Ustinov
I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril. [The World Is My Home (1991)] - James A. Michener
I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions. - George Carlin
I love and enjoy writing.Writing is a form of daily communication.It a communication to higher divine power. - Lailah Gifty Akita
We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind. - William Shakespeare
Form delicious bonds. Be the fruit that others seek when their hearts and souls are hungry. - Erica Alex
I'm not here to win the rat race of materialism. I am here to experience the depths of my soul in form. - Erin Fall Haskell
Poetry is more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet. It can give you strength no one can defeat - Stanley Victor Paskavich
Writing is a lifelong disease. Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you. - J.R. Tompkins
The purpose of music as an art form, is to engage the audience. - Unarine Ramaru
Some of us will experience some form of mental illness in their lifetime... I rather have depression that can be treated with a pill and my free will to conquer it; than have a physical illness that results in my demise because no matter what I did I could not conquer it. - Brian Michael Good
We don't see where the wind comes form, we hear it.In a way we become aware of our own Surroundings.Perception becomes reality.reality becomes Perception. - Jerril Thomas Abraham
Beauty in its simplest form doesn't need appraisal or constant change; it is viewed and valued with grace and honesty for what it is and criticizing it will only demean its value. - Christine Hallfeldt
Dying, however, is lonely, the loneliest event of life. Dying not only separates you from others but also exposes you to a second, even more frightening form of loneliness: separation from the world itself. - IRVIN D.YALOM
Scientists or thinkers who try to discover the truth cannot find that higher life by thinking alone, but their own life, spent in search for the truth and neglecting the physical living, is just that higher form of human existence. - Alija Izetbegović
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. - T.S. Eliot
I want excitement; and I don’t care what form it takes or what I pay for it, so long as it makes my heart beat. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wisdom most of the time takes form of advice. - Veda Catherine Storey
So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe. - Emma Goldman
Sin is nothing more than a most extreme form of amnesia. It is forgetting who were when we were created as a spirit that came forth from the heart of God the Father—as a spirit made in His sinless image. - Praying Medic
Racists will always call you a racist when you identify their racism. To love yourself now - is a form of racism. We are the only people who are criticized for loving ourselves. and white people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me. - John Henrik Clarke
People form close friendships by knowing private things about each other, and the reason most people don't make close friends is because they're too embarrassed to share anything really important about themselves. - Eliezer Yudkowsky
The externalization of memory [via the use of external symbolic storage systems] has altered the actual memory architecture within which humans think, which is changing the role of biological memory, the way in which the human brain deploys its resources, and the form of modern culture. - Merlin Donald
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. - Oprah Winfrey
Forgiveness is the final form of love. - Reinhold Niebuhr
Curiosity was a form of lust, a wandering cupidity of the eye and the mind.
Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form. - Victor Hugo
Democracy imposed from without is the severest form of tyranny.
Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue. - Diane Ackerman
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity. - William Shakespeare
Nobody can take your faith away form you. Faith is something you have to lose for yourself. - Christina Engela
For, in his opinion, to study nature was a form of worship. - Iain Pears
Invisible God sends His messenger in the form of a stranger to a kind passenger to guide him to the true path through the mirage of a life's journey. - Anuj Somany
I can see God in a daisy. I can see God at night in the wind and rain. I see Creation just about everywhere. The highest form of song is prayer. King David's, Solomon's, the wailing of a coyote, the rumble of the Earth. - Bob Dylan
In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off of things as they really are. - Colin E. Gunton
Don’t swallow your moral code in tablet form. - Christopher Hitchens
[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life. - Harold Urey
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. - William Ralph Inge
The ‘Gnani’ is in the form of an instrument to attain the goal (Experience of Pure Soul). The goal is the scientific form of Soul (vignan swarup atma). - Dada Bhagwan
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, but worship is the greatest form of adoration. - Jayce O'Neal
I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism. - Jeff Grubb
Education in the form of knowledge and wisdom are only as powerful as how we use them in our daily lives. - Matthew Donnelly
Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest. - Eddie Vedder
The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page, resembles our technique of living day by day--a way of relating. - Joyce Carol Oates
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is - Phillips Brooks
Life is too short not to show your truest form EVERY day... Live it, Like it, Love it and then push for more ~~ - Jennie L. Hopkins
The human spirit is so utterly one with the body that the term "form" can be used of the body and retain its proper meaning. Conversely, the form of the body is spirit, and this is what makes the human being a person. - Pope Benedict XVI
Everybody has somebody. It could be a friend, a lover, a spouse, a writing partner, or even That One Person You See At The Coffee Shop each day. Sometimes they exist to comfort you. Sometimes they exist to drive you absolutely mad. Be open to either as a form of self-improvement. - Terry Pratchett
We humans have two things that set us apart and make us able to do what no other form of life can—reason and feel. That’s because we have brains and hearts. - Toni Sorenson
Writing is a form of art. Do not use New Times Roman or Arial because it's boring and hackneyed. - Natalya Vorobyova
Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness. - Aaron Copland
Be always adventurous in the creating and sharing of your art in any form. Take risks and do not settle for playing safe. If you hesitate you are restraining your creativity. Some will appreciate your creative work and others will not. Just be free in expressing the creative you! - Alison Blackmore
The Bible may be an arresting andpoetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should giveyour children to form their morals. - Richard Dawkins
The simplified form of life is your Master, follow him without hesitation. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. - William Ellery Channing
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. - Albert Einstein
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. - George Bernard Shaw
Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms. - Eckhart Tolle
Absolution is the most powerful form of forgiveness. A full pardon from suspicion and accountability. It's the liberation of a stolen future. A future my father never lived to see. Absolution is a mercy the people who killed him will never know. - Emily Thorne
No matter how small you are or feel or think you are–live big. Yours is the only life of you, in this form, the world will ever have! - Na'ama Yehuda
Perhaps pondering words is also a form of seeking justice. If a monologue can invite a chorus, then perhaps it can speak for others as well. - Duo Duo
Information may appear in a digital form but meaning never does. - R.A.Delmonico
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. - Joseph Conrad
The greatest form of abortion is not letting the man put it there in the first place! - Onuoha Adanma
Happiness is the highest form of self-respect. A person who allows himself to be happy shows his self-respect. - Maery Rubin
Lots Of Valuable Effort is the true full form of LOVE. - Aishwarya Shiva Pareek
Writing is probably the only form of art, through which you can express, which you would otherwise wouldn't dare to say in person.... - Ramana Pemmaraju
This is the wonder of Christmas, that in the solitary form of an impoverished infant God has handed me everything that I could never create so that I can be everything that I could never be. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Man, as a form, bears within him the eternal principle of being, and by economic movement along his endless path his form is also transformed, just as everything that lives in nature was transformed in him. - Kazimir Malevich
Food is the most primitive form of comfort. - Sheila Graham
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. - Howard Scott
Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love. - Charlotte Eriksson
All religions, in their pure form, will tell you God is Love. And power, fear, division, judgment, oppression, hatred and self-righteousness are the opposite of Love. So going to war, for example, in the name of religion, is a complete contradiction. No pure religious leader would ever support this. - The Truth
Every time we say, "Let there be!" in any form, something happens. - Stella Terrill Mann
PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free. - Stanley Victor Paskavich
Anger-pride-deceit-greed are in the form of ‘discharge’. But if one does not have ‘knowledge of True Self’ (realization of the self), then he ‘charges’ new karmas within. - Dada Bhagwan
It was as if hell itself had taken human form and come up from the abyss. - Brima Lamin & Chantale Wesley-Lamin, The Walk - Memoir of a Liberian Civil War Survivor, 2016
The perfection of yoga, therefore, does not terminate in voidness or impersonalism; on the contrary, the perfection of yoga is attained when one actually sees the Personality of Godhead in His eternal form. - A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The details of what we call our lives go sometimes to form patterns of meaning not unlike those to be found in our preferred sort of fiction. - Gerald Murnane
PLEASURE, n. The least hateful form of dejection. - Ambrose Bierce
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.
What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten. - Judith Martin
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. - John Berger
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism. - C.G. Jung
Enlightenment lacks any form of judgment. - Kamand Kojouri
The highest form of wisdom comes from deep observation, kind realization, and curious actualization. - Debasish Mridha
APOSTATE, n. A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle. - Ambrose Bierce
If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.
Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand. - Y.K. Raikou
No form of revenge could have made me hate you any less. If I had cut the two of you to shreds with a knife, I think I would have hated the little pieces of you just the same. - Kanae Minato
Create space in your mind for the harsh memories too. Don’t ever cower from a teacher. Learn and live higher because you know how to use those dark memories as stepping-stones to think your way to a higher form of living. - Toni Sorenson
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. - Ambrose Bierce
Chastity is the greatest form of perversion. - Oscar Wilde
I am glad that I can tell the truth, for lies are a form of theft; the liar steals from another person's trust. There are liars all over the world who have grown rich on the trust they have stolen. - Najaf Mazari
Let’s form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we’ll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct. - Ryan Lilly
Each time we choose to step down for others that is a form of death to self. - Sunday Adelaja
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. - Stephen Leacock
We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised. - David Assael
In the moment we're born, we're drawn to form a union with others. An abiding drive to connect, to love, to belong. In a perfect union, we find the strength we cannot find in ourselves. But the strength of the union cannot be known until it is tested. - Emily Thorne
You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love. - Sri Chinmoy
Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words. - Unarine Ramaru
I regard taking healthy sea level adapted children to the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea as a form of child abuse. - Steven Magee
Self -pity is the worst form of poison. It kills a person without the person realizing it ~ Aarush Kashyap - Kirtida Gautam
If an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people. - David Foster Wallace
[...] rationalism is a form of intellectual bigotry which, in thinking about reality, tries to take it into account as little as possible. - José Ortega y Gasset
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. - Albert Einstein
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling. - H. L. Mencken
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it. - George Santayana
There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can form no surer bond with it than through art. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the beginning the Poets and Philosophers taught the world to see. Then after that any form of education was no longer free. - Stanley Victor Paskavich
Truth is a fundamental principle that is needed for any form of building or construction. So also is honesty. - Sunday Adelaja
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities. - Socrates
Life is a form of continuous sufferings and lies. - Yahia Kareem
Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment. - Og Mandino
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. - Hannah Arendt
Cruelty against innocent helpless animals is the worst form of violence. - Debasish Mridha
Your pain is trying to tell you something. It is not an accident, a curse, or an inconvenience. Pain is a form of self-communication. - Vironika Tugaleva
Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong - James Branch Cabell
We need not fear death, for it is simply the next phase of life. We never die, we simply change form - just as we have since the day we were born. - The Truth
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. - Baruch Spinoza
Réduites à des théories générales, les mathématiques seraient une belle forme sans contenu.Reduced to general theories, mathematics would be a beautiful form without content. - Henri Lebesgue
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form. - Plato
We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty. - John Ruskin
Philosophy, in its simplest form, is the exploration of the beauty and ugliness of life. - Debasish Mridha
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem
Waiting is a form of passive persistence. - Ogwo David Emenike
Our lives are a divine expression no matter how messy and weird they may be. How much more meaningful can it get? The source is experiencing itself in form in a conscious, awake way. - Enza Vita
In a sense, we are all crashing to our death from the top story of our birth ... and wondering with an immortal Alice at the patterns of the passing wall. This capacity to wonder at trifles - no matter the imminent peril - these asides of the spirit ... are the highest form of consciousness. - Vladimir Nabokov
The glass of fashion and the mould of form - William Shakespeare
Unique feelings are so unique that they can not be popularized. Feelings without words in the dictionary disappear. Every year thousands of feelings disappear for lack of a concrete form. - Isidore Isou
We all came from the same source and it's energy in form of light shining in every consciousness. - Dave Zebian
If you don't get any motivation from your team, there is nothing wrong with those you lead but your form of leadership. - Unarine Ramaru
Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true. - J.R.R. Tolkien
The highest form of wisdom is to be simple and live in the beauty of love. - Debasish Mridha
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning. - Aaron Copland
I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that. - Linda Ellerbee
Nobody introduces us to inspiration…it glows in our thoughts, it lives in our heart,It is all around us in the form of sunshine, in the clouds. It changes our reality - choice lies with us. - Balroop Singh
Word warfare is going on, which is not less destructive than any War. Words can be more destructive than any type of destructive weapons. Violence of any form starts in human mind and manifests in emotions, behaviors and finally in actions. - William Gomes
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. - Mahatma Gandhi
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man. - Henry Fairfield Osborn
I would suggest that the theater is the art form that most fully offers us an opportunity to reflect on the Incarnation because it is the presentation of one body to another. - Mother Dolores Hart
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
The beauty of a statue is in its outward form; of a man in his conduct. - Demophilus
the important people in our lives leave imprints. they may die or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart - Jules Renard
What we say about ourselves is always a form of fiction. - Marty Rubin
She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment. - Émile Zola
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets —no, they're little gifts, containing meanings! - Philip Roth
#3528. The law respects form less than substance.
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! - William Shakespeare
If the wealth you've accumulated is in the form of friends, family and books, then you're doing life right. - Saleem Sharma
Forming Holiness with filthy hands and heart which leads to a disastrous future is like trying to impress or form when your life is without formation. - Peter Isekiigbe DE Rock
Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material into some form of beauty, is a gift beyond measure. - Gloria Ng
Play is the highest form of research. - Albert Einstein
Work is a form of service to God. - Sunday Adelaja
Love has no form, no color and is certainly not prejudice or judgmental. - Matthew Donnelly
Dignity is the only one thing I have chosen over rules and benefits of slavery. I am not perfect because I chose to be myself; a human and this is the simplest form of dignity. - Rola Mahmoud
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances but cannot bring into being the substance itself. - Mary Shelley
Practice form, recognize forms, hone your natural gift, and let everything you experience teach you to never be a comparison. This is how art lasts, by pulling form first from the past. - James Emlund
When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible interpretation and usually resort to cheap psychology. A sense of fatalism is the only form of relief left. - Francesca Marciano
The truth will form and fall apart again. - Sarah Slean
Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated - Alan W. Watts
Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
Cottage cheese, broken down into its simplest form, is milk that has been curdled to mimic the cellulite its consumption is meant to banish. - Elsie Love
There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with outward beauty of form, corresponding and harmonizing with the former, because the same great pattern enters both. - Plato
My words are not a form of free advice. They are born through my journey called life! - Trishna Damodar
Sorrowful tears drench the earth, rise again in the form of hope - Connie Jordan
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves. - Ken Robinson
Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is but one thing only: Buy Low - Sell High. Capitalism is what happens when a government allows free association and respects property rights. It is a symptom of liberty. - A.E. Samaan
My biggest question was how to get rid of desire while going after your dreams? Dreams are desire in some way, shape or form. My answer is go after your dreams but don't get lost in your actions by staying present as often as possible. - Matthew Donnelly
Determination is learning to form a habit, and never breaking it in future. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it’s just better form. - Geoffrey Wood
Having studied the toxic biological effects of wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation, I find it amazing that women will willfully strap on two radio frequency antennas to their breasts in the form of an underwired bra. The wireless industry knows the underwired bra as a dipole antenna or doublet. - Steven Magee
PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. - Ambrose Bierce
Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience. - Leo Rosten
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.
For me, writing isn't about money and fame. It's about passion, an art form that I want to share with the world, expand the horizons to new worlds, new experiences, and new adventures. - Jason W. Blair
In my personal life, especially as I am aging, I find that the biggest mistakes I make and the biggest risks I run all result form mindless hurrying. - Edgar H. Schein
I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me after my death. I do not believe in such ceremonies, and to submit to them, even as a matter of form, would be hypocrisy and an attempt to delude ourselves and others. - Jawaharlal Nehru
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. - Benjamin Cardozo
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth. - Socrates
I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic reality.
All art is a form of vulnerability because at least part of the artist goes into the piece. - A.D. Posey
The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form. - Jefferson Davis
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it. - James Russell Lowell
The truly noble heart sacrifices itself for others’ good, to defend the weak and the good against evil. To a heart like this, a heart devoted to chivalry, courage is a matter of form. - J. Aaron Gruben
The highest form of wisdom is often hidden in simplicity. - Debasish Mridha
Not upholding a persons legal rights is a form of abuse. Unfortunately, USA government abuse of the general public is a normal state of affairs in many areas. - Steven Magee
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. - Maya Angelou
POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines. - Ambrose Bierce
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't. - Lenny Bruce
The Noblest form of Affection - Oscar Wilde
Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world. - Stefan Collini
Music is the strongest form of magic. - Marilyn Manson
Forgiveness is the highest form of a gift of kindness and it brings freedom from the prison of hatred and revenge. - Debasish Mridha
[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's stories -- entering into their feelings, validating their experiences -- is the highest way of acknowledging their humanity, the sweetest form of usefulness. - William Deresiewicz
Hate is often an obverse form of love.You hate someone whom you really wish to love but whom you cannot love. - Sri Chinmoy
Geschichte ist die geistige Form, in der sich eine Kultur ueber ihre Vergangenheit Rechenschaft gibt. [transl.:] History is the mentalintellectual form, in which a culture renders account of its past to itself.
i am open + free to create in abundance. i am deserving of my own love + it comes in the form of art. - The Nyghtlie Poet
When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature. - Sydney Smith
I went to watch the Buzkasgu game taking place on a series of fields - some fallow, some plowed and planted- just to the east of the empty Buddha niches. Buzkashi is a form of polo played with a dead goat instead of a ball. - Rory Stewart
Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day. - Lemony Snicket
From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power. - Donna J. Haraway
Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains. - Ralph Ellison
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. - Rudolf Rocker
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. - Ansel Adams
Life is complicated. It's a form of joy to have no other choice. - M.O. Walsh
We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality. - M.R. Mathias
I am like the water that runs over me, immune to permanence, recycling endlessly. I am water; I am life. The form may change, but the substance stays the same. Strike me down and I will rise again. Vincit qui patitur. - Rick Yancey
Music happens to be a form that transcends all languages.
Gratitude is a form of worship in its own right, as it implies the acceptance of a power greater than yourself. - Stephen Richards
We know that energy can not be created nor destroyed but can be changed in it's form. If it can not be formed then it can not exist. We may not exist. - Mohammed Ali
Mental Slavery remains the biggest form of oppression till this day. New insights or ideas is what shines freedom from such an oppression. - Unarine Ramaru
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. - Friedrich Schiller
The psychosphere, the logosphere, is permeated by concepts, ideas, verbalizations, a whole apparatus devised, or rather evolved, to form some sort of mental contact with reality--or to block it off. That is, a large circle of the "thinking," "educated" class take ideas as more veridical than facts. - Robert Conquest
Life in this form is one-time chance, death is the inevitable consequence for anyone who is born. The record of one’s death is the primary respect one could render to the lost one. Tears of all relatives of missing people are indeed flowing due to this invaluable action by the authority. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa
I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves. - Diego Rivera
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. - George Bernard Shaw
Even if you fulfill your hearts desire, by sacrificing something important, you may not necessarily be happy. Happiness doesn’t come in one form, it determined by your own heart. - Ai Yazawa
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism. - William Phillips
Sin is really an extreme form of amnesia. It is forgetting who you were when you were created as a spirit which came forth from the heart of God—a spirit made in His perfect, sinless image. - Praying Medic
You must take these poems as mirrors; for you know that the mirror has no form of itself, but rather reflects the face of anyone who looks in it. Just so a poem has no one particular meaning of itself , but presents to each reader his state of the moment and the completeness of his case - Ayn al-Qazat Hamadani Persian Mystic
Imagination is tapping into the subconscious in a form of open play. That is why art or music therapy, which encourages a person to take up brushes and paint or an instrument, and just express themselves, is so powerful. - Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney
The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him. - Andrei Tarkovsky
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. - C. S. Lewis
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. - Winston S. Churchill
If time were to take on human form, would she be your taskmaster or freedom fighter? - Richie Norton
Bringing the essence of life in form of experience is the most crucial element in the development of human mind. - Maitreya Rudrabhayananda
To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.
Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art: Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote The unreasonable fury of a beast: Unseemly woman in a seeming man! Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both! - William Shakespeare
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine. - Pablo Picasso
Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. - Edith Sitwell
The Wolf trusts the universe... Because, she chose a form that made him feel comfortable... THE MOON... And not only because it listened to his howl… but it followed what he said in actions - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K
The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any more than the existence of Mozart makes the existence of Bach superfluous. - Lloyd Alexander
Caveman used to be a hunter-gatherer...Modern man hunts for jobs(if he wants to be an employee) and for heads (if he is an employer), and later gathers paper in the form of currency notes, contracts, policies or shares. - Ankala V Subbarao
Procrastination is a form of punishment - Jill Badonsky
To think that two bodies, crooked by life into question marks, when encountering one another did not form a heart.. To do that, all we needed was to look each other in the eye. But you looked away. - Anna Jae
I've been wondering if in fact ideal platonic love isn't just an intensely concentrated form of what inspires the best teachers. - Edmund Marlowe
When psychologically unfit form the majority in any sect, and yet proclaim to be the only fittest, will not only be a threat to the existence of the sane minority, but are surely catastrophic for the human race as a whole! - Ramana Pemmaraju
Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens. - Nicholson Baker
Imagination is the highest form of research. - Albert Einstein
Dictatorship is without a doubt the most satisfying form of government...as long as I'm the dictator.
The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose. - Vincent van Gogh
Two things form the bedrock of any open society freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country."[Don’t allow religious hooligans to dictate terms (The Times of India, January 16, 2008)] - Salman Rushdie
Art is the essence of life in creative form. If you want to compete, run a damn race. If you truly want to create essence, you need to leave competition out of it. 2014 - Jenna Cornell
Forgiveness is the kindest form of revenge and it brings the sweetest form of peace on earth. - Debasish Mridha
To treat fiction as if it were a religious or moral sermon is about as far from the actuality of literature as it is possible to get and indeed it is, in my opinion, the purest form of intellectual barbarism. - Edward W. Said
We each have the innate ability to heal ourselves. To empower ourselves with natural solutions, instead of succumbing to life-altering chemicals. There's a time and place for pharmaceuticals, but it shouldn't be the first answer, nor the only form treatment. - Dana Arcuri
The highest form of prayer is to the goodness of God. . . . God only desires that our soul cling to him with all of its strength, in particular, that it clings to his goodness. - Ann Voskamp
If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about. - Harmony Korine
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger. - Cicero
If there is true ‘Selfishness,’ then there is ‘liberation of the Self’, and that indeed is one’s own form (the Self). - Dada Bhagwan
There are Tantrics who deliberately seek to do more active forms of renunciation, so transgression of social norms and breaking of taboo, and breaking of social taboos especially, is a form of renunciation. - Zeena Schreck
Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity and Color, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest. - Leonardo da Vinci
Memories and emotions could be the greatest form of torture. - A. Petrov
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. - Charles Simmons
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. - Dr. Joyce Brothers
Trust compared to a valuable stone that has been shattered, cannot be restored to its original form. - Ellen J. Barrier
The highest form of education teaches us to find the truth by searching with love, harmony, and gratitude. - Debasish Mridha
Perhaps a human simply falls back into himself upon the disintegration of his physical body, and continues to take form within the self of himself, simply returning from whence he came. - C. JoyBell C.
Kindness is the best form of justice. - Debasish Mridha
The warrior learns of the spiritual realm by dwelling on the cutting edge of the sword, standing at the edge of the fire pit, venturing right up to the edge of starvation if necessary. Vibrant and intense living is the warrior's form of worship. - Stephen K. Hayes
We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well. - Javier Marías
We need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence. - Sunday Adelaja
When I say I must write, I don't mean I must publish. There is a great difference. the important thing is the chaotic form given to my chaotic experience, which is, as it was for James Joyce, my kind of religion, and necessary for me...as the confession and absolution for a Catholic in church. - Sylvia Plath
When God blesses you, the highest form of gratitude is open-handedness. - Chinonye J. Chidolue
In Tsurani culture, forgiveness was simply a less shameful form of weakness than capitulation. - Raymond E. Feist
Christians ought to have a different approach to business. As believers, we should view work as both service and a form of worship. - Charles W. Colson
Each city receives its form from the desert it opposes. - Italo Calvino
An eye for an eye will only make the world bright. Sorry, Mahatma. This is the absolute and only true form of justice. - Natalya Vorobyova
All great art is a form of complaint - John Cage
Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made by your own hand. - Y.K. Raikou
Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind. - Debasish Mridha
Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. - Howard Scott
Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear -- and doubt. - H.A. Dorfman
The truth is that as you are building your small business, still that small business needs to experience some form of increase and growth - Sunday Adelaja
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. - Toni Morrison
Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out. - Charlotte Eriksson
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but theft is a sin. - Elena
People think about life in terms of changes, not levels. They can be changes from the status quo or changes from what was expected, but whatever form they take, it is changes that make us happy or miserable. - Richard H. Thaler
Music expresses those thoughts and words, which have no form but have longing for love. - Debasish Mridha
I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights) - Jerrold Mundis
Your lifestyle should show some form of responsibility for the nation where you were born and/or the nation where you live - Sunday Adelaja
Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced more true than truth itself. - Irenaeus of Lyons
The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them. - Steve Hall
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. - Oscar Wilde
Nothing is yet in its true form. - C.S. Lewis
What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness. - M. C. Escher
Our Heavenly Father did not form us and place us on this planet so that we would manage on our own. Neither does the popular saying, God helps those who help themselves, hold any water. The Truth is we all need help. Those who look strong and contained on the outside may not be so on the inside. - Eve Juurik
Imitation is the sincerest form of television. - Fred Allen
Perfection is a lie, and lying to others is explicable but lying to oneself is the highest form of deceit. - Chinonye J. Chidolue
Poets, with no sponsors, no agenda, are the truest form of freedom today, bleeding out every drop of themselves for the world to either hate or devour. - Jason E. Hodges
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance as it accumulates in the form of inert facts. - Henry Adams
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. - Thomas Jefferson
Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration. - Marc Chagall
When all that’s left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we’ll know what it means when the last human breath expires. - Zeena Schreck
No one can stop you from having great moments with your kids because they believe the hero inside of you. A kiss and warm hug are sure the best treat and possibly the sweetest but simplest form of them saying how much they love you. - Karl Gornal
As many ideas you can generate, encourage them to form nests in your mind, for one will surely liberate you. - Auliq-Ice
Ostracism is just another form of racism! - Mary-Ellen Peters
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. - Bruce Lee
Kindness is the highest form of service to the humanity. - Debasish Mridha
Everybody want to experience some form of pleasure in whatever they are doing and one of the sure ways of doing that is by seeing increase in your endeavors or results - Sunday Adelaja
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. - Ingrid Bengis
Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. - Kahlil Gibran
When sex and money are fused in the service of exploitation, the two create an even more destructive form of rage of a type often exhibited in narcissistic and potentially psychopathic populations. - Debra L. Kaplan
Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it. - Ayn Rand
The knowledge an artist possesses is an advanced form of daydreaming. - Marty Rubin
Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known. - Nellie L. McClung
The tendencies of democracies are, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge and principles of the majority form the tribunal of the appeal. - James Fenimore Cooper
The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgement that the community has already reached. - Woodrow Wilson
There are some who are born with talents and there are some who develop them in the form of skills. I am a part of the latter." - ! - Neetu Sugandh
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts. - Alan Cohen
Love, one way or the other, in whatever form, matters every moment in life. - Shampa Sharma
If I were asked to define Motherhood. I would have defined it as Love in its purest form. Unconditional Love. ~~ - Revathi Sankaran
Don't ever feel like your best days are behind you. Reinvention is the purest form of hope. Make today your best yet! - Phil Wohl
Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Opportunity...it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat. - Napoleon Hill
To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a ‘righteous’ form of prostitution. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If you don't have the right support form the right people you are always going to be the best choice and not the preferred choice. - Richmond Akhigbe
Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve. - George Santayana
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. - David Byrne
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change it can not only move us, it makes us move. - Ossie Davis
A strong work ethic is a form of accountability, because it involves keeping a promise to one's employer. It is not the same thing as workaholism. - Bruce Weinstein
Goodness without knowledge... is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous.... Both united form the noblest character and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind. Many men went a walking and many crippled men, did not. - John Phillips
The One that experiences itself as your body-mind is the same One that experiences itself in every other body-mind, form, or appearance that exists. - Enza Vita
Freedom and independence form my character. - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life. - Charles Bukowski
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi
Any form of art can be known only in deep silence, to be in silence is to be receptive - No sooner you become receptive, you become woman, it has nothing to do with gender, its a quality, which is why woman is epitome of Receptivity! - Ramana Pemmaraju
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. - E.L. Doctorow
Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation. - Benjamin Disraeli
I think our biggest form of climate change we should worry about is nuclear weapons. - Donald Trump
Impatience is a form of fear: fear of running out of time. - Russell Eric Dobda
Everyone should have a form of a diary it’s a great release Most people’s Diaries are called "My Diary" Mines called "Conversations with Me". - Stanley Victor Paskavich
It’s not words, but years we should be editing. Remember: time spent on bad art is a form of redundancy, doing the same thing twice is a form of tautology, and wasting precious moments complaining about life is a form of pleonasm. We should all learn to live our lives concisely. - Anthony Marais
To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence. - Andrei Lankov
The purest form of faith happens when you reach the bottom of your reasoning and find there is nothing that you can do that will make sense out of what you have been through. - Shannon L. Alder
Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. - Oscar Wilde
We must judge of a form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
I’ve always believed writing ads is the second most profitable form of writing. The first is ransom notes… - Phil Dusenberry
So she became a woman who held her head high, not in arrogance, or contempt, but because she knew that it was a form of cowardice to make a choice and then pretend you didn’t really make it - Kamila Shamsie
Writing therapy is my form of healing. Try and detach yourself from painful memories by infusing characters and then stepping back. - Phil Wohl
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions, there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated. - Paul Rand
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. - Sir Winston Churchill
To protect one’s own statement is the greatest form of violence. To impress upon others that his statement is correct is a form of violence itself. - Dada Bhagwan
Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. - Tom Robbins
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. - Carl Jung
I became a feminist upon the realization that, whether physical, mental, or emotional, everything involved in obtaining love and approval from men required some form of self-mutilation. - Maggie Young
Doubt is a form of pessimism that acts as an agent, which is sent to hinder prosperity on its materilization journey. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.
Critical to the fight against global terrorism is an ability to move beyond presuppositions and stereotypes in our attitudes and policies and to form partnerships that transcend an "us" and "them" view of the world. (p. 135) - John L. Esposito
Having a Great Ambition is also a Meditation. When our efforts are focussed sincerely, even during sleep, our brains will work on it, in the form of Dreams. - Dinesh Kumar Radhakrishnan
What happens after death is so glorious that our imagination, our feelings do not suffice to form even an approimate conception of it. Memories and Dreams, - Carl Jung
Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form. - Shannon L. Alder
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. - Jalaluddin Rumi
What's the point of all this magic, if no one really knows how to use it? But I guess the same could be said about life. Which is another form of magic, only less showy. - David Levithan
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