Best 2113 quotes in «form quotes» category

When forms begin to crumble there is always an opportunity for great deepening. By deepening I mean the arising of who you are beyond form.

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

When I do form an opinion, I'm very aggressive about it. But I don't form that opinion until I've done a tremendous amount of work.

When I'm in good form there are chances that rivals will worry more about you more than you about them.

When it appears that there is no choice, some form of illusion is operating.

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

When I was young there were lesbians who said "Oh, I will free myself of all norms of masculinity, all norms of heterosexuality ". And then, they ended up in very complex relationships that were maybe full of heterosexual power dynamics or full of lesbian forms of masculinity and they became very confused.

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.

When Jason Koumas is on form, he's the type of player who calls all the strings

When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.

When one has no form, one can be all forms.

When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.

When the seasons change, we experience a sympathetic internal shift. All life-forms open themselves up to receive cosmic redirection from nature during these crucial seasonal transitions, so we are likely to be more vulnerable and unsettled.

When the hoary old question of nature versus nurture comes around, sides form quickly.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.

When the conception of internal form is governed by edge, color appears to remain on or above the surface. I think, on the contrary, of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on, the surface.

When the music arrives in my mind, it gives me the direction and the form at the same time. It's integrated into the music itself.

When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

When we go deep within, into the deepest recesses of our hearts, we commune with God through meditation. It is through meditation that we can know that God is both with form and without form, with attributes and without attributes.

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

When we live up to our Constitution, let's form a Conga line around the Capitol and bungee jump off the dome.

When we meditate with love we go very, very high , above thought, above form. Your love will cause you to have a union.

When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.

When you have children love is always there in the best form.

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

When you have an animal in your home, a relationship forms very quickly, where that animal ceases to be an animal to you. It feels like a member of your family.

When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing; but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?

When you live for the fight, for the blood, the relationships you form are tenuous and easily broken.

Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions.

Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?

While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified.

While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.

Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

Wisdom is infused into every form.

Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.

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

witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages.

... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation.

With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.

Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.

Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.

Without question, bicycling is an efficient, economical and environmentally sound form of transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a great activity for families, recreational riders and commuters. Hillary, Chelsea and I have bicycles.