Best 2113 quotes in «form quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

Wisdom is infused into every form.

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

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

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

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

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

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

Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.

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.

Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet.

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

With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.

With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age.

Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models.

Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.

Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.

Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.

Words are an invitation to life, a request to bring energy into form. Choose your words carefully.