Best 2113 quotes in «form quotes» category

I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above.

I think the pleasure of form is that you have a companion with you besides all the poetry you have ever read.

I think we are worlds compressed into human form.

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it. Then I found that it intensively went into every irrelevancy under the sun - and that it didn't work. People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs.

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

It is an embarrassment that the dominant forms of matter in the universe remain hypothetical.

It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.

It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.

It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping.

It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.

It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.

It is not the material which gives life form but the space between the material that gives life form.

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

It is the combination of thought and love which forms the irresistible force of the law of attraction.

It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight.

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian.

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.

It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.

I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objective creation.

It never hurts to have friends around, so that's why you'd form a crew.

It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.

It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?

It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.

It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.

It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or not.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

It's impossible by micro-mutation to form any new species.

It's not as if I knew answers which I am going to set down in the form of a novel or a memoir or a sermon. It's, rather, I'm going to search myself for what I might have to say in this area.

It's only through form that we can realize emptiness

It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good.

It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.

It's the worst form of torture a person can imagine-the wait to die.