Best 2113 quotes in «form quotes» category

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine.

National discord is, like religion, a standardized form of revolt; and the moment a revolt is standardized, it is no longer a revolt.

National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants.

Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect.

Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.

Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another.

Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical

Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.

No, a euro referendum will not be part of a government programme if we get the chance to form one.

Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.

No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.

Nobody really even knows with whom the US is at war, or where. Everyone just knows that it is vital that it continue in unlimited form indefinitely.

No doubt, humans will do a lot of damage before we ultimately destroy ourselves. But life will continue without humans. New forms of intelligence will emerge long after this human experiment is over.

No fashion is ever a success unless it is used as a form of seduction.

No form, no manifestation of knowledge, is senseless.

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

No form of human exchange is more profitable than the exchange of ideas. If I give you a thought in return for one of your thoughts, each of us will have gained a 100 percent dividend.

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on.

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.

Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity.

No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

No mind, no form, I only exist; now ceased all will and thought; the final end of [Nature]]'s dance, I am it whom I have sought.

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.

No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the same power which gave it birth – yourself. (Genevieve Behrend)

Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the power which gave it birth-yourself.

Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.

Nothing old is ever reborn, but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been [born], will always reappear in a new form.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our own standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.

Not knowing where your food comes from is a primary form of alienation.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience, the empiricist posits the forms of being as constant.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Now death is with us in such abundance and hovers over us in so massive a form that we don't have time to invent a mythology, nor is our creativity directed toward same. Now it's to prevent death.

Observe the forms and beauties of sensible things and comprehend the Word of God in them. If you do so, the truth will reveal to you in all such things only He who made them.

Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.

Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when carried to the extreme.

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful.

Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.

Okay, are you really 'experimenting'? How do you know if you're really experimenting? You're working on it methodically and you're publishing the results! It's not an experiment if you don't publish the results in some verifiable and falsifiable form, okay?

Once form has been smashed, it has been smashed for good, and once a forbidden subject has been released, it has been released for good.