Best 2113 quotes in «form quotes» category

The chuckle is a perfectly acceptable form of laughter.

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

The classical allusions and the Platonic disquisitions on beauty are no longer a form of cover, but integral to Aschenbach's complex sexuality. Moreover, the wandering around Venice in pursuit of Tadzio isn't a prelude to some sexual contact for which Aschenbach is yearning.

The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms.

The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.

The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down.

The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.

The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true form each quality includes all the rest, for happiness is whole, and one feels whole when genuinely happy.

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.

The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.

The correct form factor for a laptop is obviously 12" and 2 lbs, and I don't understand why everybody gets that wrong.

The creation of a virtual image is a form of accident. This explains why virtual reality is a cosmic accident. It's the accident of the real.

The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.

The denial of racism is a form of racism itself.

The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others.

The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.

The distracted person, too, can form habits.

The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.

The duties I ask of myself are obligatory for absolutely every individual, everywhere. Moreover, just as I recognize these rights and duties of others, I would like the others to recognize them form me as well.

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.

The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.

The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into any other form.Yourown consciousnessisthe only formyouneed.

The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.

The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.

The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment.

The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.

The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.

The finite forms have fallen away and we have become God.

The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.

The form is the possibility of the structure.

The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.

The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent.

The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy.

The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.

The form came out of the function because it is for the audience that already knows the show, while hoping to get a new audience, too.

The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.

The form is always the measure of the obsession.

The function, what a nice form!

The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.

The forms are part of the mind, or really are the mind, they're just the contents of this universal night.

The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.

The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.