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How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.

How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

How you go over hurdle one should be how you go over hurdle ten. You need the strength to accelerate, and to maintain form.

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

Human forms are perpetuated through sex, and sex also perpetuates human consciousness.

Human life must be some form of mistake.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.

Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.

Humor, together with irony,forms a safeguard against idolatry.

Hurts of childhood live on; in one form or other they are there to the end.

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred

I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion.

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.

I always have melodies flowing in my head - whether I'm just at home, at the mall, at a restaurant or wherever. I'm always humming along to the random melodies that form in my head.

I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the form itself…In short, a story that gives you the impression of the blues.

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

I am a superior form of human and I have absolutely no quirks or irrational impulses of any kind.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.

I am God, and all other gods are my imagery. I gave birth to myself. I am millions of forms excreating; eternal; and nothing exists except through me; yet I am not them they serve me.

I am interested in what I term gestalts; picture circumstances which bring together disparate images or ideas so as to form new meanings and new configurations.

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.

I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for an absolute, laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy.

I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such.

I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.

I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.

I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the world.

I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.

I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes a sign for a woman or a bird as I work... The first stage is free, unconscious... the second stage is carefully calculated.

I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them.

I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form.

I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.

I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.

I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to tap…we’re just getting started figuring out what the rules are.

I can honestly say that everything I've ever listened to has influenced me or motivated me in one way, form or fashion.

Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.

I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting.

I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth.