Shapes Quotes

We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become.

It’s the mind itself which shapes the body.

When a silhouette or shape is as beautiful as it is functional and relevant, that's true luxury.

The whole point with type is for you not to be aware it is there. If you remember the shape of a spoon with which you just ate some soup, then the spoon had a poor shape.

There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.

We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.

The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form.

My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.

Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.

Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.

None of us condone terrorism in any way, shape, or form, and I believe Hezbollah is a terrorist organization that was, is, and remains a threat to peace in the Mideast, and must be dismantled and disarmed.

...And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you’re marching towards. Everyone knows what you’re against; show them what you’re for.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.

I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.

My goals are so high that I don't have time to relax, in any way shape or form.

God expects you not simply to face the future; He expects you to embrace and shape the future--to love it and rejoice in it and delight in your opportunities.

The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

I'm in shape. Round is a shape.

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.

If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take very good care never to do the same again. If I had a message for my contemporaries, I said, it was surely this: Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success.

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

To believe in Him under any particular form is not enough. Accept Him in His numberless forms, shapes and modes of being, in everything that exists. Aim at the whole and all your actions will be whole.

Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property.

It is the mind that shapes the body

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.

Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

Life is a puzzle. Every piece fits together to create who we are, what we do, how we feel. Every experience shapes us into who we will eventually become.

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

Once you start believing in yourself, anything is possible. Once you start believing in yourself, your dreams take shape. The more you believe, the more you achieve.

A basic assumption shapes most Americans’ mindset about labor: the belief that the death of unions isn’t my problem because I’m not in a union. That assumption is wrong. Even if you aren’t a member, your pay is influenced by the strength or weakness of organized labor. The presence of unions sets off a wage race to the top. Their absence sets off a race to the bottom.

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning

There's still such chaos in me. Still so little firmly outlined. Just like my face: a formless mass that only takes on shape through the expression of the moment. The searching for our selves is the most agonizing