Quotes on Shapes

The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts which history exhibits, that possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes.

The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.

Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;_x000D_ _x000D_ Our meddling intellect_x000D_ _x000D_ Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things_x000D_ _x000D_ We murder to dissect._x000D_ _x000D_ Enough of Science and of Art;_x000D_ _x000D_ Close up these barren leaves;_x000D_ _x000D_ Come forth, and bring with you a heart_x000D_ _x000D_ That watches and receives.

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Enterprise is first creativity. You need creativity to see what's out there and shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different.

Angels and ministers of grace defend us!_x000D_ _x000D_ Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd,_x000D_ _x000D_ Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,_x000D_ _x000D_ Be thy intents wicked, or charitable,_x000D_ _x000D_ Thou com'st in such a questionable shape,_x000D_ _x000D_ That I will speak to thee.

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

As love is full of unbefitting strains,_x000D_ _x000D_ All wanton as a child, skipping and vain,_x000D_ _x000D_ Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye,_x000D_ _x000D_ Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms,_x000D_ _x000D_ Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll_x000D_ _x000D_ To every varied object in his glance

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.

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

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out.