Quotes About Formation

fire. A blood-chilling caw cracked the brittle air. Rachel slid her machete from its canvas sheath, but the crow veered wildly and then rejoined the broken formation heading south toward the distant city of mutants.

What the hell is he talking about? Then he saw them, gathering in formation like tiny jets on a strafing run. He thought at first they were doves, but that made no sense, because doves didn't congregate in such coordinated patterns and they were too far inland to be seagulls. He couldn't judge their size or distance, so high and feathery was

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

Universes that expand too slowly will collapse back to a big crunch before galaxies can form; universes that expand too quickly do not allow islands of matter to condense out into galaxies and form stars.

The specific nuclear reaction that is needed to make carbon is a rather improbable one. It requires three nuclei of helium to come together to fuse into a single nucleus of carbon.

Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition

Traditional education tended to ignore the importance of personal impulse and desire as moving springs. But this is no reason why progressive education should identify impulse and desire with purpose and thereby pass lightly over the need for careful observation, for wide range of information, and for judgment is students are to share in the formation of the purposes which activate them

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.

It may be that it is only by the grace of granitization that we have continents to live on.

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.

I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.

Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?

First, the formation of a route is necessary, before contact and correlation since no journey, no destination is possible without it.

Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality.

concluded from its surveys that in essence what you believe by the time you are thirteen is what you will die believing.

When we look at waves in the ocean, we see each one as independent in its formation and at the same time inseparable from the whole. There is no so such thing as a wave without the ocean. In the same way we are inseparable from each other and are connected to the whole body of life.

It took centuries to form the German order.

The formation of a herd is a significant victory and advance in the struggle against depression.

Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability, whereas exactly the contrary has taken place.

The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought, for one would thereby dispense with man himself.

When experimental psychology limits itself to rats and kittens, squabs and eyelids, philosophy of nature has little opportunity for formation. But when experimental psychology delivers over its findings concerning phenomenal manifestations of the mind, then the philosophy of nature may apply his philosophical principles.

The dynamic of revolutionary events is directly determined by swift, intense, and passionate changes in the psychology of classes which have already formed themselves before the revolution.