Quotes About Shaped

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.

I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.

A barrel of a man, who would have been bald, were it not for the last wisps of hair carefully shaped into a spun-sugar next, like a Michelin-starred dessert, over the sweaty pink dome of his scalp.

Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.

Online, the extent to which they can exploit freedom of speech is limited only by their own moral codes - which, as we have seen, have been shaped to fit the dominant moral framework of recent decades.

As a species, we tend to live in environments where our own artifacts dominate. The way we shape our environment and are in turn shaped by it is a key theme in my fiction - indeed, it's a key part of a great deal of science fiction.

The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.

Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay.

Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing guitar, I wanted to be a folk singer.

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.

Such persistence in memorizing fashionable jargon, wasted effort. I had been conditioned by my education, which had shaped my mind, my voice.

The human eye uses the eyebrow as an anchor point for the rest of the face. This is why a woman can look truly stunning without any makeup but perfectly shaped, full eyebrows.

The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened.

they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds—justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

What had shaped his vision of her? It had been the thoughts of the blood drinkers who had gathered around her council table.

Everything that happens to us, good and bad, leaves a lasting impression in our souls. You take one part of that out, and you can completely rewrite something crucial about us. By and large, we're not shaped by the big things. It's the little, day-to-day moments that make us who we are. Who we're going to be. (Nekoda to Nick)

Those lessons that I got along the way are the ones that have shaped my life for the last 20 years.

I would be annoyed if I were any more in tune with modern sensibilities. I was shaped differently. The world in which I grew up was Texan and Southern, and it had many, many failings. I think I've gotten rid of most of the bad things in myself from that earlier age, but I don't adjust to the way things are progressing now.

Mussolini would be a powerful example of how the events of 1917 shaped the future—and of the unexpected product of a failed and increasingly bankrupt Wilsonism.

We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism.

The instruments you have are the right instruments for you, because you've been shaped by them. That's another law.

into my pocket. We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped.

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.