Quotes About Shaped

The rest of your life is being shaped right now by the dreams you have, the choices you make, and the person you decide to be.

Pleasure and pain are immediate; knowledge, retrospective. A steel ball, suspended on a string, smacks into its brothers and nothing happens: no shock of recognition, no sudden epiphany. We go about our business, buttering the toast, choosing gray socks over brown. But here's the thing: just because we haven't understood something doesn't mean we haven't been shaped by it.

What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored.

God is beautiful. His beauty demands a response that is shaped that beauty, and that is art.

For such an important task, we need to have our thoughts and attitudes and our dreams and desires shaped by Scripture.

U.S. policy is too often shaped by the desire to tamp down that violence as fast as possible, rather than fostering the kind of deep-seated, long-term changes that would kill its roots.

An opinion is not a momentary thing but a process of thinking, shaped by the continuous acquisition of knowledge and the activity of questioning, discussion, and debate.

God is Change, and in the end, God prevails. But God exists to be shaped.

a speech is shaped, ultimately, by the overwhelming desire that nothing bad happen, then nothing good will happen either. The speech will sound mealy-mouthed and nervous.

What these thinkers, chroniclers, and interpreters have written about, how they have theorized their scholarly endeavors, and their approaches and methodologies have inevitably been informed and shaped by the times in which they existed.