Quotes About Shape

Our destiny is fated not only by great powers beyond our beckoning horizon but by the very way we shape and hold the everyday conversations of a familiar life.

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some ..." Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.

His shadow makes the shape of grief as he hurtles toward the earth.

You can tell about people by their absences. By the shape of the emptiness they leave behind.

Our own individual life history is also shaped that way. In large part, when you factor out fate, what we are is because of what we believe about ourselves. Wherever we are in the world, we mostly live in the small space between our ears.

Realize that God uses the fires of life to purify your faith, to shape you into Christ's image, and to cause you to love Him…even more!

Life, using matter to express itself in bodily shape, first traces a geometrical pattern. From the lowest form in crystals, upwards to more complicated patterns in the higher organisations—there is always first this geometrical pattern as skeleton.

the same dizziness the same life like a metal beam whacks me on the head again as when a man slinks home after battle alive alive and nobody else was that lucky who is it trapped in this living shape pushing the door with his hands still covered in blood

The secret shape of this book is a parachute all the lines leading to the person hanging there drifting on the wind and always falling waiting for the mists to clear

Our moral responsibility is not to stop the future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

Since the Gothic, European sculpture has become overgrown with moss, weeds - all sorts of surface excrescences which completely concealed shape. It has been Brancusi's special mission to get rid of this overgrowth and to make us once more shape-conscious.

I'm poised to take any opportunity, I'm poised to keep myself in tip-top shape because that's what I love to do.

I understand a lot of celebrities lose weight because they have the opportunity to get in shape and become healthier, but when you get so polished, you can't tell the story of a blue-collar family anymore.

The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.

When I was in Portugal I hardly played six-or-seven matches. Although I would train daily to keep my shape. Even then it was really difficult when I came back to get in shape and represent my country.

Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.

I've been a runner a long time. When I first got into it, I started doing small triathlons in Chicago, and I just did it to get in shape. When I got out of college, I put on a few pounds like everybody does. I did it when I was in my early 20s, but I never really did any long runs.

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

As a consultant at McKinsey, I learned the value of data and the ability to shape that information into an answer.

Astronomers still can't decide what the shape of our universe is. Is it closed and finite, which is to say, is there a countable tally of all the galaxies that exist, even beyond the ones we can see? Or is it infinite? The latter possibility is still on the table.

At Chelsea, there's more focus on team shape, a lot of work on tactics.