Quotes About Shape

Todo el mundo tiene la fortuna entre las manos, como un escultor que maneja el material que transformará en una figura... Es necesario aprender y cultivar atentamente la habilidad para moldear el material y darle la forma que queramos.

Tawney added an additional twist by suggesting that 'nascent capitalism . . . [shaped] Calvinism's attitude to enterprise and the accumulation of wealth, not vice versa'.

Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home and come to understand our own nature as spiritual beings.

A line only gets grace when it curves, you know.

they talked, too, of their futures, as if they could shape the glittering course of their destinies with secret confessions offered like prayers to the room's benevolent hush.

Yes, seasons, criticisms, and events can refine you—they have the potential to shape the mettle of your life, but they are not the substance of your life . . . God is.

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

There's a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins to dance.

It's a power that I can't explain. As it flows and it grows and it shapes my faith. There've been hundreds of moments I can't deny. When it brushe against the fire or dwelt in the Fire of God.

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

Take six cubes and arrange them into the shape of a crucifix. Take two more cubes and stick them on either side of the crucifix, at the point where the cross is made. Now you have a tesseract. A tesseract is a three-dimensional object — a hypercube — unraveled.

she shapes her surface lights into the shape of breasts.

with the colors of the dawn still in the sky, when right smack-dab in the center of my field of vision I noticed this cloud in the perfect shape of an angel with her wings arched across the sky.

Though rules may shape your story, you yourself must shape the rules. Beware, too, of the other man's rule. He sees the world through different eyes. Thus, George Abercroft is an action writer. "Start with a fight!" is his motto. And for him, it works.

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.

Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.

Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.

I couldn't be anything. I could barely manage to hold out my shape in the world.

And thought shaped everything, though not as it wanted but as it must, though what it must was what it wanted, though as it went where it wanted it went where it must go.

Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.

Where d'you get the knife?" He wished he had one. "He gave it to me." There was a crumpled shape in the shadows by the wall, the matting all around soaked with dark blood. "This way.

Each letter feels like a page in a book that he won't fully understand until he reaches the end. It feels imperative - in a way nothing else in his life has - that he read every word. The attention he brings to the letters seems to be changing him; Edward can feel strands inside himself gathering, trying to find a shape in which he will be able to meet the eyes of the people in the photographs.

she liked to understand the whole arc of a story, especially when it came in the shape of a six-foot-seven man her beloved sister had brought into their family.