Quotes About Form

The former East Germany hardly had a monopoly on complicity. Life's every moment caught one out in one form or another.

All men did have darkness. Some wore it in the form of horns. Some bore it invisibly as rot in their souls.

This distinction between form and experience is not pedantic, but fundamental: a form can express the Transcendent, an experience cannot. A form can express the common ground in which all things share. An experience can only express one man's reaction to that common ground.

El estilo trascendental no es una experiencia, sino una forma. El estilo trascendental no pretende hacer que el espectador comparta las lágrimas de Hirayama; lo que intenta es purgar esas lágrimas e integrarlas en una forma más extensa.

The basic error of fundamentalism is that it overlooks the contribution of the receptive side in the revelatory situation and consequently identifies one individual and conditioned form of receiving the divine with the divine itself.

Shrugging your shoulder and/or letting it move forward will destroy your shoulder and your power alike—whether you are punching, benching, or doing pushups.

A typical mistake is setting the kettlebell down sloppily, with a rounded back and the weight on the toes, following a hard (and often perfect) set of swings or snatches. Don't! Mentally stay with the set until the kettlebell is safely parked. Lower the kettlebell in a way you would if you were planning to do another rep. Then let go, and only then relax.

The power of language. Preserving the ephemeral; giving form to dreams, permanence to sparks of sunlight.

The cosmos is the ordering of number. Perception is the imaging of form contained in the potential of number. Robert Lawlor

I don't think meaning exists without form, and certainly form does not exist without meaning. Meaning and story come first. Story is the most important part of fiction. Without it, what's the point? If all you care about is form, become a critic.

Spirit of Beauty, that dost consecrateWith thine own hues all thou dost shine uponOf human thought or form.

There was a Being whom my spirit oft Met on its visioned wanderings far aloft. A seraph of Heaven, too gentle to be human, Veiling beneath that radiant form of woman....

Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity. - Epipsychidion

So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful

It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:

The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.

Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.

(The cherubim appeared to have the form of human hands under their wings.)

And the Father who sent Me has Himself testified about Me. You have never heard His voice nor seen His form,

When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices in the Lycaonian language: “The gods have come down to us in human form!”

For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.