Quotes About Form

We'll meet you here. Hopefully everyone will be in human form. A wry smile. Though I'll warn you, he's not a whole lot more pleasant that way. At least as a wolf, he can't talk.

I didn't know what my tormenters wanted from me, but apparently "screaming like a girl" wasn't it, because they ramped it up to a form of torture seen only in sci-fi movies.

So these Nondual traditions do not necessarily abandon emotions, or thoughts, or desires, or inclinations. The task is simply to see the Emptiness of all Form, not to actually get rid of all Form. And so Forms continue to arise, and you learn to surf.

(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.

The objective laws of form and color help to strengthen a person's powers and to expand his creative gift.

Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion. . .

Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.

What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

everything made by man's hands has a form, which must be either beautiful or ugly; beautiful if it is in accord with Nature, and helps her; ugly if it is discordant with Nature, and thwarts her; it cannot be indifferent...

That sir which serves and seeks for gain,And follows but for form,Will pack when it begins to rain,And leave thee in the storm.

To hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.

See, what a grace was seated on this brow;Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself,An eye like Mars, to threaten and command,A station like the herald MercuryNew-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill,A combination and a form indeed,Where every god did seem to set his seal,To give the world assurance of a man.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

The glass of fashion and the mould of form,The observ'd of all observers!

Then, as now, neatness in dress and form, with a strict conformity to the rules, were the qualifications required for office, and I suppose I was found not to excel in any of these.

We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.

We shape our buildings and they shape us.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

La muerte toma siempre la forma de la alcoba que nos contiene.

The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness.

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

I'm drawn to literature instead as a form of thinking