Quotes About Form

Les corps des hommes ont des formes avares, internées.

When we converse, we act together toward a common end, and we act upon one another. Indeed, conversation is a form of activism - a political enterprise in the largest and oldest sense - a way of building sustaining community.

La frivolidad consiste en tener una tabla de valores invertida o desequilibrada en la que la forma importa más que el contenido, la apariencia más que la esencia y en la que el gesto y el desplante —la representación— hacen las veces de sentimientos e ideas.

Estas dos preocupaciones —aprovechamiento del tema común, cuidado obsesivo de la forma— eran indisociables en el autor de Madame Bovary. Extrañamente, los discípulos cercanos y remotos harán una división de ambas actitudes y tomarán partido por una en contra de la otra.

There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.

Form is emptiness, the Buddhists teach, but form is also form. I would never be able to approach the emptiness of form if I continued to deny myself the experience of it.

The beauty of truth is that it need not be proclaimed or believed. It skips from soul to soul, changing form each time it touches, but it is what it is, I have seen it, and someday you will, too.

HERE AT THE GOLDEN GATE IS THE ETERNAL RAINBOW THAT HE CONCEIVED AND SET TO FORM. A PROMISE INDEED THAT THE RACE OF MAN SHALL ENDURE INTO THE AGES. Like

You don't have to believe me. It's all right if you don't. The beauty of the truth is that it need not be proclaimed or believed. It skips from soul to soul, changing form each time it touches, but it is what it is, I have seen it, and someday you will, too." He

Structure is an art. In some ways, it's the only art.

Form follows function in the created world, so far as I know, and the creature that functions, however bizarre, survives to perpetuate its form.

Fischbein stood in front of Zouch with his hands on his hips. He had a grey face, full of folds and swellings of loose flesh, like a piece of bad realistic sculpture.

Dr Grantly is by no means a bad man; he is exactly the man which such an education as his was most likely to form; his intellect being sufficient for such a place in the world, but not sufficient to put him in advance of it.

Being cannot be one in form, though it may be in what it is made of. (Even some of the physicists hold it to be one in the latter way, though not in the former.) Man obviously differs from horse in form, and contraries from each other.

Learning and wonder are also usually pleasant. For wonder is a form of desire† and so the object of one's wonder is desirable, and learning is a form of restoring one's natural condition.*

My name. I have a name, and it's not Red Dragon. I am more than just the priestess's dragon. I am Eilrah, a man who wants you," he growled against her lips. "But you aren't a man. You only take this form when you feel like it," she replied coolly, turning her face aside.

It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight.

It is precisely the minor differences in people who are otherwise alike that form the basis of feelings of strangeness and hostility between them.

The monologue is her form of revenge. FLAUBERT

Politics always puts forward Ideas: Nation, Empire, Union, Economy, etc. But none of these forms has value in itself; it has it only insofar as it involves concrete individuals. If a nation can assert itself proudly only to the detriment of its members, if a union can be created only to the detriment of those it is trying to unite, the nation or the union must be rejected. We repudiate all idealisms, mysticisms, etcetera which prefer a Form to man himself.

There is a kind of orthodoxy in which the several loci of systematic theology, or stages of redemptive history, are all in place, but that lacks the life of the whole, just as arms, legs, torso, head, feet, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth may all be present—while the body as a whole lacks energy and perhaps life itself. The form of godliness is not the same as its power.

The Goa'uld use the pyramid form as landing platforms and to channel power through their ships.

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

I have come to see that an artist is not given a form - a style - but his nature merely gives him the ingredients wherewith to shape an equation of life.