Quotes and Sayings About Shapes
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.
-- A. R. Ammons -
There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
Last night I'd made love to a woman for the first and last time. It had been amazing and I had a memory that would shape the rest of my life.
-- Abbi Glines -
Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
-- Abraham Cowley -
I stand, limited primitive, sentimentalist, escapist The way I shape this landscape, automatically makes this, vivid I give it a rivet, hold it, stand at the pivot I love it, learn to live it, then give you my exhibit
-- Aceyalone -
Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
-- Adam Gopnik -
The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came.
-- Adoniram Judson -
Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them.
-- Aidan Chambers -
Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.
-- Al Jourgensen -
In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.
-- Alain Robert -
I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
-- Alan Alda -
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.
-- Alan Cumming -
It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point.
-- Alan Shepard -
To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate
-- Albert Camus -
A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.
-- Albert Camus -
Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.
-- Albert Einstein -
I love sunglasses, I have all shapes and colors.
-- Alessandra Ambrosio -
When I was in top shape I'd go to the ring and show my conditioning.
-- Alexis Arguello -
There was a time when everyone thought that Earth was flat. Did this unanimous consensus make any difference to the shape of Earth?
-- Ali Sina -
If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich...
-- Alice James -
I like that my body is in shape and toned, and isn't too muscular. I feel I still have a woman's physique.
-- Alicia Sacramone -
Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing, poking you until you've changed into that very simple shape.
-- Allan Gurganus -
You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.
-- Allen Johnson -
So briefly do we raise our heads, so quick sink back. For a moment we are lifted by a wave of time, are tossed up into the sunlight of consciousness We cannot see so far as where this wave began, but maybe we have waited some thousand years for it to come, and now it is on us. This is our moment, the wave is breaking. The crest which passes through us now in tumult was shaped by the past, and we in this moment are able to shape the crest which is to come.
-- Allen Wheelis