Shapes Quotes - Page 2

• Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as one sets forth to meet.... The path also disappears as I think of it, as I say it.

  Octavio Paz

  Memories, Eye, Thinking

  Octavio Paz (1981). “The Monkey Grammarian”, p.4, Arcade Publishing

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• I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist.

  Haruki Murakami

  Different, World, Size

  "The Folklore of Our Times". www.newyorker.com. June 9, 2003.

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• I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Flower, Thinking, Ideas

  Georgia O'Keeffe (1977). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Viking Pr

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• It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Denmark In Hamlet, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 10

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• I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.

  Diane di Prima

  Truth, Thinking, Two

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• You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Spiritual

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

  John Ortberg

  Doe, Way

  John Ortberg (2001). “If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

  Drew Barrymore

  Acceptance, Your Beautiful, Being Beautiful

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• If anybody can find someone to love them and to help them through this difficult thing that we call life, I support that in any shape or form.

  Will Smith

  Gay, Support, Marriage Equality

  "Will Smith backs Obama's gay marriage stance". www.yahoo.com. May 14, 2012.

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• When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.

  Tom Hanks

  Jobs, Years, Shopping

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• Decisions, they shape our destiny.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Destiny, Decision, Our Destiny

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.20, Penguin

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• No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes.

  David Hockney

  Matter, Canvas, Illusion

  David Hockney (1977). “David Hockney”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.

  Dean Norris

  Men, Personality, Gone

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. October 6, 2011.

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• True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Life, Sports, Hero

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• I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but I have almost always found that children are a great deal more reliable in telling us what actually goes on in public school than many of the adult experts who develop policies that shape their destinies.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, School, Destiny

  Jonathan Kozol (2005). “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America”, p.12, Broadway Books

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• The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

  Italo Calvino

  Cities, Ends, Form

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• It is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the material atoms out of whose intricate relationships that mind is built are altogether trivial.

  Isaac Asimov

  Differences, Mind, Atoms

  "The Beginning and the End". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1977.

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• So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical.

  William Shakespeare

  Fancy, Twelfth Night Important

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.

  William Stafford

  Ocean, Sea, Pebbles

  William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon (1998). “Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Destiny, Men, Brave

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• The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and forms I might choose for them. My love is fluid, flexible, committed, creative. My love allows people and events to unfold as they need. My love is not controlling. It does not dictate or demand. My love allows those I love the freedom to assume the forms most true to them. I release all those I love from my preconceptions of their path. I allow them the dignity of self-definition while I offer them a constant love that is every variable in shape.

  Julia Cameron

  Love, Life, Acceptance

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• The choices of one shape the futures of all.

  Timothy Zahn

  Choices

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• Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture.

  Robert Henri

  Echoes, Looks, Sometimes

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

  Paul Cezanne

  Mean, Drawing, Giving

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