Shapes Quotes - Page 33

• God gives the exact experiences he wants them to have in order to shape the specific destiny he designed for them.

  Steven Furtick

  Destiny, Order, Giving

  Steven Furtick (2010). “Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible”, p.21, Multnomah

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• The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mistake, Forever, Matter

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.184, Penguin

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• Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Men, Thinking, Understanding

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “The Home and the World”, p.42, Rabindranath Tagore

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• Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.

  Neil Gaiman

  Long, People, Monsters

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• The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mistake, Forever, Choices

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.184, Penguin

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• [Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.

  Wallace Stegner

  Blood, Law, Together

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.96, Modern Library

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• If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And do it the best you know how. Be cognizant and sympathetic to the guy alongside, because he wants a place in the sun, too. And always...always look past his color, his creed, his religion and the shape of his ears. Look for the whole person. Judge him as the whole person.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Pride, Past

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• It always struck Fire, the physical affection between these siblings, who as often as not were at each other's throats over one thing or another. She liked the way the four of them shifted and changed shape, bumping and clanging against one another, sharpening each other's edges and then smoothing them down again, and somehow always finding the way to fit together.

  Kristin Cashore

  Sibling, Fire, Together

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of phosphorescence, as though a firework had discharged behind her eyes, and it was over. She felt quiet and warm. For the first conscious moment of her life, her mind was free from wonder, free from worry, free from work or puzzlement. Then, from the middle of that marvelous furred stillness, a thought took shape, took hold, took over. I shall have to do this again.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Eye, Names, Worry

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.93, A&C Black

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• So, your saying choices and destiny shape the course of our lives? "I think so, yes. It's just easier to blame fate for all of the mistakes.

  Gena Showalter

  Mistake, Fate, Destiny

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Craving”, p.132, HQN Books

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• Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

  Agatha Christie

  Coming Out

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie: Five Complete Murder Mysteries”, Avenel

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• Come on,"he said, gesturing toward the exit. "let's take a walk." "Where?" "It doesn't matter. We just need you calmed down or you'll be in no shape to fight." "Yeah? Are you afraid of my possibly insane dark side coming out?" "No, I'm afraid of your normal Rose Hathaway side coming out, the one that isn't afraid to jump in without thinking when she believes something is right." I gave him a dry look. "Is there are a difference?" "Yes. The second one scares me.

  Richelle Mead

  Believe, Fighting, Dark

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.205, Penguin

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• 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

  Men, Reason Why, Given

  A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.117, Hachette UK

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• He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would be more clear-edged, more defined, more finite. Instead they seem like weather, like clouds constantly re-forming into new shapes, blown by nameless, unidentifiable winds.

  Julian Barnes

  Grief, Clouds, Wind

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• A rune, hovering like an angel: a shape like two wings joined by a single bar.

  Cassandra Clare

  Angel, Wings, Two

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Heavenly Fire”, p.447, Simon and Schuster

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• Wretched unfair, it is,” he remarked. “Of the three of us, I’m the one who’s always collected the rare and unusual, yet you two managed to snag the world’s most unusual women. First you, Crispin, with the only living half-breed, who then turned into an even more unusual vampire. And now you, Charles, have bagged a shape-shifter. Thought you were joking when you said Denise was the kitty. I’m simply green with jealousy

  Jeaniene Frost

  Two, Vampire, Three

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• as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is.

  Charles Bukowski

  Beautiful, Fighting, Promise

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.

  Federico Fellini

  Positive, Attitude, Expectations

  Federico Fellini, Charolette Chandler (2001). “I, Fellini”, p.146, Cooper Square Press

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• In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

  George Eliot

  Time, Men, Ties

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.104, Penguin

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• Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

  DR. LAURENCE J. PETER (1972). “THE PETER PRESCRIPTION HOW TO MAKE THINGS GO RIGHT”

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• I love crystals, the beauty of their forms and formation; liquids, dormant, distilling, sloshing! The fumes, the odors good or bad, the rainbow of colors; the gleaming vessels of every size, shape and purpose.

  Robert Burns Woodward

  Science, Color, Rainbow

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• I've never felt a push to be stick thin. I work out and eat healthy, so mostly it's about being in shape and having energy.

  Lauren Conrad

  Women, Self Esteem, Work Out

  "Lauren Conrad Talks to Glamour: "My Friends Are Everything". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. April 1, 2010.

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• Everyone has the heartbreak that shapes them in a way that they could never go back to the innocence that they had before.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Life, Heart, Way

  "Exquisitely talented Zooey Deschanel in '500 days of summer'". PhilStar Interview, www.philstar.com. October 15, 2009.

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• The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Family, Attitude, Children

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966".

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• Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

  Alvin Toffler

  Future, Responsibility, Destiny

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