Quotes about Formed

Our Futures are Formed by the Thoughts we Hold Most Often. Votes: 3

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. Votes: 2

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock. Votes: 2

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. Votes: 2

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. Votes: 2

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. Votes: 2

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history. Votes: 2

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. Votes: 2

Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them. Votes: 2

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy. Votes: 2

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe. Votes: 2

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character. Votes: 2

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part. Votes: 2

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. Votes: 2

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. Votes: 2

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. Votes: 2

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious. Votes: 2

You don't tell people who disagree with you they'd be better off somewhere else. And you don't reduce them to stereotypes; you address them as fully formed people worthy of respect. You try to persuade them. Votes: 2

In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a committee for the purpose of watching the movements of the British soldiers, and gaining every intelligence of the movements of the Tories. Votes: 2

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations. Votes: 2

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. Votes: 2

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation. Votes: 2

Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well. Votes: 2

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed. Votes: 2

I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi. Votes: 2

People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked during his first term is to make people feel like he's grasping their hand, whether it's by tweeting or email, moments after an event, sometimes during an event. It makes people relate to him. Votes: 2

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures. Votes: 2

Nature formed me fierce ... Votes: 0

Man was formed for society. Votes: 0

People cultivate these fully formed personalities. Votes: 0

The Kennedys formed a Kennedy party. Votes: 0

We are formed by what we desire Votes: 0

Men are born, and then they're formed. Votes: 0

No weapon formed against me shall prosper Votes: 0

Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. Votes: 0

Generational bonds are easily formed and rarely broken. Votes: 0

Conspiracies no sooner should be formed Than executed. Votes: 0

Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood. Votes: 0

Being formed into a nation takes some doing. Votes: 0

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life. Votes: 0

The FDA has formed a rapid response team. Votes: 0

The faith I was born into formed me. Votes: 0

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom. Votes: 0

Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978. Votes: 0

When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky. Votes: 0

Your style is formed by what you can't do. Votes: 0

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. Votes: 0

Man is a social animal formed to please in society. Votes: 0

There are more lines formed than things worth waiting for. Votes: 0

They were two halves that together formed a magical whole. Votes: 0

With constant repetition and reinforcement, new habits are easily formed. Votes: 0

The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core. Votes: 0

It is through suppression that hells are formed in us. Votes: 0

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power. Votes: 0

Vessels expose the invisible Zeitgeist, the visible formed by the invisible. Votes: 0

I heard that Commentary and Dissent had merged and formed Dysenery. Votes: 0

Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident. Votes: 0

Character is formed out of those small decisions taken for granted Votes: 0

It was not Soviet people who formed the American Communist Party. Votes: 0

The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion. Votes: 0

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity. Votes: 0

The purest water is formed by flowing through the muddiest mountains Votes: 0

He spoke so slowly, cobwebs could have formed between his words. Votes: 0

Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years. Votes: 0

Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater. Votes: 0

You are a world unto yourself just waiting to be formed. Votes: 0

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful. Votes: 0

It has been 20,000 years since man and dog formed their partnership. Votes: 0

How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude! Votes: 0

Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth. Votes: 0

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed. Votes: 0

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed. Votes: 0

Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced. Votes: 0

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class. Votes: 0

When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable. Votes: 0

Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd. Votes: 0

The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form. Votes: 0

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations. Votes: 0

Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed. Votes: 0

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places Ive been. Votes: 0

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places I've been. Votes: 0

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die. Votes: 0

Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character. Votes: 0

Real character is formed in the midst of the battles of the soul. Votes: 0

I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there. Votes: 0

Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement. Votes: 0

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world’s torrent. Votes: 0

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them. Votes: 0

Lies can be formed from truth, but truth cannot be formed from lies. Votes: 0

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing. Votes: 0

Lies can be formed from truths, but truths cannot be formed from lies. Votes: 0

Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design. Votes: 0

The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God. Votes: 0

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness. Votes: 0

It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding. Votes: 0

An eye critically nice can only be formed by observing well-colored pictures with attention. Votes: 0

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar? Votes: 0

Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length. Votes: 0

Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do. Votes: 0

I'd rather be this walking metamorphosis than having that old formed opinion about everything. Votes: 0

It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened. Votes: 0

There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together Votes: 0

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous. Votes: 0

Your brain is not formed when you're born, you have to build your brain. Votes: 0

To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career. Votes: 0

I have a lot of ideas that I feel are half-formed, or half-way okay. Votes: 0

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without. Votes: 0

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness. Votes: 0

Habit-forming products often start as nice-to-haves, but once the habit is formed, they become must-haves. Votes: 0

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived. Votes: 0

Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character. Votes: 0

And the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright. Votes: 0

It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it. Votes: 0

On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia. Votes: 0

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored. Votes: 0

Most of Ayn Rand's major characters are already formed at the start of the stories. Votes: 0

A true champion is not only formed in victory. To be defeated makes you learn. Votes: 0

We formed the fellowship of the ring when we should've all just gone on medication Votes: 0

No weapon formed against you will prosper. But make no mistake, the weapon will be formed. Votes: 0

Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Votes: 0

None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been. Votes: 0

The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed. Votes: 0

But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin. Votes: 0

Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her. Votes: 0

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed. Votes: 0

The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed. Votes: 0

Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing. Votes: 0

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers. Votes: 0

Our relationships with people are formed by small moments - and relationships are crucial in business. Votes: 0

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. Votes: 0

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning. Votes: 0

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed. Votes: 0

Out of many things a great heap will be formed. [Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.] Votes: 0

I personally adore origin stories - they're so intriguing, learning what shaped and formed a character. Votes: 0

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person. Votes: 0

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band Votes: 0

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second. Votes: 0

What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron? Votes: 0

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure. Votes: 0

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established. Votes: 0

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books. Votes: 0

How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed...connection? Votes: 0

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us. Votes: 0

It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish. Votes: 0

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking. Votes: 0

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from. Votes: 0

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera. Votes: 0

Stop living worried & discouraged. You have a Protector, Deliverer & Dream-Giver. No weapon formed against you can prosper. Votes: 0

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows. Votes: 0

Not all friendships take a long time to grow and deepen. Some are formed in an instant. Votes: 0

The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life. Votes: 0

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire. Votes: 0

You don't become a fully-formed human as a female, or even a male, until you're at least 30. Votes: 0

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it. Votes: 0

A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment. Votes: 0

Introverts process information internally, and we don't like to express our thoughts until they are fully formed. Votes: 0

These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed. Votes: 0

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature. Votes: 0

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data. Votes: 0

But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed Votes: 0

Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance. Votes: 0

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. Votes: 0

Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie! Votes: 0

I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed. Votes: 0

Taking all vegetable-eating nations together . . . they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters. Votes: 0

When Bill Morgan and I formed Kinder Morgan in February of 1997, it had about $300 million in enterprise value. Votes: 0

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves. Votes: 0

None of us just pop into the world fully formed, so it's the little facts that make us. Votes: 0

In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee. Votes: 0

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude. Votes: 0

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are. Votes: 0

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve. Votes: 0

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower. Votes: 0

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart. Votes: 0

Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does. Votes: 0

A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms. Votes: 0

If you have formed a circle to go into,Go into it yourself and see how you would do. Votes: 0

[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one. Votes: 0

Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge. Votes: 0

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it. Votes: 0

I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them. Votes: 0

The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature. Votes: 0

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows. Votes: 0

I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction. Votes: 0

The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha. Votes: 0

The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world. Votes: 0

The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society Votes: 0

There are two choices available in duality - one side or the other side. Everyting is formed from that. Votes: 0

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. Votes: 0

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed. Votes: 0

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression. Votes: 0

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression. Votes: 0

You might say that you've finally earned the wisdom.Actually, it's the wisdom that has found and formed you. Votes: 0

But I don't know. Pee-wee just kind of popped out one day, pretty much fully fleshed-out and fully formed. Votes: 0

When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough. Votes: 0

By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained. Votes: 0

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. Votes: 0

The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down. Votes: 0

Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it. Votes: 0

But, in my opinion, if I am not formed for love, it follows that I am not formed for marriage. Votes: 0

Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright. Votes: 0

What has interested me all along is not the pronouncement of meaning but pointing toward the way meaning is formed. Votes: 0

Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay? Votes: 0

In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe. Votes: 0

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time. Votes: 0

On the correctly formed pubescent girl, a Speedo looked wonderful. When it was wet, it was an incitement to riot. Votes: 0

The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with. Votes: 0

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. Votes: 0

I've never had a writer, and I'm proud of that. Everything I've per­formed has been from my own head. Votes: 0

Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music. Votes: 0

Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain. Votes: 0

The sons of Adam are formed from dust; if not humble as the dust, they fall short of being men. Votes: 0

In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master. Votes: 0

If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States. Votes: 0

It is sometimes easier to form a party than to attain by degrees the head of a party already formed. Votes: 0

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so. Votes: 0

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again. Votes: 0

The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around. Votes: 0

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures. Votes: 0

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures. Votes: 0

It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous facts. Votes: 0

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good. Votes: 0

The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion. Votes: 0

I formed a band when I was about 13, and we all listened to punk - or what we thought was punk! Votes: 0

I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote. Votes: 0

Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence. Votes: 0

The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me. Votes: 0

The Word of God conceived in the heart, formed by the tongue, and spoken out of the mouth is creative power. Votes: 0

Dinah Shore? Wonderful woman. Dinah formed a foundation to locate missing senior citizens by putting their pictures on prune juice bottles. Votes: 0

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Votes: 0

I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula. Votes: 0

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other. Votes: 0

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. Votes: 0

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters. Votes: 0

The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life. Votes: 0

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. Votes: 0

Without harmony in the State, no military expedition can be undertaken; without harmony in the army, no battle array can be formed. Votes: 0

The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids. Votes: 0

I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments. Votes: 0

Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress. Votes: 0

In this way, through experience they will be formed adequately, will be encouraged, and will be capable of rendering service to God. Votes: 0

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree Votes: 0

Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding. Votes: 0

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. Votes: 0

Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God. Votes: 0

Acting careers dont come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all. Votes: 0

For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times. Votes: 0

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety. Votes: 0

Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed. Votes: 0

The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by. Votes: 0

Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology. Votes: 0

Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections. Votes: 0

This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs. Votes: 0

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. Votes: 0

The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation. Votes: 0

The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide. Votes: 0

What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share. Votes: 0

We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God's purposes by ourselves. Votes: 0

The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable. Votes: 0

The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers. Votes: 0

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead. Votes: 0

It formed into small drops on his weather beaten features, drops that rolled down his cheeks. Strangely, some of them tasted like salt. Votes: 0

An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness. Votes: 0

I miss her like 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, and 5 misses 8. When we made love, our two bodies formed one spiral that seemed to cycle to the sky. Votes: 0

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Votes: 0

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality. Votes: 0

Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility. Votes: 0

We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far. Votes: 0

... I bid farewell to my readers in the hope that they have formed their own opinion as to the meaning of the word "combination". Votes: 0

I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding. Votes: 0

I do not own a single security anywhere that doesn't pay a dividend, and I formed a mutual-fund company with that very simple philosophy. Votes: 0

Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed. Votes: 0

Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote. Votes: 0

When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit. Votes: 0

I formed a band called Atomic Rooster. The Atomic Rooster was sort of an underground cult band, sort of psychedelic. We did very well. Votes: 0

The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office. Votes: 0

I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed. Votes: 0

A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. Votes: 0

There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind. Votes: 0

Like Adam, formed from clay, children are formed from the biological material of which they are made or by the hands of their parents. Votes: 0

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible. Votes: 0

His small compliments and offhand remarks formed a new scripture, and in breathless conversations and lonely, dream-drunk nights they built whole theologies from them. Votes: 0

I'm the fifth generation of Seventh Day Adventists and the youngest of four brothers. When I was still very small, we formed a gospel quartet. Votes: 0

The seeds of genius are in many blogs, but bloggers lack the interest in or understanding of the difference between blogging and fully-formed literary efforts. Votes: 0

The Amorites founded Jerusalem, they formed the Nordic weft in later Galilee, that is, in the "pagan region" whence some day Jesus was to come. Votes: 0

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence. Votes: 0

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life. Votes: 0

We formed in 1993 to make it clear that we don't take our marching orders from anyone overseas, we have no connection to the Muslim Brotherhood. Votes: 0

Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them. Votes: 0

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory. Votes: 0

We do not need committees but we need commitment. The nation is already reeling under the burden of several committees formed in the last decade. Votes: 0

The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy) Votes: 0

It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one. Votes: 0

While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the frontiers of freedom. Votes: 0

By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve. Votes: 0

I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you. Votes: 0

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. Votes: 0

The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'... Votes: 0

If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians. Votes: 0

In the Quran it is said that from the tears shed by this great angel [Michael] over the sins of the faithful, cherubim are formed. Votes: 0

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives. Votes: 0

The idea I'd been toying with fully formed in my mind. "I'm plotting." "oh?" His mouth curved in a wicked grin. "Do Tell." Chapter 5 pg. 50 Votes: 0

There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are lost in it. Votes: 0

When I was younger and bands were formed that way, out of friendships rather than anything else. It wasn't like we put up want ads. Votes: 0

You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life. Votes: 0

There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding. Votes: 0

Your present negative beliefs were formed by thought PLUS feelings. Generate enough emotion, or deep feeling and your new thoughts and ideas will cancel them out. Votes: 0

Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand as beauty. Votes: 0

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time. Votes: 0

The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood. Votes: 0

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance. Votes: 0

People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt. Votes: 0

It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of historical capitalism, institutional racism. Votes: 0

He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time Votes: 0

Be patient. Life can seem pretty gray while those beautiful wings of yours are being formed. All in due time, dear one. All in due time. Votes: 0

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training. Votes: 0

You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. Votes: 0

Om was there in the existence, when no religion was formed or founded. It will be there in the existence, if all the religions are demolished. Votes: 0

Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life. Votes: 0

The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed. Votes: 0

Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee. Votes: 0

Supramolecular chemistry is the chemistry of the intermolecular bond, covering the structures and functions of the entities formed by association of two or more chemical species. Votes: 0

Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon. Votes: 0

Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear. Votes: 0

Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed. Votes: 0

Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility. Votes: 0

Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs. Votes: 0

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists. Votes: 0

Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain. Votes: 0

The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing from the Bessemer converter. Votes: 0

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. Votes: 0

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates. Votes: 0

When I'm in the second attention, when I stop looking through eyes that have been formed for me by others, I see something else. I see power. Votes: 0

Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way. Votes: 0

Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast trained it to a post. Votes: 0

We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through a process of regular elections. Votes: 0

The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee. Votes: 0

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world. Votes: 0

I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright. Votes: 0

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be. Votes: 0

It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed. Votes: 0

Nature learns and changes as a result of stimuli, and certain habitats of nature will be formed that weren't there before. That's how I look at reality. Votes: 0

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics. Votes: 0

What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?" Votes: 0

Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness. Votes: 0

I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo. Votes: 0

In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me. Votes: 0

Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature. Votes: 0

Aphorisms are food for thought - like sushi, they come in small portions that are both delicious and exquisitely formed. And, like sushi, I can never get enough. Votes: 0

As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of the military and soldiers has risen. Votes: 0

Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. Votes: 0

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle. Votes: 0

Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth. Votes: 0

The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life. Votes: 0

Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Votes: 0

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance. Votes: 0

Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. Votes: 0

Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single generation, spanning the years from 1960 to 1995. Votes: 0

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand. Votes: 0

Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love. Votes: 0

These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point / Brought together in paper and mineral ink Votes: 0

Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values. Votes: 0

The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting as sovereign and independent communities. Votes: 0

A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder. And any fine distinction as to its being completely formed or unformed is not admissible amongst us. Votes: 0

Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world. Votes: 0

Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work... Votes: 0

We need wilderness preserved-as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds-because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed, Votes: 0

When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was a bandleader for my brother's band. Votes: 0

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking. Votes: 0

We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to be formed as preachers. Votes: 0

I have never seen such a perfectly formed animal. Beautiful and graceful like a gazelle, he burned hot and wild with the deserts of Egypt in his soul. Votes: 0

A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit of their own society. Votes: 0

Know yourself and you will win all battles. Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain. Votes: 0

The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a Whig by nature. Votes: 0

As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. Votes: 0

One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand. Votes: 0

It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be a very bad explainer Votes: 0

We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet. Votes: 0

Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it. Votes: 0

I searched my mind for the right visualization. I knew it had to start with what I put in my head. That is where all my accomplishments are formed. Votes: 0

A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him. Votes: 0

The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute. Votes: 0

I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general. Votes: 0

ACID Kreationz was founded in 2008. I formed this business with the purpose of paying my university tuition because my teaching salary would not be able to cover school payments. Votes: 0

Through knowledge we behold the world's creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature's cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass. Votes: 0

A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man. Votes: 0

Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell. Votes: 0

Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as it first formed for me. Votes: 0

There is one universal law that has been formed, or at least adoptedby the majority of mankind. That law is justice. Justice forms the cornerstone of each nation's law. Votes: 0

Don't wait for perfect. Don't wait for something to be fully formed in your head to start on it. Just start, and then work it out as you go. Votes: 0

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature. Votes: 0

That is our vocation: to convert the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced. Votes: 0

I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking. Votes: 0

A close girlfriend of mine and I have been writing and playing together for years and decided to make it official, so we formed a band called 'Everly.' Votes: 0

I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam. Votes: 0

Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way. Votes: 0

When these suckers had formed roots in the open ground, or kind of nursery where they were planted, they were looked over and the best taken up for potting. Votes: 0

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece. Votes: 0

I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent. Votes: 0

Authentic power is the energy that Is formed by the intentions of the Soul. It is the light shaped by the intentions of love and compassion guided by wisdom Votes: 0

One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed. Votes: 0

When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins. Votes: 0

Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of all the habits formed by civilized man. Votes: 0

I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife. Votes: 0

Some fans understand who I am and why I do things, and then there are some fans that have formed an opinion that I don't feel is who I am. Votes: 0

It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty. Votes: 0

Haiti was a French colony, but in 1804, the slaves rose up and defeated the French and formed the Republic. For the last 200 years, Haiti has had a very unfortunate history. Votes: 0

Here is something good to remember. You were formed by God to become a beacon of light that shines brightly within the darkness of this world. You have a purpose! Votes: 0

That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living. Votes: 0

The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Votes: 0

It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty. Votes: 0

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life. Votes: 0

The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a subject from all its aspects has been made. Votes: 0

How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success. It's treasures are priceless - but they can be stolen. Votes: 0

It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they principally regret the want of occupation. Votes: 0

In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time. Votes: 0

Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.' Votes: 0

Many of the most important and life-changing moments of my life occurred when I was a young man. The lessons I learned then formed my character and shaped my destiny. Votes: 0

Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today. Votes: 0

I am fascinated by women. They're as close as we men get to experiencing 'the other.' The challenge for me was to know and accept fully formed, powerful women. Votes: 0

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind. Votes: 0

I believe we could see a North American Union formed. Why else are our borders with Mexico and Canada being left wide open some six years into a War on Terror? Votes: 0

Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity. Votes: 0

I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions. Votes: 0

When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before. Votes: 0

It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities in the illuminating light of your own mission than to have your activities formed by the impressions and expectations of others. Votes: 0

God truly is our Father, the Father of the spirits of all mankind. We are his literal offspring and are formed in his image. We have inherited divine characteristics from him. Votes: 0

When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man. Votes: 0

Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish. Votes: 0

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom. Votes: 0

A person's current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in. Votes: 0

I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions. Votes: 0

When you look at Venus and the Earth, they formed at about the same place in the solar system. They're made of about the same materials; they're about the same size. Votes: 0

If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life. Votes: 0

We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by the stories we learn to live in. Votes: 0

Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved. Votes: 0

Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent." "Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But...she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to. Votes: 0

NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it was done in time from the presidency of Grover Cleveland. Votes: 0

Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details? Votes: 0

In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration. Votes: 0

There is at least one truth to every myth, and it takes one truth to create a lie. Lies can be formed from Truth; however, Truth cannot be formed from lies. Votes: 0

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history. Votes: 0

Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them. Votes: 0

There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. Votes: 0

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. Votes: 0

I will tell you the story of how we found ourselves in a realm where dreams are formed, destiny is chosen, and magic is as real as a handprint in the snow. Votes: 0

The group of writers I had grown up with in the '60s - Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul Muldoon - formed a very necessary and self-sustaining group. Votes: 0

We don't want to just tell [students] who the people are, we don't want to just tell them what happened - we want to show the process by which it formed itself. Votes: 0

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.] Votes: 0

A mind, once formed, is never suited after, One yet in growth will ever grateful be. [Ger., Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen, Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.] Votes: 0

I believe that white frame house is worthy of more than a nod of nostalgia, because the values President Clinton learned there and in Hope formed the core of his political philosophy. Votes: 0

..through the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you. Votes: 0

How do popular attitudes get formed? Do the movies just reflect it or inform it? Where does this particular idea come from? I don't know if I can say anything too illuminating. Votes: 0

I was in the De Witt Clinton Hight School marching band. One of the worst bands ever formed. When we played the national anthem, people from every country stood - except Americans. Votes: 0

In arranging the bodies in order of their electrical nature, there is formed an electro-chemical system which, in my opinion, is more fit than any other to give an idea of chemistry. Votes: 0

Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past. Votes: 0

I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to. Votes: 0

We know that energy can not be created nor destroyed but can be changed in it's form. If it can not be formed then it can not exist. We may not exist. Votes: 0

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever. Votes: 0

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977. Votes: 0

The way I formed my studio and how I organize things actually came out of the model of the Japanese animation studio and the manga industry. The manga industry is gigantic in Japan. Votes: 0

Thinking is a social process. I talk to everyone from children to anthropologists and philosophers. I try my ideas out on people and they talk back to you. That's how ideas get formed. Votes: 0

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength. Votes: 0

I guess I'm drawn to stories of people whose physicality puts them on the outside of things in order to explore the ways in which an identity is formed around these prevailing attitudes. Votes: 0

I formed my own studio, carried my own deficits, owned one-hundred percent of my negatives, and made a lot of mistakes, but we ended up being the third largest TV studio in Hollywood. Votes: 0

London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good. Votes: 0

There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls; they feel no other pleasure but to acquire money. Votes: 0

All the events of your past have formed a lens, or paradigm, through which you see the world. And since no one's past is exactly like anyone else's, no two people see alike. Votes: 0

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also. Votes: 0

It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place. Votes: 0

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers. Votes: 0

I have been there, and I have seen these totally formed babies as early as ten weeks...with the leg missing, or with their head off. I have seen the little rib cages... Votes: 0

I wrote an editorial piece in 'Science' about the nightly data release and how I thought it was bad for science as a field, I think a few years before Celera was formed. Votes: 0

It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light. Votes: 0

I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent. Votes: 0

We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted. Votes: 0

If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life. Votes: 0

Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity? Cast off thy care, leave Allah’s plans to him – He formed them all without consulting thee. Votes: 0

It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story. Votes: 0

I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be. Votes: 0

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are Votes: 0

You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues. Votes: 0

...nothing good can proceed from our will until it be formed again, and that after it is formed again in so far as it is good, it is of God, and not of us. Votes: 0

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are. Votes: 0

We [The Replacements] formed as a rock and roll band, and that was the path we chose to take. Whenever we deviated from it we felt, unless everybody was into it, there was tension. Votes: 0

When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord. Votes: 0

I believe there's been a slippery slope of new companies that have formed in the name of on-demand services... that maybe aren't having as much of a focus as they should on the worker. Votes: 0

A story comes into your head fully formed, you know exactly the place, the setting, the people. All you've got to do is get it our and written as soon as you possibly can. Votes: 0

We have sown a seed... Instead of a half-formed Europe, we have a Europe with a legal entity, with a single currency, common justice, a Europe which is about to have its own defence. Votes: 0

My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you. Votes: 0

My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement. Votes: 0

I had the idea of a boy who was a wizard and didn't yet know what he was. I never sat down and wondered, "What shall I write about next?". It just came, fully formed. Votes: 0

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever. Votes: 0

The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or very witty or very inventive after the sun goes down. Votes: 0

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet. Votes: 0

I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity. Votes: 0

It is natural for the ordinary American when he sees something wrong to feel not only that there should be a law against it but, also that an organization should be formed to combat it. Votes: 0

I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture. Votes: 0

Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light. Votes: 0

He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute. Votes: 0