Form Quotes - Page 9

• The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

  Arthur Keith

  War, Humanity, World

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.

  Philip Schaff

  Jesus, Redemption, Earth

  Philip Schaff (1871). “From the birth of Christ to the reign of Constantine, A.D. 1-311”, p.94

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• I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

  Anne Stevenson

  Memorable, Ideas, Giving

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• If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.

  Francis Crick

  Double Standard, Combination, Ifs

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• And just think, fellow Southrons, what kind of a Confederate nation we could have, if after independence, politicians abandoned equivocation and spoke honestly and firmly on all issues? If they were to do their duty to God, nation, and people, there would be virtually no need for any form of federal litigation.

  Charley Reese

  War, Thinking, Issues

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• The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is a mere 'super', in the endgame on the other hand - on of the 'principals'. We must therefore develop him, bring him nearer to the fighting line.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Kings, Fighting, Hands

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• While it might surprise many ecologists to hear, capitalism is itself the ultimate form of conservationism. Capitalists seek to conserve resources, not because of sentimental feelings about nature or the earth or whales or worry about the well-being of future generations, but simply because every drop of oil, every ton of ore, every shipment of wood saved is a cost reduction and money in the pocket.

  Steven Plaut

  Funny, Animal, Oil

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• This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.

  William Wordsworth

  Tree, Decay, Aspect

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.164

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• The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die... It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated.

  Al Gore

  Cancer, Cutting, Sacrifice

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.119, Routledge

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• Patience is a form of faith. It says, "I trust God. I believe that God is bigger than this problem."

  Rick Warren

  Faith, Christian, Believe

  Sr Rick Warren (1998). “The Power to Change Your Life: Exchanging Personal Mediocrity for Spiritual Significance”, Pastors.com

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• Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one and from this marriage to that divorce, from a beating here to a beating there.

  Ben Mink

  Country, Art, Moving

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• I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

  August Strindberg

  Ideas, Theatre, Peddling

  August Strindberg “Twelve Major Plays”, AldineTransaction

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• I have a large personal collection of pictures. For every project, I choose images. Usually I don't do this until I've done an extensive script breakdown and distilled the text down to poetic form. I have to plant enough seeds so that there will be vibration.

  Christine Jones

  Theatre, Done, Scripts

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• Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being true to one’s own consciousness.

  Ayn Rand

  Consciousness, Existence, Being True

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.127, Penguin

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• Left to it's own devices, writing is like weather. It has a drama, a form, a force to it that shapes the day. Just as good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche. There is something very right about simply letting yourself write. And the way to do that is to begin, to begin where you are.

  Julia Cameron

  Drama, Rain, Writing

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.15, Penguin

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• Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

  Connie Willis

  Thinking, Elements, Literature

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• Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active.

  Paul Klee

  Light, Circles, Oval

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.98, Parkstone International

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• There's a reason why the form was originally silent

  David Henry Hwang

  Reason Why, Silent, Reason

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• Condemnation before investigation is the highest form of ignorance.

  Albert Einstein

  Ignorance, Investigation, Condemnation

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• Well, Michael, we will be telling the people of Australia in good time before the next election exactly what they can expect from us. No surprises, no excuses. They will be our watch words going into the election and afterwards, should we form a government.

  Tony Abbott

  Government, Australia, People

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• The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. ... Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself. ... The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. ... I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Love You, Men

  Letter to William Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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• My kids that's their backyard. I think when they're adults, their memories will be mostly of spending time at beach, the exploration, the freedom that you have. You take care of your house that you live in and we make our bed and we clean our cars and we do all that stuff, but yet we neglect sort of the place that really provides us with the greatest form of sustainability, which is the ocean.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Beach, Memories, Ocean

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• Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

  Ouida

  Names, Prison, Crime

  Ouida (1890*). “Puck. In Maremma”

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• All philosophy is a form of confession.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Confession

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• The simplest kind of guidance (critique) comes every day, and many times a day in the form of discomfort.

  Barbara Brennan

  Criticism, Kind, Guidance

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