Shapes Quotes - Page 26

• Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Real, Acceptance, Doe

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• Break my heart? Is that what you just said? I have news for you; you didn't break my heart. My heart's fine. My heart's in the best shape of its life. You know what you did to me? You took an AK-47 and blew my soul open.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Heart, Ak 47, Soul

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.334, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do, like having a family, earning money, traveling, and learning a foreign language. Others, though, decide that it really is possible to make a difference in society and to shape the world we will hand on to future generations.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Hands, Differences

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• In life, we don't know why things happen. I believe God is not responsible for the bad things that happen to you. Sometimes I think He's responsible for the good things, but sometimes it's something you shape up for yourself.

  Buck Brannaman

  Believe, Thinking, Why Things Happen

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• Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s appearance, to human design and effort, human conventions and convenience, and the human pursuit of that elusive, indefinable harmony that we call beauty. It has a life of its own, an intricate, willful, secret life, as any gardener knows. It is only the humans in it who think of it as a garden. But a garden is a relationship, which is one of the countless reasons why it is never finished.

  W. S. Merwin

  Garden, Thinking, Design

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• The kitten was six weeks old. It was enchanting, a delicate fairy-tale cat, whose Siamese genes showed in the shape of the face, ears, tail, and the subtle lines of its body. [...] She sat, a tiny thing, in the middle of a yellow carpet, surrounded by five worshipppers, not at all afraid of us. Then she stalked around that floor of the house, inspecting every inch of it, climbed up on to my bed, crept under the fold of a sheet, and was at home.

  Doris Lessing

  Home, Cat, Yellow

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• Utopianism also attempts to shape and dominate the individual by doing two things at once: it strips the individual of his uniqueness, making him indistinguishable from the multitudes that form what is commonly referred to as 'the masses,' but it simultaneously assigns him a group identity based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, income, etc., to highlight differences within the masses.

  Mark Levin

  Race, Ethnicity, Two

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• The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Years, Drawing, Done

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• Hope is a critical thing. Whithout it, we are nothing. Hope shapes will. The will shapes the world.

  Karen Marie Moning

  World, Critical

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• He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.

  Leonard Cohen

  Heart, Men, Monsters

  "Beautiful Losers". Book by Leonard Cohen, 1966.

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• Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Gender, Femininity, Masculinity

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• You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place, and you can see the whole picture and finally understand the role each individual part plays. The dawn comes, the sky grows light, and the colors and shapes of the roofs of houses, which you could only glimpse vaguely before, come into focus.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Light, Color

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• How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them.

  Margo Lanagan

  Children, Different, Grew Up

  Margo Lanagan (2012). “The Brides of Rollrock Island”, p.34, Random House

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• Dear Alec and Magnus, This is the first postcard of five. Don't freak out or anything, but I need you to send me $150,000 to cover the cost of: 1) Two diamanté crowns 2) 20 peacocks 3) 300 chocolate lollipops in the shape of your heads 4) My dress 5) 500 lbs of glitter 6) One white horse (More to come in other cards) -Isabelle

  Cassandra Clare

  Horse, Two, White

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• A marriage is a private thing. It has its own wild laws, and secret histories, and savage acts, and what passes between married people is incomprehensible to outsiders. We look terrible to you, and severe, and you see our blood flying, but what we carry between us is hard-won, and we made it just as we wished it to be, just the color, just the shape.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Blood, Color, Law

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• Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare, and shape my grief In little words. I cannot conjure loveliness, to drown The bitter woe that racks my cords apart. The weary pen that sets my sorrow down Feeds at my heart. There is no mercy in the shifting year, No beauty wraps me tenderly about. I turn to little words- so you, my dear, Can spell them out.

  Dorothy Parker

  Grief, Heart, Night

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• Her hair was strawberry blond, and she had the shape of a popsicle stick: turn her sideways and she practically disappeared.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Hair, Sticks, Sideways

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Stress, Thinking, Light

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• One evening, when we were already resting on the floor of our hut, dead tired, soup bowls in hand, a fellow prisoner rushed in and asked us to run out to the assembly grounds and see the wonderful sunset. Standing outside we saw sinister clouds glowing in the west and the whole sky alive with clouds of ever-changing shapes and colors, from steel blue to blood red. The desolate grey mud huts provided a sharp contrast, while the puddles on the muddy ground reflected the glowing sky. Then, after minutes of moving silence, one prisoner said to another, "How beautiful the world could be.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Beautiful, Running, Moving

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.37, Beacon Press

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• But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Long, Youth

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. ILLUSTRATED. : Illustrated by True Williams (Mobi Classics)”, p.82, MobileReference

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• But hunger, like food, comes in many shapes and colors.

  Katherine Applegate

  Color, Hunger

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• What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since everyone hath every one, one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you. On Helen’s cheek all art of beauty set, And you in Grecian tires are painted new. Speak of the spring and foison of the year; The one doth shadow of your beauty show, The other as your bounty doth appear, And you in every blessèd shape we know. In all external grace you have some part, But you like none, none you, for constant heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Spring, Years

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Shakespeare's Sonnets & Poems”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel like someone is pressing me into a mold that does not fit my body, forcing me intothe wrong shape.

  Veronica Roth

  Doe, Body, Mold

  Veronica Roth (2012). “Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.

  Stephen Baxter

  Cutting, Past, Envy

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• No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human beings are incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape the world. I myself have never understood why, in a universe so vast, a god would care about something so trivial as worship or human destiny.

  Glen Cook

  Destiny, Insanity, Shadow

  "The White Rose". Book by Glen Cook, 1985.

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