Shapes Quotes - Page 32

• Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Peace, War, Years

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 106

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• Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Poetry, Bent, Prose

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• I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Real, Power, Giving

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

  Anne Frank

  Relationship, Family, Children

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.191, Bantam

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• If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.

  Kofi Annan

  Family, Respect, Parent

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• I think that whatever size or shape body you have, it's important to embrace it and get down!

  Christina Aguilera

  Confidence, Thinking, Important

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• You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Admire, Involved

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• There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Acting, Done, Kind

  Thomas Carlyle (1891). “The Socialism and Unsocialism of Thomas Carlyle: Introduction, by the editor. Book I. Proem. Book II. The modern worker. Book III. Signs of the times. Book IV. Horoscope. Essay on the genius and tendency of the writings of Thomas Carlyle, by Joseph Mazzini. v. 2. Book V. The French revolution. Book VI. Horoscope. Essay on the genius and tendency of the writings of Thomas Carlyle, by Joseph Mazzini”

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• I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute - so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes.

  Ian Mckellen

  Cute, Character, Play

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• You know the theory of cell irritability? If you take an amoeba cell and poke it a thousand times, it will change and then re-form into its original shape. And then, the thousandth time you poke this amoeba, the cell will completely collapse and become nothing. That's kind of what it's like being famous. People say hi, how are you doing, and after the thousandth time, you just get angry; you really pop.

  Bill Murray

  Cells, People, Acting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest. What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.

  Al Purdy

  Time, Fall, Autumn

  1962 Poems forAll theAnnettes,'Pause' (revised1968).

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• Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.

  Subramanya Bharathi

  Time, Past, Looks

  "The People's Poet" by N. Nandhivarman to "TamilSydney", www.sangam.org. January 7, 2008.

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• One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

  Franklin A. Thomas

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

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• The store of wisdom does not consist
  of hard coins which keep their shape
  as they pass from hand to hand;
  it consists of ideas and doctrines
  whose meanings change
  with the minds that entertain them.

  John Plamenatz

  Knowledge, Hands, Ideas

  John Petrov Plamenatz (1963). “Man and Society: A Critical Examination of Some Important Social and Political Theories from Machiavelli to Marx... John Plamenatz....”

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• If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding... and snatch an opportunity to shape character.

  Jane Clayson Johnson

  Children, Character, Parenting

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• ...in place of the Old Bottom Line of money and power, a New Bottom Line of Love and Generosity is possible. People of all faiths need to shape a political and social movement that reaffirms the most generous, peace-oriented, social justice-committed, and loving truths of the spiritual heritage of the human race.

  Michael Lerner

  Love, God, Faith

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• Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence reality is found.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Reality, Thinking

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• In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.

  Rowan Williams

  God, Kindness, Encounters

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• We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.

  Madeleine Albright

  Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility

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• Landscape shapes culture

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Culture, Landscape

  Terry Tempest Williams (1984). “Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland”, p.135, UNM Press

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• An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.

  Eric Maisel

  Struggle, Artist, Important

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which is strongly marked, and speaks the kind seldom to have mixed with any other. But there is nothing in the shape, nothing in the faculties, that shows their coming from different originals; and the varieties of climate, of nourishment, and custom, are sufficient to produce every change.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Science, Looks, World

  Oliver Goldsmith (1823). “A history of the earth, and animated nature”, p.2

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• It's not the events that shape my life that determine how I feel and act, but, rather, it's the way I interpret and evaluate my life experiences.

  Tony Robbins

  Thinking, Events, Way

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Substance, World

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.461, e-artnow

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• Nickel for my thoughts, dimes in my bed. Quarters of the kush shape the lines in my head.

  Drake

  Humble, Smoking, Lines

  Song: Successful

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