Form Quotes

At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again.

There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.

We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude. [Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]

man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal if he achieves the full potentiality of his nature.

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.

We are willing to form an army like every independent country though we are still under occupation.

I consider video games a form of design that is amazingly important today and that is going to become even more important in the future, because it is a way we interact with machines and screens.

It is not enough that you can form nay, and follow, the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world. You must also know when to deviate from them, and where lies the exception.

Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

Litigation: A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers.

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

I was a professional fighter for a while, and I trained in martial arts for seven years, so I think that kind of helped form a base for me as far as dancing.

He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.

A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

We must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular, the most potent, and the most irresistible form of propaganda.

The Verse-Refrain form starts with a context before the topic that the Refrain is talking about happens.

My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.

Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost spangling the locust twigs - is a form of prayer.

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

We are more than the parts that form us.

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system.

Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured form?

My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade.

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

Dancing is not a form of expression for the Christian liturgy.

The young British players need to take responsibility themselves for their form and ability.

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled.

When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise

Reject every form of corruption.

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.

Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.