Form Quotes

Arson is the single most fundamental form of terrorism.It's the simplest terrorist tactic.

In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.

The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side.

Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.

The public hardly suspects that their purchase of cosmetics, pet food, toothpaste, eggs and other common items have, in all likelihood, caused some form of animal suffering.

The ultimate form of love for God and men is forgiveness.

Straight lines don't exist in the human form and are extremely rare in nature, so the human touch in the logo is that all the lines and forms have at least a slight curve.

If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as you can get in a narrative form.

Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.

It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.

Globilization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does.

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

If we no longer judge the content of people's actions, but merely their form, then we are entering dangerous times indeed.

Nothing is more beautiful than a line that brings out a form.

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

Smiling is one of the highest forms of meditation.

The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.

Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very gut honest about feelings.

I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.

I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us.

I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

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

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

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

Gratitude is not a payment for a kindness but another form of gift.

The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.

The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.

Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The Holy Koran, our religious book, teaches us, that we who declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims, do not participate in no wars, in no way, fashion or form, that take the lives of other humans.

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

Love is the greatest form of loyalty, one that places happiness of the beloved over the lover.

Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.