Form Quotes

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion... .

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.

Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.

The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.

Everything that I write comes when it wants to, out of its own need and it dictates its form. I don't say, "I am going to write a novel."

Cyberspace undeniably reflects some form of geography.

Form and content must never apologize for each other.

How you go over hurdle one should be how you go over hurdle ten. You need the strength to accelerate, and to maintain form.

I have been trying to lose weight for the last two-three months and it has gone really well. In the last 6-12 months I have been in the best form in quite a while.

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

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.

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.

Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, however, real.

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.

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

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

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

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

Content dictates form and style.

Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.

A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.

I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting them know beforehand what you are going to do.

As water has no constant form, there are in war no constant conditions.

Among all life forms, there are creatures with charisma and creatures without. It's one of those ineffable qualities we can't quite define, but we all seem to respond similarly to.

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

Indecision is a form of self-abuse - be ready to step up!

Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call that death, but strictly speaking, death is nothing but a change of form.

Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought with the formless.

Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.

Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.

It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.

The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy

Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation .. .Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give salvation to a man whose will ... expels the form of faith.

We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents

The dark in soul see in the universe their own shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect external beauty in form as untrue and broken as itself.

Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.

The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.

I think what makes us human is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.