Form Quotes
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.
In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.
Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.
Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption.
Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.
Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.
Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.
A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken - that's the greatest.
Intrinsic value follows meaning follows form follows economics follows function follows more economics follows market research.
Communism is a form of government under which every citizen at election time enjoys the privilege of voting Yes.
Microblogs are yet another form of public display, but I would rather be true to myself.
Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.
When a sketch comes into this three-dimensional form and everybody contributes, it's really fantastic.
The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.
You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.
I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.
Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form.
It's not as if I knew answers which I am going to set down in the form of a novel or a memoir or a sermon. It's, rather, I'm going to search myself for what I might have to say in this area.
Just as when water is frozen in to a form as ice and then melts - so at the time of death, there is no death. The spirit simply changes form.
Zero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most.
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.
I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings.
Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form.
As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.
Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the essence to scientific thinking.
That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.
Don't try so much to form your character - it's like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose. Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.
Genres aren't that relevant. Nearly every form of music is a melting pot of things of things.
To wait, to patiently sit in the dark without knowing what the outcome will be, to protect and respect that which has yet no clear form - all these are aspects of the womb.
We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.