Form Quotes

The female form is much more erotic than the male, who doesn't think that?

Hillary Clinton appears to believe in a form of stoicism - which is a tried and true life philosophy.

I've got plenty of love in my life already in the form of my sons and a few good friends who I value dearly.

confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder

Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing.

We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People who are great writers don't have to write novels anymore.

A bike is the world's most used form of transportation

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.

There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice.

Conversation: The slowest form of human communication.

Another thing rappers, I admire your rebellious spirit, but materialism is a form of mental slavery. Slow down on the jewelry, pick up a book.

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to say, should simply say it.

What I know for sure is that I am a temporary expression in physical form of the one consciousness that expresses itself throughout the universe. I am not separate from that.

To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form.

Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.

Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.

Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.

Habit is a form of exercise.

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.

O help me Father in heaven to overcome and resist temptation in every form or shape.

Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have any moral hang-up about it.

According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that, poetry or other art forms.

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education.

much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).

It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

War is the most readily available form of chaos.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.

Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery.

When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

To Norwegians, the polka is a form of martial art.

The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography.

You know what I like about the American form of government? They've worked things out so that you're never far from a 7-Eleven.

Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it.

I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.

Destruction after all is a form of creation.

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

Art is nothing without form.

The media of sameness and separation represent the world in its most religious form - the structuring of the social in images.

Someone who is incapable of drawing, and cannot master line or colour perspective can always express themselves in some form of abstraction.

I realized that my righteous indignation was a form of entertainment for me. I loved getting pissed off at injustice. I didn't do anything about it, I just liked the feeling of being pissed off.