No Form Quotes

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

Facility is an obstacle to any creativeness. In any art form. You get a nice effect without effort, sometimes by accident, and you're satisfied; but there's nothing substantial underneath.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.

Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from every part of the face.

[Sometimes] I sit in front of my [gaming] console with my headphones on and I play. I love that. It's a nice form of escapism.

Everybody that is just is called to form part of the Kingdom of Heaven-whether they be Buddhas, Jews, or Atheists-as long as they are good.

Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.

...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.

The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations.....may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be.

Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?

I do believe motion pictures are the significant art form of our time. And I think the main reason is, they're an art form of movement, as opposed to static art forms of previous times.

Acting is a form of confession.

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

People're artists they're doing something, taking a hunk of chaps, giving it some order, some form, and presenting it saying here is my little song and dance, my chaos.

We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.

A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.

I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

I have to have breakfast and breakfast has to be eggs, whether in omelet form, hard-boiled, or over-easy.

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

The gold standard, in one form or another, will prevail long after the present rash of national fiats is forgotten or remembered only in currency museums.

I was always making things. I made model airplanes and did a number of hands-on activities. I liked creating in some form or another, not realizing what it was all about.

Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.

Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.

You see, death is not the grave as many people think. It is another phenomenized form of life.

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

We create the possibility for a better human form in our next life if during our jamaloca existence after death, when we still have an astral body, we can have memories connected with music.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.

My weakness is pizza, any form of carbohydrate. I like junk carbohydrates, I like cheap greasy cheeseburgers, quality french fries.

The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.

I guess I had to learn how to run properly. I spent a lot of time on a giant treadmill, like one of those wheels mice run around on, and got filmed doing it to improve my form.

The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity.

The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.

I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.

Form follows failure.

The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.

Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition.

Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of an adult.

And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.