No Form Quotes

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism.

A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.

At bottom are only two pure forms of legislation - productive and redistributive.

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think.

Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!

In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.

You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.

I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.

Reality is blocked by form and image.

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.

Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.

This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.

Films are an art form which are sold after packaging in this commercial world

Learning to trust our intuition is an art form, and like all other art forms, it takes practice to perfect.

I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.

So, sleep deprivation, and sometimes an insomnia, which is a little bit of a different form, but just getting a lack of sleep, can lead to a number of different decrements.

The family consists of those who live under the same roof with the pater familias ; those who form (if I may use the expression) his fire-side.

Our survival depends on our ability to form trusting relationships.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

In our natural body every part has a necessary sympathy with every other; and all together form, by their harmonious conspiration, a healthy whole.

The best form of worship is to be happy, to be grateful.

I grew up in the 80s and that was the first time advertising was considered seriously as anything resembling an art form.

Writing is a form of mischief.

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

Style is time’s fool. Form is time’s student

I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to tap…we’re just getting started figuring out what the rules are.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.

What is this universe but name and form?

A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.

Abundance is an expansion of energy. Abundance is a form of gratitude, a generosity, a modesty, a bow toward others - what we can give, what we can share, rather than what we can take.

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge.

Technology is technology and then art form and people's creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything - great! Technology for technology sake doesn't mean much to me anyway.

Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a stage at any show.

Loss is imaginary. Nothing ever disappears in the universe; it only changes form.

Music is a form of prayer.

If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.

We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.

The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

I feel like that's the reason a lot of pop music doesn't have that grasp that other forms of music do, because it's more rooted in only the happier aspects of life - there's not really a connection.

Peace without energy may be only stagnation; and energy without peace may be but a form of panic.