No Form Quotes

The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.

Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.

The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

Sports are never just sports, we all know that. You're always carrying the flag in some way, shape or form.

Krishna is God, so He's absolute: His name, His form, prasadam, it's all Him.

If God is unlimited, then He can appear in any form, whichever way He likes to appear.

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone - which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart.

One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey.

I see that being looked at askance as a form of elitism now, which is really scary.

I love the idea that more people would read short fiction. I think it's such a humanizing form. It softens the boundaries between people.

To understand any plea for further consideration of a group you don't know anything about to be some form of, quote, political correctness. These things are bubbling right under us.

As far as which writers embody this form of gentle power - Tobias Wolff, for sure. His persona and his writing both share an easy, capacious confidence that says he has faith in his readers.

Whole swaths of the book [Lincoln in the Bardo] are made up of verbatim quotes from various historical sources, which I cut up and rearranged to form part of the narrative.

I've been trying to tame our press corps ever since I got into politics, and I've failed miserably. They get to express their opinions sometimes in the form of news.

What ends up happening is people form images and the image they form is, in some ways, what they want it to be. The idea of trying to correct the image is something I'm not interested in doing.

Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other.

Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.

To form a new Government, requires infinite care, and unbounded attention; for if the foundation is badly laid the superstructure must be bad.

[T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.

National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants.

Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.

It's a kind of liberation to break free in language, if you can break free, but it's also a confinement, because form confines you - whatever the form.

There is at least one more atheism left; it is by its very nature a belligerent form that wants to spread far and wide by propagating itself though books, TV, and other media.

The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

I think some people form the traditional DJ worlds misunderstand where I'm coming form.

Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form.

Nobody really even knows with whom the US is at war, or where. Everyone just knows that it is vital that it continue in unlimited form indefinitely.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense.

You do have all five sense when you're in a room together. You communicate and understand each other in a much deeper way. It is a different form of communication from writing or being on the web.

No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.

Sexuality has always been for humans a form of communication, a way we express love and caring and bonding, not only a way we have children if we choose to.

Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the roots of the tree.

I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.

News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving.

I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.

For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.

How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.

Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.

A good song is like a mannequin - its form makes sense, but there's no life. There should be memorable melody, thoughtful lyric, appropriate arrangement.

Forbearance is a form of generosity.

Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.