Best air & form Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the little bird which flew through the Anglo-Saxon banqueting hall, in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, gained the outer air and became the lark ascending in Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting. The unbroken chain is that of English music itself.”

Ifs Littles Past Form Air Strange Bird Embrace Setting Settings Chains Halls Flew Alchemy Unbroken Timelessness Larks Ascending Anglo Saxon English Music

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible agents and innocent germ carriers, by the most varied forms of contact, or simply by breathing the common air.”

Book Age Form Common Air Revolution Shapes Spread Invisible Innocent Contact Agents Breathing Outlook Epidemics Germs Carrier Contamination

Author:Arthur Koestler

“You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.”

Ifs Way Giving Doe Enough Moments Helping Might Form Fall Girl Grows Growth Sun Air Flower Fairs Dust Decay Hammers Fetters Narcissus

Book:Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin

Source: Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin

“Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.”

Knows Giving Art Ideas Form Creativity Air Mystery Inspired Patterns Encounters New Ideas

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“I look at the bird in the cage and see the air, not only the air that is around the bird when it flies, but I see and feel the formative tendency of air in its form. When I do all this, then what lives in the forms becomes enlivened and spiritualized for me.”

Feels Looks Form Air Bird Tendencies Cages

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“Hasidism has a tradition that one of man's purposes is to assist God in the work of redemption by "hallowing" the things of creation. By a tremendous heave of his spirit, the devout man frees the divine sparks trapped in the mute things of time; he uplifts the forms and moments of creation, bearing them aloft into that rare air and hallowing fire in which all clays must shatter and burst. Keeping the subsoil world under trees in mind, in intelligence, is the least I can do.”

Men World Mind I Can Moments Form Spirit Purpose Can Do Fire Air Tree Land Creation Divine Tradition Redemption Uplifting Sparks Trapped Clay Mute

Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different sizes, densities, colours and volumes, floating in space, traversing clouds, sprays of water, currents of air, viscosities and odours - of the greatest variety and disparity.”

Different Form Universe Water Space Air Clouds Size Currents Circles Variety Colour Spheres Volume Floating Simplest Vary Spray Disparity Density Disk Floating In Space

Author:Alexander Calder

“The problem with Matisse is that I can't ever figure out when he's done a good painting or a bad painting because I don't know how to analyse him. I just know that I like the way he put it on and I like his airs and forms.”

Knows Way I Can Done Problem Form Know How Air Figures Painting Standards Matisse

Author:Susan Rothenberg

“You see them? You see the things that float and flop about you and through you ever moment of your life? You see the creatures that form what men call the pure air and the blue sky? Have I not succeeded in breaking down the barrier; have I not shown you worlds that no other living men have seen?”

Men World Moments Form Air Sky Pure Creatures Blue Barriers Breaking Down Floats Blue Sky

Book:Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror

Source: Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror

“We must make a great difference between God's Word and the word of man. A man's word is a little sound, that flies into the air, and soon vanishes; but the Word of God is greater than heaven and earth, yea, greater than death and hell, for it forms part of the power of God, and endures everlastingly.”

Men Littles Earth Form Heaven Sound Differences Hell Greater Air Endure Word Of God Heaven And Earth Power Of God

Book:The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“Do not several sorts of Rays make Vibrations of several bignesses, which according to their bigness excite Sensations of several Colours, much after the manner that the Vibrations of the Air, according to their several bignesses excite Sensations of several Sounds? And particularly do not the most refrangible Rays excite the shortest Vibrations for making a Sensation of deep violet, the least refrangible the largest form making a Sensation of deep red, and several intermediate sorts of Rays, Vibrations of several intermediate bignesses to make Sensations of several intemediate Colours?”

Form Sound Air Red Colour Sensations Rays Violet Vibrations

Author:Isaac Newton

“The Inmost is one with the Inmost; yet the form of the One is not the form of the other; intimacy exacts fitness. He therefore who liveth by air, let him not be bold to breathe water. But mastery cometh by measure: to him who with labour, courage, and caution giveth his life to understand all that doth encompass him, and to prevail against it, shall be increase. "The word of Sin is Restriction": seek therefore Righteousness, enquiring into Iniquity, and fortify thyself to overcome it.”

Form Water Sin Air Overcoming Increase Breathe Intimacy Labour Righteousness Mastery Caution Thyself Restriction Iniquity

Author:Aleister Crowley

“But it is a fallacy, if one is examining the methods by which security can be attained, to start upon the assumption, as so many hon. Members do, that we get security by an increase of air armaments or an increase of any other form of armaments.”

Ifs Form Air Security Members Increase Method Assumption Fallacy Examining Armament

Author:Stafford Cripps

“I started to see human beings as little lonesome, water based, pink meat, life forms pushing air through themselves and making noises that the other little pieces of meat seemed to understand. I was thinking to myself, 'There's five billion people here but we've never been more isolated.' The only result of the aggressive individualism we pursue is that you lose sight of your compassion and we go to bed at night thinking, 'Is this all there is?' because we don't feel fulfilled.”

“There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend great things; it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality which wins us deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.”

Life Giving Doe Seems Form Success Values Winning Ability Quality Fate Air Position Depends Birth Great Things Success In Life Eminence Deference

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.”

Should May Form Pay Alive Air Privilege Breathe Usefulness

Book:You learn by living

Source: You learn by living

“... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping hare is caught in a marble panel.) A glaze is put over life. There is no flaw, no crack in the surface; a still reservoir, no ripple on its face. Looking down from the air that morning, I felt that stillness rested like a light over the earth. The waterfalls seemed frozen solid; the tops of the trees were still; the river hardly stirred, a serpent gently moving under its shimmering skin.”

“perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which will shout no, and ask questions, defend the few, attack cruelty and proclaim the rights and dignity of man. ... America is going to look very strange to Americans and they will not be at home here, for the air will slowly become unbreathable to all forms of life except sheep.”

Men Looks Home America Form Asks House Voice Rooms Silence Rights Air Strange Activity Dignity Spread Determined Cruelty Censorship Sheep Committees Caucus

Author:Martha Gellhorn

“When a vision begins to form everything changes, including the air around me. I seem no longer to be in the same atmosphere. I feel a peacefulness and a love that are indescribable. I stand alone, and nothing worldly can touch me. I feel that I am looking down from a higher plane and wondering why others cannot see what I am seeing.”

Feels Seems Form Wonder Vision Seeing Air Higher Including Planes Atmosphere Worldly Things Change Stand Alone Touch Me Peacefulness Looking Down Indescribable I Stand Alone

Author:Jeane Dixon

“On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.”

May Form Reading Imagination Fiction Air Bears Reader Wings Gentle Fancy Castles

Book:The cry (1754)

Source: The cry (1754)

“An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the looked-for, yet at times unexpected, reaction of the audience. This split second is his; he is in command of his medium; the effect vanishes into thin air; but that moment has a power all its own and, like power in any form, is stimulating and alluring.”

Moments Form Actors Given Acting Power Audience Comedy Air Effects Messages Unique Tragedy Communicate Reactions Command Mediums Unexpected That Moment Splits Alluring Thin Air

Book:The Fabric of Memory

Source: The Fabric of Memory

“As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a complete inventory of Earth's resources, will form the basis for a holistic approach to cybernated decision-making.”

“Man, especially in our time, has without hesitation devastated wooded plains and valleys, polluted waters, disfigured the earth's habitat, made the air unbreathable, disturbed the hydro-geological and atmospheric systems, turned luxuriant areas into deserts and undertaken forms of unrestrained industrialization, degrading that 'flower bed'-which is the earth, our dwelling place.”

“We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide; or that to pollute the air or the oceans in order to achieve some short-term benefit would be to destroy the very basis for our survival.”

Knows War Would Be Today Form Order Term Air Achieve Example Ocean Benefits Survival Bases Suicide Environmental Nuclear Pollution Short Term Nuclear War

Book:Path To Tranquility

Source: Path To Tranquility

“The secret to freestyling is working on the creation of thought and it being expressed from your cerebral cortex, to the air in your lungs, to your larynx, pharynx, to your tongue to form a word via whatever consonants and vowels you're working with as well as having a sense of style, cadence, and rhythm.”

Wells Form Secret Air Style Creation Tongue Rhythm Lungs Cerebral Cadence Vowels Consonants

Author:Myka 9

“Inside the man all the elements that form the Universe and all the existing principles are interrelated: He touches the earth with the feet; with the arms the air and with the head the sky and through the Spirit he gets in touch with the Divinity, where he comes from and where he should return.”

Men Should Earth Form Spirit Universe Principles Air Feet Sky He Man Arms Return Elements Divinity

Author:Samael Aun Weor

“There is something new in the air. There is, there is a - a hunger for an open, non-dogmatic, form of Christian faith and practice, which adapts itself to a rapidly changing world; and speaks to that world the message of Jesus Christ. And a freedom to rediscover some of the language of the tradition now that's it's not handed down to us, you know, with a strict framework of doctrinal, fixed structures.”

Knows World Christian Form Jesus Speak Language Christ Practice Air Messages Jesus Christ Tradition Structure Hunger Fixed Something New Strict Framework Christian Faith Dogmatic

Author:Philip Clayton

“The way we treat animals is the root cause of all the human suffering in the world, from poverty, starvation, disease, and war to lack of clean air and water, not to mention all the varied forms of human emotional and spiritual suffering.”

World Way Humans War Spiritual Form Suffering Causes Water Animal Poverty Air Emotional Disease Roots Treats Clean Starvation Human Suffering Root Cause Clean Air Air And Water

Author:Sharon Gannon

“It is a fact that the ecological devastation of the planet can be traced to the consumption of meat and dairy, which contributes to water, soil, and air pollution as well as global warming and the mass extinction of many species of plant and animal forms.”

“You start to realize connections between experiences and things that push your buttons, and things that have touched you in those vulnerable areas and what-have-you. And they form a little collection over time - at least I do - and as time progresses and new things are learned, you kind of sift through those things until they're air or danceable, you know? But they start as this thing that's either too hard or too soft to dance to.”

Knows Kind Littles Hard Form Realizing Progress Air Areas Connections Vulnerable Collections Touched New Things Buttons

Author:Saul Williams

“As a society, almost one 1 of 2 adults has a chronic disease of one form or another. And where we're spending $3 trillion a year not on a healthcare system, but on a sick-care system that tries to patch us up after we've been made ill by a variety of institutional things around us - including a sick food system, air pollution, etc. Where we could be doing so much better even before people get to the point of getting sick.”

People Trying Years Made Care Form Air Disease Adults Sick Including Ill Spending Variety Etc Healthcare Pollution Patches Air Pollution

Author:Jill Stein

“Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the armed services that are involved with nuclear weapons deployment, especially the naval submarine operations and also the air force's land-based ICBM operations. So they have a big lobby in Washington.”

States Bigs Form Force United United States Air Land Involved Weapons Nuclear Operations Branches Nuclear Weapons Laboratory Air Force Naval Deployment Submarines Armed Services

Author:John Burroughs

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