Best shapes & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.”

Feels Writing Littles Ends Film Actors Space Roles Shapes Interviews Disguise Shifting

Author:Julia Leigh

“Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.”

“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”

Thinking Believe Long Ends Philosophy Running Dies Choices I Believe Process Responsibility Our Lives Shapes Long Runs I Have Learned Stopping Unsure

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital. Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day's work... In the world of David Rockefeller it's hard to tell where business ends and politics begins”

“It's when most of the guests have gone that the party really gets interesting - peering under the table and into the bath to see who's stayed and what shape they're in. It is then that those who are still conscious divulge things you had not known before: sometimes about themselves, sometimes about other people and sometimes about you. It does not necessarily make pleasant hearing but it is always fascinating. In the relaxed atmosphere, in the wake of the hubbub, they unwind and grow confidential - nay, indiscreet. If they are not already, they end up as your closest friends.”

“in most important ways, leaders of the future will need the traits and capabilities of leaders throughout history: an eye for change and a steadying hand to provide both vision and reassurance that change can be mastered, a voice that articulates the will of the group and shapes it to constructive ends, and an ability to inspire by force of personality while making others feel empowered to increase and use their own abilities.”

“Any time I put together a story collection, I don't know what it's going to look like overall - or even what the title story is going to be. Over time, I end up with a dozen or so stories, and I start to see a shape to them, how they fit together, and then I write stories that complement or extend that shape.”

Knows Writing Looks Ends Stories Together Fit Shapes Titles Collections Dozen Complement

Author:Brian Evenson

“Writing when you are already very old means you have lived through the endings of so many things, you are more aware of the shape life takes. You begin to know Death, you've been close to it. But youth can barely imagine the end of this journey.”

Knows Writing Mean Ends Imagine Journey Youth Shapes

Author:Gore Vidal

“Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone, and I'm better.' They're wrong.”

People Ends Deals Grief Gone Shapes Misconception

Author:Keanu Reeves

“My character on 'I'm In the Band,' Derek Jupiter of Iron Weasel, is definitely one of the crazier ones. That's completely on the other end of the spectrum. There's absolutely nothing like Derek any shape or form. I'm having so much fun playing this egotistical, '80s-era rockstar - everything he does is from the point-of-view of a rockstar.”

Doe Ends Character Form Fun Views Shapes Band Point Of View Eras Iron 80s Spectrum Absolutely Nothing Egotistical Jupiter Rockstars Weasels

Author:Steve Valentine

“It's ok to fail. Failing does not shape your personality; it's how you react upon your failure. Do you dust yourself off and mope or do you dust yourself off and come back stronger the next time? Eventually you will win. It may not happen the next time, it may take a little time but you will win in the end.”

May Littles Doe Ends Happens Motivational Next Winning Failing Personality Shapes Stronger Dust Next Time Little Time Dust Yourself Off

Author:Tiger Woods

“It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.”

Ends Interest Particular Shapes Relation Structure Contrary Mold Systematic

Author:Paulo Freire

“We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest--blank; and the world tells uswhat we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us. To you it says--Work; and to us it says--Seem! To you it says--As you approximate to man's highest ideal of God, as your arm is strong and your knowledge great, and the power to labour is with you, so you shall gain all that human heart desires. To us it says--Strength shall not help you, nor knowledge, nor labour. You shall gain what men gain, but by other means. And so the world makes men and women.”

Source: The Story of an African Farm: A Novel

“Children are born as individuals. If we fail to see that, if we see them as clay to be molded in any shape we like, the tougher ones will fight back and end up spiteful and wild, while the less strong will lose that uniqueness they were born with.”

Ifs Children Ends Fighting Individual Strong Born Loses Failing Shapes Individuality Uniqueness Clay Strong Will Spiteful

Author:Melvin Konner

“They say that 'history is an argument without end.' In Thompson's skillful hands, this momentous argument between two old friends on the most critical issue of the last century is thus history at its best. Thompson's judicious and delicious depiction of Nitze and Kennan will fascinate anyone who cares about the Cold War or the ways that human beings shape the future.”

Way Humans Two War Ends Hands Care Lasts Human Beings Issues Century Cold Shapes Argument Critical Cold War Delicious Who Cares Old Friends Skillful Depiction

Author:Jonathan Alter

“The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of any orderly progress and governance of things: the men of genius propound solutions which grow into systems of Theology or of Philosophy, or veiled in musical language which suggests more than it asserts, take the shape of the Poetry of an epoch.”

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“One must believe neither the people of the palace, who ordinarily measure the power of the king by the shape of his crown, which, being round, has no end, nor those who, in the excesses of an indiscreet zeal, proclaim themselves openly as partisans of Rome.”

People Believe Ends Kings Shapes Rounds Rome Excess Crowns Palaces Zeal Partisans

Author:Cardinal Richelieu

“Rashly, And praised be rashness for it--let us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will”

Knows Should Wells Ends Shapes Divinity Plot Rough Providence Rashness

Author:William Shakespeare

“Because the body is the end product of intelligence and how that intelligence shapes your reality will shape the reality of the body.”

Ends Body Reality Products Shapes

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Hitler, who founded the Third Reich, who ruled it ruthlessly and often with uncommon shrewdness, who led it to such dizzy heights and such a sorry end, was a person of undoubted, if evil genius. It is true that in the German people, as a mysterious Providence and centuries of experience had molded them up to that time, he found a natural instrument which he was able to shape to his own sinister ends.”

Source: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

“I was just disciplined. I knew I had to get back into shape after six weeks for the film Goal II, but I cheated in the end - I wore a corset. I loved my pregnancy, I blossomed. I felt goddess-like and very secure. I found it comforting to have a little thing growing inside me, and very calming.”

Littles Ends Film Found Felt Goal Growing Week Shapes Six Secure Get Back Pregnancy Little Things Goddess Comforting Cheated Calming Corsets I Cheated

Author:Anna Friel

“Either the material order is the whole of being, wherein all transcendence is an illusion, or it is the phenomenal surface - mysterious, beautiful, terrible, harsh, and haunting - of a world of living spirits.... One should... be able to recognize that it is only the latter view that has ever had the power - over centuries and in every realm of human accomplishment - to summon desire beyond the boring limits marked by mortality, to endow the will with constancy and purpose, and to shape imagination towards ends that should not be possible within the narrow economies of the flesh.”

“As an actor, you want people to see you as a whole person, not just a single facet of your emotional spectrum. And whether it's the audience or the industry, you end up getting pigeonholed as one thing. So for people to see I can be funny and stay in shape is a bit of a weight off my shoulders.”

People Want Persons I Can Ends Whole Actors Bits Audience One Thing Emotional Industry Shapes Weight Shoulders Spectrum Facets Whole Person

Author:Scott Porter

“I never start a section of the story without knowing how it will end. I also consciously try to shape the story as though it were a movie.”

Trying Ends Stories Knowing Shapes Sections

Author:Dave Barry

“All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And theres only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.”

Way Ideas Ends Shapes One Way Sculpture Wire Loops

Book:The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air

Source: The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air

“That it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged, and considered, which matters in the end, not some stamp of salvation or damnation that disperses all the complexity into some unsatisfying little decision - the balancing of scales.”

Should Littles Ends Matter Decision Shapes Salvation Scales Complexity Stamps Damnation

Book:Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition

Source: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition

“When you have breakfasted well and fully, if you will drink a big cup of chocolate at the end you will have digested the whole perfectly three hours later, and you will still be able to dine. Because of my scientific enthusiasm and the sheer force of my eloquence I have persuaded a number of ladies to try this, although they were convinced it would kill them; they have always found themselves in fine shape indeed, and have not forgotten to give the Professor his rightful due.”

Source: The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy

“The most perfect melodic shapes are found in Mozart; he has the lightness of touch which is the true objective ... Listen to the remarkable expansion of a Mozart melody, to Cherubino's 'Voi che sapete', for instance. You think it is coming to an end, but it goes farther, even farther.”

Thinking Ends Found Perfect Shapes Objectives Instance Remarkable Melody Expansion Lightness Coming To An End

Author:Richard Strauss

“Walking your path doesn't mean you don't hurt, it means the pain is worth the progress. Sometimes you have to break something down in order to remake it, and that includes yourself, or it did for me. There were moments when I wept for an easier road, but in the end I would not trade my path for anyone else's. It is mine and the traveling of it has made me who I am, and continues to shape and remold me into the best, happiest, most productive, most playful me, I've ever been.”

Mean Made Ends Sometimes Moments Pain Order Hurt Break Path Progress Mines Walking Easier Shapes Trade Who I Am Productive Remakes

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.”

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine an animal that begins its life in the water, but ends it on land - already, that's pretty weird. But, also, a lot of them are incredibly tiny and look wildly improbable. They have funny little toes, they stretch their throats into weird bubble shapes when they croak, and some of them are poisonous to the touch. I think kids from the twenty-second century might mythologize amphibians the way kids today mythologize dinosaurs.”

“The shape the words end up taking are themselves the meaning of the words, they are retrospectively what we meant to say. There's no way of knowing this until you register it in visible form. But the other side of this is that you do have some idea of where you are going.”

Way Ideas Ends Form Sides Knowing Shapes Visible Where You Are Register Where You Are Going

Author:Teju Cole

“My children have made me a better man, which is - in the end, that's probably more important than two more comedy specials or being in better shape.”

Men Children Made Two Important Ends Comedy Shapes My Children Better Man

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.”

Thinking Years Ends Shapes Notion Pounds Gym Wow Just Smile Triceps

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“For those interested in Reformed thought more broadly, I'd recommend Peter Leithart's recent book on Reformed Catholicism entitled, The End of Protestantism: Pursuing Unity in a Fragmented Church (Brazos Press, 2016), as a thought-provoking and stimulating read that should get us all thinking about the future shape of the Church, wherever we come from.”

Thinking Should Book Ends Church Shapes Presses Unity Thought Provoking Catholicism Peter Entitled Provoking Fragmented Protestantism Thinking About The Future

Author:Oliver D. Crisp

“The British inclined more towards the feudal mentality, the feudal structures rather than the more radical progressive elements who would re-shape society and institute pretty egalitarian systems of governance with opportunity for even disadvantaged people and so I found that decolonisation was not just the end of political struggle in Nigeria.”

People Ends Political Found Opportunity Struggle Shapes Elements Structure British Radical Progressive Mentality Governance Institute Nigeria Disadvantaged Political Struggle

Author:Wole Soyinka

“Politics will take whatever shape it needs for people to get elected. But at the end of the day, the population remains and that's really, as an educator, who I care about.”

People Needs Ends Care Shapes Remains Population The End Of The Day I Care Educator

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.”

Giving Ends Jobs Careers Shapes Give Me Stress Relief The End Of The Day Farms Day To Day Domain Stress Relief

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.”

Writing Ends Difficult Fiction Fronts Figures Shapes Satisfying Non Fiction Fiction Writers Refining

Author:Chaim Potok

“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”

Ends Change Grief Sorrow Shapes Cinema Grieving

Author:Keanu Reeves

“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”

Source: You learn by living

“It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.”

Ends Inspiration Shapes Divinity

Author:Sivananda

“Fitness is a curve. You can be Lance Armstrong, or you can be really out of shape at the opposite end. People enter the curve wherever they are and then they can move up the curve, by better nutrition and better exercise.”

People Ends Moving Exercise Shapes Opposites Nutrition Curves Armstrong

Author:Gordon Strachan

“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”

Source: Looking for Alaska

“There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it to gravel, we can shape it into glory. Examples from every other life are left for us to see, lifeworks finished and unfinished, guiding and warning. Near the end our sculpture is nearly finished, and we can smooth and polish what we started years before. We can make our progress then, but to do it we must see past the appearances of age.”

Years Ends Age Past Left Given Behinds Progress Example Shapes Glory Tools Lifetime Appearance Finished Block Pounds Warning Drag Smooth Sculpture Polish Marble Unfinished Gravel

Author:Richard Bach

“Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides to the ground and then bounced toward her eagerly. 'You see I am fate,' it shouted, 'and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life.”

“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.”

“After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profound of folktales, to reflect the shapes of our own tiny lives? And if the physicists are right, that the physical world changes as it is observed, and we are its only known observers, then might we not be bending the entire chaotic universe, the eternal, ever-active Now, to fit that familiar form?”

Source: Otherland 4: Sea of Silver Light

“Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shapes our ends.”

Ends Shapes Likes Divinity Whistler

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

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