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“As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.”

Mind Long Body Shapes Capacity

Author:Victoria Principal

“What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's real, but it doesn't last very long in its realness. It's very ephemeral and to mistaken the forms of life, the shapes that life takes, for reality, is not wise.”

Believe Long Real Reality Lasts Form Mistake Wise Terrible Shapes This Life Hinduism Mistaken Krishna Ephemeral Realness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.”

Source: The Man on the Ceiling

“It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.”

Humans Long Human Nature Shapes Betrayal Explanation Intimate Desperate Contradiction Making Love Alliances

Book:Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

Source: Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

“At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.”

Long Character Lines Shapes Window Long Lines

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“If the Soul sees, after death , what passes on this earth , and watches over the welfare of those it loves, then must its greatest happiness consist in seeing the current of its beneficent influences widening out from age to age, as rivulets widen into rivers, and aiding to shape the destinies of individuals, families, States, the World; and its bitterest punishment, in seeing its evil influences causing mischief and misery , and cursing and afflicting men, long after the frame it dwelt in has become dust, and when both name and memory are forgotten.”

Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

“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

“I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not--so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers and life span and has the ability to change its shape at will.”

Long Differences Ability Failing Shapes Great Power Life Span Ability To Change

Author:Roger Zelazny

“I have settled down in this border area; I am trying to find distinct standards of shape, and I long to experience, formulate, and evoke this dark, heavy, tranquillity.”

Trying Long Peace Dark Shapes Standards Areas Heavy Borders Evoke Tranquillity

Book:Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition

Source: Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition

“My body's feeling it a little bit. But one good thing, my back is in good shape, and that's my main concern. I know that my legs are going to take awhile to get back to where I was a few years ago, but as long as my back is solid, I feel that I can play many years.”

Knows Feels Years Littles Long I Can Play Feelings Body Bits Sports Shapes Little Bit Concern Years Ago Good Things Legs Get Back

Author:Mario Lemieux

“We can begin a discussion of artmaking by noting that from very early (as long ago as 200,000 years), humans have been naturally attracted to the extraordinary as a dimension of experience and that at some point they seem also to have been moved to make the ordinary extraordinary-that is, to shape or elaborate everyday, mundane reality and thereby transform it into something special, different from the everyday.”

“I don't believe in playing around much with suit cuts. I like a fairly classic shape that gives a man strong shoulders, a fitted waist, and long legs. Classic simplicity always works.”

Men Giving Believe Long Strong Cutting Shapes Don't Believe Simplicity Legs Shoulders Suits Classic Playing Around Long Legs

Author:Tom Ford

“The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life becomes suffused by images of shootings, family violence, gang warfare, kidnappings, and everything else that contributes to violence in our society. It shapes their experiences long before they have had the opportunity to consent to such shaping or developed the ability to cope adequately with this knowledge.”

Children Long Opportunity Ability Violence Television Shapes Everyday Screens Shooting Our Society Warfare Consent Everyday Life Lenses Gang Kidnapping Magnifying Family Violence

Author:Sissela Bok

“I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.”

Way Needs Long Form Rights Shapes Cards Voting Voters Fraud Right To Vote Voter Fraud Voter Id

Author:Andrew Young

“It used to be said, not so long ago, that every suicide gave Satan special pleasure. I don't think that's true-unless it isn't true either that the Devil is a gentleman. If the Devil has no class at all, then okay, I agree: He gets a bang out of suicide. Because suicide is a mess. As a subject for study, suicide is perhaps uniquely incoherent. And the act itself is without shape and without form. The human project implodes, contorts inward-shameful, infantile, writhing, gesturing. It's a mess in there.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Long Said Form Used Pleasure Class Study Special Subjects Shapes Projects Devil Okay Agree Suicide Used To Be Mess Gentleman Satan Long Ago Inward Bangs Shameful Infantile

Author:Martin Amis

“Nothing grows among its pinnacles; there is no shade except under great toadstools of sandstone whose bases have been eaten to the shape of wine glasses by the wind. Everything is flaking, cracking, disintegrating, wearing away in the long, inperceptible weather of time. The ash of ancient volcanic outbursts still sterilizes its soil, and its colors in that waste are the colors that flame in the lonely sunsets on dead planets.”

Long Has Beens Stills Grows Color Planets Wind Shapes Waste Lonely Bases Wine Ancient Glasses Weather Flames Soil Sunset Shade Ashes Wine Glass Pinnacle Outburst Toadstools Sandstone

Author:Loren Eiseley

“He said I couldn't do (off the field) what I did when I was 23 or 24, and I paid attention to him. Damn it, I got a trainer and went to spring training in the best shape of my career and in 1985 had the best season I ever had and we won the World Series. Before that, I didn't know how long I was going to play. That talk with Mr. Fogelman was the most inspiring talk I ever had with anyone.”

Knows World Long Said Play Attention Careers Know How Fields Shapes Spring Training Seasons Paid Series Damn Trainers World Series Spring Training Most Inspiring

Author:George Brett

“Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror and the hunters pursuing and the hounds pursuing and the night cold and the night long and the river to cross and the jack-muh-lanterns beckoning beckoning and blackness ahead”

Long Running Night Fall Darkness Cold Shapes Rivers Crosses Slavery Terror Hunters Blackness Hounds Lanterns Beckoning

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“You are part of the first generation of officers to begin your service in a world where the effects of climate change are so clearly upon us. Climate change will shape how every one of our services plan, operate, train, equip, and protect their infrastructure, today and for the long-term.”

World Firsts Long Today Term Change Plans Generations Effects Shapes Protect Train Climate Climate Change Long Term Officers Infrastructure

Author:Barack Obama

“Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.”

Knows Looks Mean Long Hard Character Know How Awareness Shapes Creating Romantic Make Sense Puzzles Figuring It

Author:Nancy Meyers

“You can get rid of the column. It's a little like staying at a hotel; you get used to the shape of the room, and then you're gone. With a novel you move into town and stay for a long time. That's both comforting and terrifying.”

Littles Long Moving Used Rooms Novel Gone Shapes Long Time Towns Hotel Staying Comforting Columns

Author:Anna Quindlen

“My creative process isn't a long one, so I could have started a song 10 years ago and then finish it 10 years later. It's all just about pushing around words and melodies, for me. The material is kind of shape-shifting.”

Years Kind Long Song Process Creative Materials Shapes Years Ago Pushing Melody Creative Process Shifting

Author:Antony Hegarty

“It's important to look ahead, I think, to shape your stuff for - again - effect. Because it's just so easy to write long, flowy sentences, get lost in them. The hard part's making them matter, making yourself make them matter.”

Thinking Writing Looks Long Important Matter Hard Lost Easy Stuff Effects Shapes Sentences

Author:Stephen Graham Jones

“Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists.”

Men Believe Humans Long Today Consciousness Effects He Man Shapes Terror Terrorist Novelists Long Ago Human Consciousness

Author:Don DeLillo

“Know that the outward form passes away, but the world of reality remains forever. How long will you play at loving the shape of the jug? Leave the jug; go, seek the water!”

Knows World Long Play Reality Form Water Forever Shapes Remains Passing Away Jugs

Author:Rumi

“The history of colonialism is long and bloody. And it continues today, in the shape of Western arrogance vis-à-vis everyone else. "Us against the rest of the world" is the formula that drives the West.”

World Long Today Shapes West Western Arrogance Formulas Colonialism Bloody

Author:Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

“...yesterday and today and tomorrow are not an arrow that shoots from past to present to future; rather all tenses, and sleeping and waking, mix and cohabit in an atemporal duration beyond clocks and calendars. The Aboriginal world began long ago when the Ancestors sang in Dreamtime the cosmic rhythms that give shape to the things we see, and it is the beginning right now, when a living Tiwi sings the Dream songs that continue, or are, the world.”

“I find that I have painted my life, things happening in my life - without knowing. After painting the shell and shingle many times, I did a misty landscape of the mountain across the lake, and the mountain became the shape of the shingle - the mountain I saw out my window, the shingle on the table in my room. I did not notice that they were alike for a long time after they were painted.”

Long Rooms Knowing Saws Painting Shapes Mountain Long Time Happenings Window Tables Things Happen Landscape Lakes Shells Misty Shingles

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe

“A lot of dudes can't function too long in mainstream life because they've been indoctrinated into that penal system where that shapes their life.”

Long Shapes Function Mainstream

Author:Sadat X

“We have heard projects with some of the writers, who we've been in business with for a long time at the studio, that we've heard as a studio - often, pitches that are still in their formation stage where we or the writers have wanted our input on developing them. We've probably heard more pitches with the network hat on. Certainly all of the outside pitches are that way, and many of the pitches that have been in great shape coming out of the studio we've heard from a network perspective.”

Way Long Has Beens Stills Wanted Heard Stage Perspective Shapes Projects Long Time Studios Developing Hats Coming Out Formation Input

Author:Gary Numan

“The world of shapes, lines, curves, and solids is as varied as the world of numbers, and it is only our long-satisfied possession of Euclidean geometry that offers us the impression, or the illusion, that it has, that world, already been encompassed in a manageable intellectual structure. The lineaments of that structure are well known: as in the rest of life, something is given and something is gotten; but the logic behind those lineaments is apt to pass unnoticed, and it is the logic that controls the system.”

Source: The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World

“As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above", I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“As long as I'm in good shape, you'll always see me smiling.”

Author:Usain Bolt

“I was struggling against the flypaper of other arts harnessing film to their own usages, which means essentially as a recording device or within the long historical trap of picture - by which I mean a collection of nameable shapes within a frame. I don't even think still photography, with few exceptions, has made any significant attempt to free itself from that.”

Thinking Mean Long Art Made Stills Film Struggle Shapes Photography Historical Significant Collections Exception Devices Traps Usage

Author:Stan Brakhage

“At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and images form the world we live in. All our lives, that world is more immediate than words and difficult to articulate. Photography, reflecting those images with uncanny accuracy, evokes their associations and our instant conviction. The art of the photographer lies in using those connotations, as a poet uses the connotations of words and a musician the tonal connotations of sounds.”

“To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge.”

Thinking Humans Long Ideas Enough Seems Shapes Human Knowledge

Book:Notebooks of the Mind: Explorations of Thinking

Source: Notebooks of the Mind: Explorations of Thinking

“When I'm bored or tired of being blonde, I'll throw on a wig. It's a lot less of a permanent way to change your look, and I have about 10 - all different colors, shapes, bobs, long hair, short, feathered.”

Way Looks Long Different Color Hair Shapes Tired Bored Permanent Bob Blonde Wigs Long Hair Different Colors

Author:Sara Blakely

“Yet each of us also carries another portrait with us, a picture far more important than any in our wallet. Psychologists have a name for it. They call that mental picture of ourselves, our self-image. ... there's always the person whose self-image is bent all out of shape, like a photo carried too long in a wallet.The good news of the tremendous worth we have in God's eyes can light up our inner self-portrait.”

Persons Long Important Self Light Eye Names Shapes News Carrie Portraits Bent Good News Inner Self Psychologist Light Up Wallets Self Portrait

Author:Josh McDowell

“We spent a long time learning the craft of songwriting, Roger Glover and I, for a few years before we joined Deep Purple. You learn about the percussive value of words, and you learn about rhyme and meter. You learn that you can't transform a poem into a song lyric, mostly because the spoken shape of words is different than the sung shape of words. You wouldn't use the vowel 'U' or the vowel sound 'ooo' for a high note for example, its very difficult.”

Years Long Different Use Values Song Difficult Sound Example Shapes Long Time Notes Crafts Songwriting Rhyme Purple Roger Meter Vowels High Notes Deep Purple

Author:Ian Gillan

“There seems to be for a long time now a range of issues that the Australian people want to talk about, but for some reason politicians of various shapes and stripes have decided they don't want to talk about.”

People Want Long Reason Seems Issues Politician Shapes Long Time Decided Various Range Australian Stripes

Author:Cory Bernardi

“I avoid long layoffs and I try to stay in shape at all times.”

Trying Long Shapes All Time Layoff

Author:Urijah Faber

“Curiously enough, the only two plays that I've done very much revision on were the two adaptations - even though the shape of them was pretty much determined by the original work. With my own plays, the only changes, aside from taking a speech out here, putting one in there (if I thought I dwelled on a point a little too long or didn't make it explicit enough), are very minor; but even though they're very minor - having to do with the inability of actors or the unwillingness of the director to go along with me - I've always regretted them.”

Ifs Littles Long Two Done Enough Play Actors My Own Shapes Directors Speech Originals Determined Minors Inability Adaptation Explicit Revision

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“To look at long term trends in our economy, in our society, in the international sphere and using my best judgment, shape policies that will serve the American people, keep them safe, keep our economy growing, put people back to work.”

People Looks Long Term Economy Growing Policy Shapes Safe Judgment International Long Term Our Society Trends Spheres Back To Work

Author:Barack Obama

“I didn't smoke. I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now. We worked every day - that keeps you in pretty good shape. We could go for a long time in one take. You had to be in good shape with Gene Kelly.”

Long Shapes Long Time Smoke Genes

Author:Donald O'Connor

“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

“I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.”

Long Important God Used Shapes Long Time Absence Holes Stressed Stressed Out

Author:Salman Rushdie

“As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.”

Long Shapes Beats Motivational Sports

Author:Usain Bolt

“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”

World Long Matter Hard Philosophy Values Given Struggle Mines Shapes Highest Standards Absolutes Given Up Objectivism

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Maybe I'd never see him again... maybe he'd gone for good... swallowed up, body and soul, in the kind of stories you hear about... Ah, it's an awful thing... and being young doesn't help any... when you notice for the first time... the way you lose people as you go along ... the buddies you'll never see again... never again... when you notice that they've disappeared like dreams... that it's all over... finished... that you too will get lost someday... a long way off but inevitably... in the awful torrent of things and people... of the days and shapes... that pass... that never stop.”

People Way Firsts Kind Long Soul Helping Stories Dream Body Young Lost Loses Gone Shapes First Time Finished Awful Someday Long Way Buddy

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”

People Needs Long Matter Used Sin Talking Pride Praying One Day Shapes Long Time Blind Salvation Right Time

Book:The Best of Faulkner

Source: The Best of Faulkner