Form Quotes

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.

I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is - a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate.

To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

Life is true to form; records are meant to be broken.

Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.

Bing was always hesitant to accept appreciation in any form.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

Instead of hoping that some day the boys' club will open its doors, we can form our own clubs, define 'worthy' our own way, and celebrate the books and voices that we decide deserve celebration.

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.