Forms Quotes

But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the "text" in literary terms.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

One often forms a mental image of an artist through his work and is often disappointed on meeting him.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way.

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?

First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.