Quotes of: Formative Keyword

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

Venus in Arms

We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes.

Voice of Reason

The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance.

Voice of Reason

Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people.

Voice of Reason

If love is a form of substance abuse, I hope to die high.

Write like no one is reading 2

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

What Is Art?

Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

None of us just pop into the world fully formed, so it's the little facts that make us.

We Shadows

If all the centenarians formed their own country, they’d be both the youngest country in the world, and the oldest.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

I didn’t form my lips into the shape of a kiss. I was merely about to whistle.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

The Zookeeper's Wife

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

Charles Lamb

A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.

Henry Louis Gates

The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.

Jonah Goldberg

We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to.

Jerry Lawler

Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.

Lucy Larcom

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.

Philip Pullman

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Rita Mae Brown

Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address diseases of poverty is one of the best forms of foreign aid.

Seth Berkley

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.

Slash

I have been trying to lose weight for the last two-three months and it has gone really well. In the last 6-12 months I have been in the best form in quite a while.

Shane Warne