Quotes of: Formative Keyword

I searched my mind for the right visualization. I knew it had to start with what I put in my head. That is where all my accomplishments are formed.

Maze of Existence

He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.

The Ministry of Fear

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

The Myths We Live by

An error of the passions is not the flowering of a great love, and merely the beauty of the human form is not capable of inspiring an eternity of mad attachment.

Monsieur Venus: A Materialist Novel

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

The Nicomachean Ethics

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.

Naked Lunch

She thinks that charm is a form of intelligence, and she respects the intelligence.

The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens

When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity.

Norwegian Wood

Marriage without love is just one more twisted form of slavery.

The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist

Freedom is inevitable; it is only the matter of the form in which it occurs. I think it is not the freedom per se that matters but the capacity to absorb it. I could have it and yet not enjoy it.

Life... Love... Kumbh...

The judge speaks in the name of justice,' he said. 'The priest speaks in the name of pity, which is only a higher form of justice.' (Bishop Myriel)

Les Misérables

This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.

Looking for God in Harry Potter

Does your frustration equate a certain form of revenge? Bright light shines upon me despite of hills of frustration.

Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Science is a form of arrogance control.

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

My Quest for Beauty

They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.

Mortal Coil

I let my face go blank and nodded slowly. "Yes. The trolls. Back. With me. Cannot form. Complete sentences." I shook my head. "Yeah, so not happening.

Supernaturally

The architect, like other workers in our endeavor, is facing the inevitability of a change of profession: he [sic] will no longer be a builder of forms alone, but a builder of complete ambiances.

The Situationists and the City: A Reader

My hobbies include urinating in empty apple juice bottles and then pouring the contents into kitty litter and trying to get the clumps to form shapes of historical figures.


Sleepwalking is restercise