Quotes of: Formative Keyword

Morality existed only in action. It arose out of action: was formed and tested in action: expressed itself in action. That was why we mustn't cheapen it with words

The Sleep of Reason

I manage to hold the poker face when she submits to dominance, to the summons, and swans into my arms, pressing her quivering form against mine when she embraces me.

Sveta

Mortals cannot perceive me with the physical eye whilst in my pure form unless it is of my choosing, for it would result in fatality, which leaves the question as to why you are an exception.

Talisman of El

Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention.

Todas las familias felices

Choice forms the divider which is responsible for the formation of all futures that can be possible.

Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

He had pulled out of that grief, eventually – out from under the suffocating weight of it. Suffering had formed him: made him silent and deliberate, thoughtful: deep.

The Orchardist

Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?

I didn't begin life hating my grandmother. Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.

Possible Side Effects

Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its form alters my vision of the world.

Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland

The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity—which is what, more or less, all teenage girls are.

The Possibility of an Island

Life lessons are not journeys traveled in straight lines but are crossroads formed years and miles apart.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.

Rebel Angels

[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words the fiery chain that bound it all together.

Radiant Days

For the first time she called it sex. With no time or desire to analyze her words, he shook off an unidentifiable hollow sensation forming in his middle.

Temporary

Perhaps elements like tenacity and humility combine to form a heroic compound.

Turn Left At The Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey

That's how it started: a series of small hurts and excuses between two people that built up slowly, widening over time to form a vast and yawning divide.

Terrorscape

I know a lot about forming personal connections with people. Not from, you know, personal interaction or anything, but from reading about it alone, in silence.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.

Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society

Now he understood clearly that roads do divide, at the crossroad there is a choice, and blinding oneself to it is a form of choosing, too; it is the fool's way, the coward's way.

The Untold Tale