Quotes of: Formative Keyword

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

Bertrand Russell

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

Barbara Tuchman

I cry a lot. Usually once a day. I think it's one of the most profound forms of human expression.

Bill Viola

Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.

Bob Woodward

It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.

Carol Bellamy

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

Charles Baudelaire

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

Constantin Brancusi

I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.

Gary Numan

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

George Orwell

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

Gene Tierney

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

Hannah Arendt

My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums.

Hamish Bowles

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

Hermann Broch

Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by social withdrawal, by repetitive behaviors and by some kind of focal attention in its classic form. Basically, it's an inability to relate to others.

Harvey V. Fineberg

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

James Madison

I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.

Jack O'Connell

I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.

James Randi

Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.

Jim Ramstad

I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.

Joe Rogan

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

James Thurber

In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.

David Dinkins