Quotes of: Shapes Keyword

Finally, in 1888, Cixi approved the Western-style Navy Regulations. It was in endorsing these Regulations that she effectively unveiled China’s first national flag. The country had had no national ensign, until its engagement with the West at the b...

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

The padres set great store by addressing prayer to personal gods: 'Genuine prayer exists only in religions in which there is a God as a person and a shape and endowed with a will.' That was stated by a famous Protestant. The anarch does not want to h...

Eumeswil

To consume the best for yourself and give the crumbs to God is blasphemy. A heart that truly worships is a heart that gives its best to God in time and substance. A heart that truly worships God gives generously to the causes of God---causes that God...

The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

Calling on his inherent magic, he pictured a shape less conspicuous in the mortal realm. An instant later he stood before his companion in his new body and found himself surprisingly comfortable in the denim and cotton garments that came with it. Per...

Hard as a Rock

But, of course, what mattered most of all was my deep-seated hatred of authority, my monstrous individualism, my lawlessness. No word in my vocabulary expressed deeper hatred than the word INTERFERENCE. But Christianity placed at the centre what then...

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

College feminists made fun of skyscrapers, saying they were phallic symbols. They said the same thing about space rockets, even though, if you stopped to think about it, rockets were shaped the way they were not because of phallocentrism but because ...

The Marriage Plot

The universe is so unhuman, that is, it goes its way with so little thought of man. He is but an incident, not an end. We must adjust our notions to the discovery that things are not shaped to him, but that he is shaped to them. The air was not made ...

The Light of Day (Volume 11); Religious Discussions and Criticisms from the Naturalist's Point of View

When the Starbursts cost a cent apiece, the average number of candies per customer was 3.5, but when the price went down to zero, the average went down to 1.1 per customer. The students limited themselves to a large degree when the candy was free. In...

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

As an introverted person, I struggle even writing about community because I know how difficult it often is for me to walk across the room to converse with people. People often drain the energy out of me, and too often I prefer to protect myself rathe...

Why Holiness Matters: We've Lost our Way--But We Can Find it Again

The strings in her mind grew flatter, calmer. The shapes in the hologrid had changed. She heard the man's words, and yet she didn't; the words were not what was really important. And wasn't that right? Words had never been important, only strings, an...

Nancy Kress

Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness that the lies and old decisions upon which the compulsion is based become apparent and fall away. When you no longer believe ...

Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I’m in better shape than they are.

Cat's Eye

There is an empty space next to you in the backseat of the station wagon. Make it the shape of everything you need. Now say hello.

Crush

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of suble air.

On Cats

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

Dreams of the Compass Rose

Deep down, it's all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.

Gods of the Jungle Planet

As the caterpillar undergoes transformation within the cocoon before emerging as a butterfly; likewise, life experiences shape character.

Babygirl

Locking eyes with a shape-shifter was aggressive. Very aggressive. One generally didn't do that unless one wanted to fight. .

Black Beast

The color and shape of flowers are a precise record of what bees find attractive

Beauty: The Value of Values

There are great slender models, great tall models, Amazonian models, great busty models - my point is models of all shapes and sizes, age, ethnic background should be embraced and celebrated.

Erin O'Connor

It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.

Israel Horovitz