Quotes of: Sincerest-form Keyword

I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence.

The Hunger Games

Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.

The Art of War

Account books form a narrative as engaging as any tale of sea monsters or cannibals.

Bring Up the Bodies

Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo.

Breaking Dawn

Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line.

Brideshead Revisited

Assuming is a form of giving away your power to another regarding an outcome that concerns you.

The Book of Simple Human Truths

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

Andy Warhol

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

Ben Shapiro

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

Daryl Hall

A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.

Edward Sapir

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

Frederick Jackson Turner

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

John le Carre

Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

Matthew Simpson

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

Walter Pater

The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.

William Graham Sumner

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

Ariel Dorfman

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

Sandra Day O'Connor

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

William Temple

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Alvar Aalto

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

Peter Zumthor

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

Anatole Broyard