Form Quotes - page 6

We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception. (John Rawls)

We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex.

Margaret Mead

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

Lionel Trilling

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

G. K. Chesterton

Music is the strongest form of magic.

Marilyn Manson

I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.

Jim Henson

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

Aaron Copland

Language is a form of organized stutter.

Marshall McLuhan

In Tetrad form, the artefact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.

Marshall McLuhan

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Maya Angelou

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it. (Elvis Costello)

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

Alexander McQueen

I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man.

Samuel Adams

I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the Koran. Islamism is just Islam in its most pure form.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels.

Nikos Kazantzakis

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

Jerome K. Jerome

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

George Washington

As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.

Oliver Goldsmith

Acting is a form of confession.

Tallulah Bankhead

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Edith Sitwell

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated. (Johan Huizinga)

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

Ralph Ellison

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

Don DeLillo

It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

Don DeLillo

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Earl Warren

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