Shapes Quotes

As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy.

My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped.

The truths that are found in the Bible are universal truths. And it shapes who you are and guides you throughout your life.

The one continuing problem in my life has always had the shape of just one question: What amusing thing can I do next?

I'm grateful for the road. It gets me in shape. I feel like I'm 25 years old after ther first or second week.

I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.

There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape who I am.

I train a lot of people on the side as a personal trainer, but I still work out myself to keep in great shape.

I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

It's always great to have a family member who knows exactly what you're going through in every way, shape, and form, and I'm blessed to have that in my sister.

Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

We were coming from a completely different place, which was saying "sound" is what you want to define it as, and you can shape it into music in whichever way you want.

It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces

Shape your coat according to your cloth.

You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.

I knew that maybe I couldn't be playing again, but I just wanted to get in physical shape.

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.

What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.

No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes.

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

The choices of one shape the futures of all.

Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.

The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership - not natural or social "forces" - are the prime movers in human affairs.

I've always kept my body in shape and I will continue to always keep my body in shape.

Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.

When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to think.

Each of us has the potential to contribute... You have a great opportunity to make a new shape of the world.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.

Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.

It's not a sprint to get in shape.

I care a lot about Colorado. I consider it a state that is helping to shape the future.

The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color.

Warriors use their intent and will to shape their lives. All of their actions are conscious, intentional, and complete.

Treat yourself like an overweight, out of shape person and that's what you will be. Why not train and treat yourself like an athlete?

All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

I'm probably in better shape now than I was when I was in my 20s.

Your body is like a machine, and if you don't keep it in shape, it holds you back. You don't want anything holding you back, especially yourself.

Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if something bad and foolish wants to shape you!

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.