| "As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present." »Maitri Upanishads |
| "In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility." »Roosevelt, Eleanor |
| "Ideas shape the course of history." »John Maynard Keynes |
| "Order is the shape upon which beauty depends." »Pearl Buck |
| "The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape." »William Shakespeare |
| "The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back." »Franklin P. Jones |
| "Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it." »Walter Frederick Mondale |
| "It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies." »Bette Davis |
| "The artist is a recepticle for the emotions that come from all over the place from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web." »Pablo Picasso |
| "Life ... would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions." »Helen Hayes |
| "Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon." »E. M. Forster |
| "One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings." »Franklin Thomas |
| "I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity." »Camille Paglia |
| "Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true." »Lester R Bittel |
| "Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America." »Theodore Harold White |
| "Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit." »Ansel Adams |
| "The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself." »Thomas a Kempis |
| "Angels and ministers of grace defend us.Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned,Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,Be thy intents wicked, or charitable,Thou com'st in such a questionable shape,That I will speak to thee." »William Shakespeare |
| "My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future. (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "Hamlet Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel Polonius By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet Or like a whale Polonius Very like a whale." »William Shakespeare |
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