Form Quotes

Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.

All teens are in trouble in one form or another.

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the "I," under another form, continues the task of existence.

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.

There is no greater level and form of belief than believing in yourself.

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.

Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

Healthy ideas of both left and right, along with totally new ideas, must form a growing united front.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordinary Georgians. They are proposals that directly effect the lives of the people we serve.