Form Quotes

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song.

The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope in a way that never seems to happen in the privacy of your own four walls. I'm listening to the audience, and they're listening to me.

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Many of their lodges remained as perfect as when occupied. They were made of poles two or three inches in diameter, set up in circular form, and covered with cedar bark.

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts.

Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution.

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.