Top 1200 Life Forms Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The monologue is one of the most difficult and interesting forms of theatre for an actor to learn.

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

People have been willing to accept that the government is lying to us, but they are now more willing to accept the concept of aliens and other life forms. There's just a slew of stuff out there right now. It's been people's closet belief system, and now it's coming out of the closet.

Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment of its institutions through interaction of the different forms of associated life is in so far democratic. Such a society must have a type of education which gives individuals a personal interest in social relationships and control, and the habits of mind which secure social changes without introducing disorder.

Autism doesn't seem to have a seasonal component, unlike some forms of depression.

The Eucharist is not only a particularly intense expression of the reality of the Church's life, but also in a sense its fountainhead. The Eucharist feeds and forms the Church: 'Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread' (1 Cor 10:17, RSV). Because of this vital link with the sacrament of the Body and Blood of the Lord, the mystery of the Church is savored, proclaimed, and lived supremely in the Eucharist.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

I hope that George doesn't internalize her scare tactics. I want to argue with her, tell her that "sins of the flesh" is just a control mechanism -- if you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life. I can't say how many times this tool has been wielded against me, in a variety of forms. But I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation.

What Joe and I get excited by, creatively, is exploring all of the different forms of filmmaking.

When you experiment with new forms of exercise, you stay motivated on a daily basis.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Molokhia as a dish can take many forms, but usually involves a braised meat.

The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.

Let us quake before the great Spirit, Who is my God, Who has made me know God, Who is God there above, and Who forms God here: almighty, imparting manifold gifts, Him Whom the holy choir hymns, Who brings life to those in heaven and on earth, and is enthroned on high, coming from the Father, the divine force, self-commandeered; He is not a Child (for there is one worthy Child of the One who is best), nor is He outside the unseen Godhead, but of identical honor.

I think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.

My work is really simple, actually. I'm just playing with forms of changing.

Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish, every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it.

Over time, years of meditation gave me glimpses of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all life. I experienced that on one level we are alone, separate, apart from everyone and everything; on another level, we are the Self in different disguises, different names and forms, a part of everyone and everything. This experience of interconnectedness is part of spiritual traditions and the perennial wisdom in virtually all religions and cultures.

I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can't conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum theory, it could be there as aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains They could be staring us in the face and we just Don't recognise them. The problem is that we-re looking for something very much like us, assuming that they at least have something like the same mathematics and technology.

Have I said clearly enough that the Community we created is not an end in itself? It is a process of change, continuing in that same process which in an earlier period produced our national forms of life. The sovereign nations of the past can no longer solve the problems of the present: they cannot ensure their own progress or control their own future. And the Community itself is only a stage on the way of the organized world of tomorrow.

Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design.

Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else.

If you do not let go of thinking about forms, you will not understand what I am showing.

God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

If you look at all forms of collectivism, be it communism or fascism, people are reduced to animals.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

Actions are but lifeless forms whose soul is the secret of sincerity in them

There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to achieve.

We can never leave loneliness behind completely - it is part of what forms us.

God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.

My mother was very keen I learn dance and I learnt so many forms.

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run its course—it no longer serves the needs of men or women and in its inextricable linkage to militarism, hierarchy, and racism it threatens the very existence of life on earth. What will come after, what kind of structure will be the foundation for alternate forms of social organization we cannot yet know. We are living in an age of unprecedented transformation. We are in the process of becoming.

What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.

We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. We need to eliminate nationalism and tribalism and become Earthlings. And as Earthlings, we need to recognize that all the other species that live on this planet are also fellow citizens and also Earthlings. This is a planet of incredible diversity of life-forms; it is not a planet of one species as many of us believe.

Of all the art forms that my family dabbles in, writing suits my temperament the most.

All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.

There are several forms of oppari, but cinema largely uses only one format.

If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms.

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.

There is a close meshing with the ritual properties of persons and with the egocentric forms of territoriality.

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.

When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.

From the seed grows a root, then a sprout; from the sprout, the seedling leaves; from the leaves, the stem; around the stem, the branches; at the top, the flower. . . We cannot say that the seed causes the growth, nor that the soil does. We can say that the potentialities for growth lie within the seed, in mysterious life forces, which, when properly fostered, take on certain forms.

Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.