Form Quotes - page 3

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. (Edmund Burke)
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. View quote
Aleister Crowley
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. View quote
Lionel Trilling
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule. View quote
Hashemi Rafsanjani
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it. View quote
Helen Hayes
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. View quote
Julia Child
I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form. (Morarji Desai)
The highest form of vanity is love of fame. View quote
George Santayana
I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form. View quote
Julie Taymor
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. View quote
Mary McCarthy
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism. View quote
P. D. James
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. View quote
Gene Fowler
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. View quote
Aneurin Bevan
I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form. View quote
Anish Kapoor
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. View quote
E. L. Doctorow
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Delay is the deadliest form of denial. (C. Northcote Parkinson)
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. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. View quote
Charles Lamb
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. View quote
Samuel Beckett
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