As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.
There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. For that is the time when a man's intelligence itself, his greatest implement, is being formed. But not only his intelligence; the full totality of his psychic powers.
I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.
That is our vocation: to convert the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced.
There is one universal law that has been formed, or at least adoptedby the majority of mankind. That law is justice. Justice forms the cornerstone of each nation's law.
For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.
You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.
None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been.
It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.
He spoke so slowly, cobwebs could have formed between his words.
It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding.
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
The faith I was born into formed me.
The moment we make up our minds that we are going on with this determination to exalt God overall, we step out of the worldís parade. . . We acquire a new viewpoint; a new and different psychology will be formed within us; a new power will begin to surprise us by its upsurgings and its outgoings.
Out of many things a great heap will be formed. [Lat. , De multis grandis acervus erit. ]
The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society
He was weeping. Although 'weeping' really is to small a word for the activity the kind had undertaken. Tears were cascading from his eyes. A small puddle had formed at his feet. I am not exaggerating. The king, it seemed, was intent on crying himself a river.
I overcame my fears and troubles simply by praying and learning to calm down when scary things were happening - I formed certain mantras which helped me become pro-active vs. reactive, such as : What's the problem? What's the solution? Time Energy Money What do I get? What do I give? Shrink It. Fix it. Grow it.
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.