You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
Were I to personify Justice, instead of presenting her blind, I would denominate her the goddess of fire. . . Of unbending integrity Justice should feel, hear and see; but truth alone should be the polar star by which she should shape her movements, and equity only should constrain her determinations.
There are all sorts of things embodied in the LEGO brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour. . . It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.
This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.
As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer.
There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
He only is great at heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts. He only is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career. And he is greatest who does the most of all these things and does them best.
Political correctness gets in the way of all too many things in this country of ours, I am not a subscriber of political correctness by any means, shape or form.
Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation. When something's let go of, it circles; and though we are rarely the center of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous curve.
If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.
Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
He had never really speculated about this before, since demons came in all shapes and sizes. Indeed, some of them came in more than one shape or size all by themselves, such as O'Dear, the Demon of People Who Look in Mirrors and Think They're Overweight, and his twin, O'Really, the Demon of People Who Look in Mirrors and Think They're Slim When They're Not.
Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.
Simply put, we have to be smart about how we use our power. Not because we have less of it indeed, the might of our military, the size of our economy, the influence of our diplomacy, and the creative energy of our people remain unrivaled. No, it's because as the world has changed, so too have the levers of power that can most effectively shape international affairs.
I cannot conceive of a greater wounding of the heart of Christ than to pay reverence to anything in the shape of a cross, or to bow before a crucifix!
Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired shape.
I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.
Early in my career, I decided I never wanted to get out of shape.
When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements.
There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape who I am.