Formed Quotes

Once an opinion is formed, there will be attachment-abhorrence. A person without opinion is also without attachment-abhorrence. — Dada Bhagwan

Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote. — Louise Slaughter

The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with. — Samuel Johnson

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality. — Benjamin Disraeli

You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. — Mary McCarthy

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us. — Frank Herbert

People cultivate these fully formed personalities. — Kristen Stewart

Not all friendships take a long time to grow and deepen. Some are formed in an instant. — Robin Lee Hatcher

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. — Anne Tyler

For us, the universe goes only as far as light has travelled in the billions of years since the universe was formed. — Bill Bryson

I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed. — Jack Bowman

In this way, through experience they will be formed adequately, will be encouraged, and will be capable of rendering service to God. — Vincent De Paul

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. — George Berkeley

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. — Charles Caleb Colton

My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests. — Philip Warren Anderson

This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs. — Dante Alighieri

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die. — Lord Byron

It's our culture, Christian history, that's what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We're just built that way. — Gerhard Richter

Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable. — John Paul Warren

Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

International League of Peace and Freedom, was formed in 1867 in Geneva. Its — Mark Kurlansky

Swatches of color to close the wounds. Lines to tie it down. Layers upon layers, until the sound of their voices formed a hum. — Adrienne Wilder

A person's integrity develops early in life. Once formed, it is difficult to alter, change, or improve. — Scott K. Edinger

Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do. — Albert L. Gray

Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth. — Virgil

A concrete love is a mass of emotion formed into a compound mixture
of affection, care, desire and expectation. — Munia Khan

Her milk sprayed across the skies and formed what he today know as the Milky Way. — Birgit Amadori

I long to see Christ's life formed in me. I want to become the person God had in mind when He created me. — Jean Fleming

Maybe women would finally be considered fully formed human beings, instead of off-brand men with defective genitals. Maybe — Lindy West

My ideas about God were formed in childhood and did not keep abreast of my growing knowledge in other disciplines. I — Karen Armstrong

Without harmony in the State, no military expedition can be undertaken; without harmony in the army, no battle array can be formed. — Sun Tzu

Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life. — Mark Nepo

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad. — Ron Perlman

He is a gay man, my dear, to say no more; and such are the companions we wish when we join a party avowedly formed for pleasure. — Hannah Webster Foster

There are more lines formed than things worth waiting for. — Robert Breault

No weapon formed against you will prosper. But make no mistake, the weapon will be formed. — Christine Caine

She cried so hard her tears formed a river, and tears of grief always run into the river Styx. — Janette Rallison

Habit-forming products often start as nice-to-haves, but once the habit is formed, they become must-haves. — Nir Eyal

Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon. — Philip Sidney

[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one. — George Washington

On the correctly formed pubescent girl, a Speedo looked wonderful. When it was wet, it was an incitement to riot. — Clive James

Our relationships with people are formed by small moments - and relationships are crucial in business. — Tom Rath

Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding. — Sarah Fielding

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored. — Lord Byron

Sturm and drang formed my character. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The Word of God conceived in the heart, formed by the tongue, and spoken out of the mouth is creative power. — Charles Capps

I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you. — Richard Harris

I would try desperately to think about my childhood, but I couldn't. The war memories had formed a barrier that I had to break in order to think — Ishmael Beah

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me ... by newspapers and the Bible. — Van Wyck Brooks

Books formed the basis of my world, my unit of measure was the printed word, — Magda Szabo

But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin. — Voltaire

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. — David Mitchell

In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed by multiple narratives. — Dinaw Mengestu

Sure we are all made by some secret Power, who formed the earth and sea, the air and sky. — Daniel Defoe

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it. — William Blackstone

The FDA has formed a rapid response team. — Andrew Von Eschenbach

The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world. — Frederick Lenz

You don't become a fully-formed human as a female, or even a male, until you're at least 30. — Kurt Braunohler

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are. — Paulo Freire

Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures. — J. Paul Getty

She and Jack had formed her of snow and birch boughs and frosty wild grass. — Eowyn Ivey

The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society — Pope Francis

I formed a band called Atomic Rooster. The Atomic Rooster was sort of an underground cult band, sort of psychedelic. We did very well. — Carl Palmer

I realized that meals, too, are a spiritual service and that meat, bread, and wine are the raw materials from which spirit is formed. — Nikos Kazantzakis

The wall of my heart is thin and the beat irregular but a new heart is being formed in me. — Jonah Books

When God speaks faith has to connect to His Word because if you allow only your feelings to connect no root can be formed. — Mz Liz

Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay? — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Darkness isn't the matter from which the Antichrist was formed, but intelligence. Foreknowledge. — Andrew Pyper

It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish. — Simonides Of Ceos

It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterward. — Thomas Jefferson

The Egyptian word Pir-em-us meant to them something of great vertical height. From this the Greek form Pyramis, or the plural Pyramides was formed. — H. Spencer Lewis

She was looking at him as if he'd just dropped fully formed from the sky. — Julia Quinn

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed. — Philip G. Zimbardo

The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God. — Rafael Cruz

In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master. — Vasily Smyslov

When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough. — Agnetha Faltskog

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. — Desiderius Erasmus

Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd. — Michel De Montaigne

I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed. — David Nevins

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower. — Sylvia Plath

A true champion is not only formed in victory. To be defeated makes you learn. — Renan Barao

I'm an avid watcher of the Nat Geo channel, where I watch shows about how the planets are formed, and shows about moons, quasars, black holes. — Mekhi Phifer

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy. — Napoleon Hill

The consistency of the Old Testament warnings for the covenant community formed a natural bridge to the New Testament warnings. — Scot McKnight

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be. — Philip Yancey

In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. — Tahereh Mafi

Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance. — Marion LeRoy Burton

I personally adore origin stories - they're so intriguing, learning what shaped and formed a character. — Keri Russell

I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to. — Rob Morrow

Her paintings formed a visual diary, an outward manifestation of her inward dialog that was, all too often, a scream of pain. — Gerry Souter

The story of two dreams is a coincidence, a line drawn by chance, like the shapes of lions or horses that are sometimes formed by clouds. — Jorge Luis Borges

Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years. — Mahatma Gandhi

Like an impressionist's stroke on a canvas, up-close formed a new image. This image was vibrant and alive. This image was not the woman who — Ava Harrison

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them. — Voltaire

Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and our conscious choices. — Flannery O'Connor

Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright. — Moby

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. — Ross Macdonald

The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids. — Michael Behe

For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 'And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived in the transgression. — Margaret Atwood