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I have my 1973 Citroen DS 23 Pallas. I drive it all the time. It's still the most beautiful shape in the world. — Brian Johnson

But a story was invisible, infinite, it had no size or shape. Information. It could fill the world or fit inside a fingernail. — Jennifer Egan

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. — Salman Rushdie

We shape our self
to fit this world
and by the world
are shaped again — David Whyte

Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape. — A.S. Byatt

I must shape my own coat according to my cloth, but it will not be after the fashion of this world, God willing, but fit for me. — Arbella Stuart

Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows. — Roger Scruton

Our lips are full of praise, but our hearts are far removed from the prophets we all claim. That's why the world is in the shape that it's in. — Louis Farrakhan

Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH — Mos Def

Names are the shape of the world, and a man who can speak them is on the road to power — Patrick Rothfuss

Women have helped shape our world, yet still do not receive the recognition and compensation they deserve. — Colleen Hanabusa

A clear and focused mind will last a lifetime. Getting your mind in shape is nothing less than the key to sustainable success in the world. — Russell Simmons

He'd watched the world change around him, civilizations rise and fall, and although he could have anything, anyone, he wanted her. — Lisa Kessler

The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters — Thomas Cahill

What was a shadow, after all, but a shape in the moving world reduced to a projection of possibilities? — Yoon Ha Lee

As we use media, they shape intellectual and social ecosystems that in turn shape the way we see the world. — Kyle Tennant

The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Life did not take over the world by combat,
but by networking. — Lynn Margulis

The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world. — John F. Kennedy

To shape the soul of a young girl, all the nuns in the world are not equal to one mother. — Victor Hugo

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape. — Paul Virilio

Women's particular experiences continue to shape not just their points of view but their actions, in the United States and around the world. — Dee Dee Myers

Masks reveal the shape of your soul and the state of the world and, in today's world, everyone wears a mask. — Chloe Thurlow

It might sound fantastic, but when we bother to look, it's hard to deny that our day-to-day choices shape the world. — Jonathan Safran Foer

We'll build our own world in the shape of us. — Kelly Moran

Not sexy so much as angelic, like all the world's light had gotten together and arranged itself into the shape of a face. — David Foster Wallace

If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151) — Malcolm Gladwell

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe i shall, in some shape or other, always exist. — Benjamin Franklin

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world. — Derrick Jensen

Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its form alters my vision of the world. — Stefanie Brook Trout

Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world. — Cormac McCarthy

She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums. — Patrick Rothfuss

The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the future. — Polixeni Papapetrou

We are selfish, my illness and I. We think only of ourselves. We shape the world around us into messages, into secret whispers spoken only for us. — Nathan Filer

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world. — Ray Bradbury

I would say the world's in terrible shape, but I'm afraid the world would say, 'Look who's talking!' — Cass Elliot

Maybe the kinds of people who try to shape the world feel like they're smarter than chaos itself. — Hugh Howey

We live in a world of media that are constantly telling us it is only the shape of your body that matters to how attractive you are, and that's silly. — Guy Branum

The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being stretched and looped and twisted out of shape. — Daniel Keyes

The world is more malleable than you think, and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. — Bono

Dreams shape the world — Neil Gaiman

I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not the most in shape person in the world. — Ruben Studdard

People could bear so much, but Simon did not know how much of the original you was left when the world had twisted you into a whole different shape. — Cassandra Clare

A bit of shape and form has disappeared from the world, increasing the amount of nothingness. — Haruki Murakami

I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing. — Simone De Beauvoir

Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect. — Kim Edwards

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. — Orison Swett Marden

Each of us has the potential to contribute ... You have a great opportunity to make a new shape of the world. — Dalai Lama

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out. — Bertrand Russell

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in. — Robert Collier

Opinion rules the world, but in the long run it is the philosophers who shape opinion — Voltaire

A poet's work ... to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep. — Salman Rushdie

If you wanted to, Safiya, you could bend and shape the world. — Susan Dennard

A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb the gallop of events. — Mikhail Gorbachev

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes."
"The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape. — Dean Koontz

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty. — Cormac McCarthy

Keep writing and let the world roll on by.
Take the madness of reality and shape it into something worth sharing. — Peter James West

Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's made me want to find a hole in the world, in the shape of me, and just fill it up — Hannah

The world is lightening, taking shape, and turning to color. — Markus Zusak

The Orange Revolution was a powerful example of democracy around the world. The people of Ukraine are continuing to shape their own future. — Scott McClellan

In the dance world, you have to have a certain muscular shape; you have to have long limbs and willowy shoulders. It's hard to have breasts. — Sarah Hay

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important. — Patrick Rothfuss

To be an artist is to take responsibility for the world's destiny. You shape it by your vision. — Laurence Gartel

The world is a parable-the habitation of symbols-the phantoms of spiritual things immortal shown in material shape. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults. — Chris Hemsworth

One cannot shape the world without being reshaped in the process. Each gain of power requires its own sacrifice. — Phil Hine

We never shape the world . . . the world shapes us. — Toni Morrison

If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world. — Kofi Annan

Only because of ignorance could he shape the world so fearlessly — Orson Scott Card

I would shape the world to fit the music in my soul. I — S. Jae-Jones

And I know what I told my father was true: let us taste the world, and we'll do whatever it takes to shape it into our home. — Beth Revis

Only a fool believes that his actions don't shape the world. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Stories help shape the way we see ourselves in the world. They help tell us who we can be and what we can achieve. — Nicola Yoon

Stories shape the world. — Lance Conrad

We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape. — Alice Walker

If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today. — Fareed Zakaria

Then all the charm
Is broken
all that phantom-world so fair
Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread,
And each mis-shape the other. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge