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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living...

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Quote by Francis Bacon about fashion, art, magic

I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time.

Quote by Erykah Badu about art, magic, time

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

Quote by Douglas Adams about meetings, pleasure, life

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the...

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about habits, soul, life

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Quote by Aristotel about people, happiness, man, life

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about force, police, miracle, imagination, life, contentment

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Quote by John Bradshaw about lie, essential, reality, pain, thinking, truth, life

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is...

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Quote by Jane Austen about self-control

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that...

Quote by Winston Churchill about democracy, sin, time, perfection, world

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass...

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about prejudice

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

Quote by Michael Jackson about creation, present, life

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about grace, beauty, feelings

The bus schedule should be known as one of the most...

The bus schedule should be known as one of the most exquisitly creative and vividly imaginary forms of fiction ever devised by man.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cars, fiction, man

When there are two possible forms to fill out on any...

When there are two possible forms to fill out on any given matter, the wrong form is always filled out at first.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about bad

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about bad, infinite

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

Quote by Walter Pater about experience, objects, reality, action

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

Quote by Walter Pater about pasion, activity, sadness, common sense, sense, love, life

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

Quote by Walter Pater about activity, culture, age, olderness

There are still a lot of cases in the world where you order something and then you see delivery will be in 8-12 weeks. This is because of the faxes and forms that still exist.

Quote by John Patrick about order, world, contentment

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of...

Quote by Papa John Paul II about nation, slavery, temptation, reality, man

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