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As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about objects, present, self-control, fire, fire brigade

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Quote by Winston Churchill

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings...

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

Quote by Winston Churchill

I didn't smoke I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now, we worked every day that keeps you in pretty good shape, we could go for a long time in one take. You had to be in good shape with Gene Kelly.

Quote by Donald O'Connor about opinion, smoke, good, good luck, day, time

The future can be shaped after our own will. Life is a...

The future can be shaped after our own will. Life is a clay shaped by will as a clay.

Quote by Liviu Rebreanu about future, life

As the births of living creatures are at first...

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Quote by Francis Bacon about time

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please...

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Quote by Francis Bacon about objects, memory

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about problems

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Quote by Ansel Adams about originality, force, police, creation, fight, human imperfections, spirit, man

I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.

I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.

Quote by Oksana Baiul

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Quote by Joseph Addison about patience, real estate

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

Quote by Drew Barrymore about body, god, work

You have a sense of responsibility, and for me that means...

You have a sense of responsibility, and for me that means keeping my voice in shape.

Quote by Michael Bolton about voice, common sense, sense

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about creation, intelligence, children

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we...

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Quote by Albert Camus about people, personality, life

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

Quote by Bill Gates about tools, communication, creativity, computers

I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was...

I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.

Quote by Richard Gere about old, olderness

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

Quote by William Godwin about human imperfections

It's not really about food or the body shape, it's just a...

It's not really about food or the body shape, it's just a way of dealing or coping with life-that's just for me.

Quote by Geri Halliwell about food, body, life

The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in...

Quote by Owen Hart about fight, work

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