Quotes having the keyword Mould
It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.
by Anita Brookner (Historian, English , born in 1938) keywords: anyone, conventional, go, home, more, mould, never, out, phased, pity, will , women It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
by Samuel Butler (Poet, British , born in 1835) keywords: actions, conscious, less, lives, mainly, mould, our, spring, those, thoughts, us , which What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
by Willa Cather (Author, American , born in 1873) keywords: any, art, away, element, elusive, hurrying, imprison, itself, life, lose, moment, mould, past, running, shining, stop, strong, sweet, too, us , which It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
by Edward Gibbon (Historian, English , born in 1737) keywords: action, always, been, cast, deposit, ear, given, had, last, long, memory, mould, paragraph, pen, polish, practice, single, suspend, till, try , work If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
by William Godwin (Writer, English , born in 1756) keywords: against, argument, because, coercion, could, doubt, employs, his, mould, pretends, punish, punishes, purposes, really, strong, weak , would I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.
by Mark Haddon (Novelist, English , born in 1962) keywords: always, am, asking, atheist, big, church, come, did, edit, find, hymns, meaning, mould, myself, questions, religious, sing, them, very , where Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.
by Larry Hagman (Actor, American , born in 1931) keywords: assets, being, broke, great, humble, made, mould, think , well No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.
by Kim Jong Il (Leader, North Korean , born in 1942) keywords: any, better, capitalist, class, come, destroys, faction, influence, korea, mould, movement, other, our, party, poison, products, same, than, working , worse If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
by Thomas Kempis (Writer, German , born in 1380) keywords: cannot, entirely, expect, how, liking, mould, other, wish, would, your , yourself Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
by Henry David Thoreau (Author, American , born in 1817) topics: Nature keywords: am, earth, intelligence, leaves, mould, myself, partly, shall , vegetable As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
by Lech Walesa (Activist, Polish , born in 1943) keywords: affairs, any, anybody, aware, complicated, contemporary, danger, decide, does, fate, fully, future, mould, nation, our, own, pose, responsibility, right, situation , world There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
by Virginia Woolf (Author, British , born in 1970) keywords: arm, brains, clothes, hearts, liking, make, may, mould, much, our, support, take, their, them, tongues, us, view , wear
