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“In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state”
Charles de Montesquieu
“That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal has neither name nor shape. It is the one essence, the one primal spirit. Essence and life cannot be seen. They are contained in the light of heaven. The light of heaven cannot be seen. It is contained in the two eyes.”
Bertrand Russell
“The shape of things to come.”
H. G. Wells
“Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball.”
Patrick Leigh Fermor
“The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has”
Michelangelo
“He's overweight, yes, but he's in great shape, he's strong.”
Doug Weight
“Either very curved and shaped to a woman's body or cut straight from the shoulder and boxy and short.”
Calvin Klein
“I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change, and that passe' abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity”
Camille Paglia
“We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.”
Charles Stanley
“It's shaped like a two-headed BABY,”
Britney Spears