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There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

William Shakespeare

As our country grapples with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Constitution Day offers young people an opportunity to learn how a cornerstone of our democracy -- the concept of federalism -- shapes our lives.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives.

John Keats

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

Hortense Calisher

We have new shapes in woven satin of course, combinations of velvet and satin that are coordinated with shoes. We have really a variety of evening handbags that are very exciting.

Laura Moltedo

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

You'll see dogs here of all shapes and sizes. As long as they're on a lead and have been vaccinated, they're certainly welcome. In fact, we encourage it.

Jack Nugent

'There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day.It is always the same shape, only very numerous.And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern.'

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Often, I would paint from a photograph, or from a magazine layout. Photography has taught me to see shapes. Before, I only saw a pretty flower. Now, I see shadows and things behind the flower that form a special shape. A macro lens allows me to photograph the things most people never see.

Jim Schupp

As the number of obese children in the United States increases, it is essential to develop child safety seats that can protect children of all sizes and shapes.

Lara Trifiletti

Beauty comes in all ages, colors, shapes, and forms. God never makes junk.

Kathy Ireland

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The end of the series has massive ramifications. This is one of those things that comes along that shapes things for times to come. ... There's very much a pre-Civil War and post-Civil War Marvel Universe coming at you.

Mark Millar

The biggest reason people use Macromedia Fireworks with Photoshop are its object-oriented controls, which let you quickly drag in a rectangle and apply a style to create a Web button or banner. Now you can do that in Photoshop and even create more complex shapes for buttons.

Kevin Connor

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not be separated from the man.

Andre Segovia

There are slow geochemical processes that can create spherical shapes and filamentous forms. The 'eye of the beholder' may guide us where to look...but that is not proof.

Peter Schultz

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

John Sterling

There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.

Frank Harris

The shapes are very elongated and lean. My sweaters kind of go beyond the hip. They're very, very skinny. A lot of the jackets are cardigan shapes and again, they're long and skinny.

Anna Sui

It was so different than anything we had ever seen, much less decorated. We soon realized we had to forget everything we had ever learned about decorating. The scale was huge, totally open, and the space was very cold looking but offered some wonderful geometric shapes.

Steve Siegel

It's all kinds of shapes, colors and sexes. I've gotten every story there is.

Chris Nasr

I always do diamonds, ... ... but I don't do large stones. I try to use non-traditional shapes.

Angela Cummings

Nudity comes in all different shapes and sizes, and people will see that at the event.

Kelly Stevens

We needed to retain the elements of the old label so as not to alienate the existing consumer base, but by paring them down to their most basic shapes and forms, the same elements become sleek and modern.

Janet Kinghorn

Everything I do, I do out of instinct. I love to show shapes. I like to work around the waist, the hips.

Olivier Theyskens

I've always drawn. Through drawing, I got into building things I would contemplate and sketch out shapes in my head.

Bruce Bulger

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

Rene Dubois

You used to be able to get endless shapes, endless rocker styles from Clark Foam.

Barry Barrett

To this day, I don't know what shapes a Hollywood career.

Dorothy Mcguire

New shapes and the new fresh woman. We are talking about this woman, and we are looking for this woman for tomorrow.

Francois Girbaud

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.

James Thomson

His work is organic, so it compliments the garden. To me, the shapes and colors are as if you boiled down a rain forest or a coral reef.

Mark Maunder

It is critical that the educators and academic programs are recognized for their excellence and innovation in preparing future professionals. Their work not only benefits the overall industry, but it shapes the future of the document management and communications marketplace as well.

Mike Jackson

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

R. D. Laing

In the beginning, when I lived in apartments, it was a necessity. But now, even when I have a choice, I'm partial to container gardening. I like the different shapes and colors and designs of pots. I realize that, for me, it's as much about the containers as it is about the plants.

Benjamin Liss

We've developed a world-class facility in our York headquarters where customers can come to explore shapes, materials, and color, as well as other aspects of packaging design. Our customers will be able to brainstorm ideas with our design team in order to provide us with their thoughts and guidance.

Sheldon Yourist

SPR volumes are generous and the quality looks fine, so the real issue for refiners is how that prospective purchase shapes up against alternatives in terms of certainty, price and availability.

Frank Verrastro

The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

Marcel Duchamp

Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.

Wally Lamb

Landscape shapes culture.

Terry Tempest Williams

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

Katherine Paterson

We have the same smiles, eye shapes and body types. The similarity is amazing to me. My mom always said my features came from my donor side.

Kelli Dail

It's an interesting example of the way war shapes a culture.

Jenny Thompson

The media has enormous power. The media is undergoing huge changes now. It seemed like it's time to step back and look at how the media shapes our lives and our perceptions of reality.

Thomas Morgan

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Georgia O'Keeffe

The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.

Tom Barrett

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

Bob Riley

The straps are adjustable, but not too long. They can be short, very short, close to the body in very square shapes. The leather is so soft that it falls very beautifully.

Alessandra Taddei

But the thing the coaches can't ignore is she's so talented with her feet. That's the great thing about soccer, it takes all shapes and sizes.

Dave Todd

We knew this was a really important game for the playoffs and we'll see how it shapes out over the weekend.

Cam Prock

The shapes are more angular, more aviator in feeling. A little bit larger and oversize, ... They're also doing wonderful combinations, mixing the acetates with metals, and wonderful colored lenses are bigger than ever again.

Marc Jacobs

Media coverage both shapes and reflects public opinion. The press coverage in the run-up to the war was very pro-war and the country was very pro-war.

Andrew Kohut

When we come into the season every position accept pitchers and catchers is open. We're going to have to see how the batting order shapes up.

Lonnie Hicks

Usually we only see a thick vapor layer from Earth, but with our camera we can look into it, see shapes in the clouds and a spiral round the pole.

Horst Uwe Keller

Denim has a luxury feel with added details, updated shapes and a variety of washes.

Francine Crocker

We have some great entertainers coming from Pittsburgh who will be wandering through the crowd. We have jugglers, and a unicycle rider, a stilt walker, and a lady who (shapes) balloons.

Sheila Mechling

There's a definite inspiration from the art of Mondrian, Kandinsky and Rothko. This translates nicely into upbeat colors and shapes.

Mario Bandiera

The contacts helped me see basic shapes of things and basic forms; but I couldn't see any real details. And they hurt so bad. I called them the little circles of death.

Cyndee Williams

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

Joan Didion

He was fascinated by how much he could learn just from the shapes and colors in ice. His enthusiasm was infectious, and I became fascinated as well.

Peter Wasilewski

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Laurence J. Peter

The new S80 is about evolutionary design. All the shapes and materials represent a continuous development of our design language.

Steve Mattin

Testosterone is linked to masculine face shapes and it also affects behavior. Also, the face displays our emotions and over time emotional expressions may become written in the face.

Tony Little

I like figure-ground (relationships), ... I like shapes. So, gosh darn it, I was going to put a great big turquoise shape on a great big vermillion background. No getting around it.

Peter Plagens

People are always accusing her and wanting to know why she's obsessed with sexual parts. She refuses to even admit that these things are directly representational, and they aren't, really, in a sense. They're suggestive of lots of different organic shapes and natural forms.

Eik Kahng

We see compulsive gamblers of all sizes and shapes.

Edward Looney