#forms

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#being #capable #desires #intense #into

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#been #civil #except #forms #mankind

Our problem is not adopting reforms, which we will do without question. It is not reaching an objective, which we will meet. But it is finding an end to the recession. ↗

— Yiannis Stournaras

#end #finding #meet #objective #our

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#farmer #platforms #republican #says #vital

Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical. ↗

— Kenzo Tange

#basic #forms #logical #must #nevertheless

I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law. ↗

— Andrew Thomas

#before #community #corrupt #god #i

As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#clocks #covering #earth #endangering #evolution

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#forms #just #plain #transform

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

— Francis Bacon

#attempt #fashion #forms #intercourse #living

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

— Honore de Balzac

#form #forms #habits #life #soul