#shape

I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide. ↗

— David Satcher

#country #different #future #health #i

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#chiefly #come #eagles #recognize #shapes

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything. ↗

— B. F. Skinner

#child #give #give me #him #i

I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify. ↗

— Leonard Slatkin

#hands #i #like #mold #sculptor

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#association #authorities #become #fact #founded

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it. ↗

— Cornel West

#got #just #opinion #rather #reflects

A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#emotion #expressing #finale #human #human being

His look darkens and he heaves me against his chest forcing me to look at him. “What I do know is that you are disrespectful and disobedient. And that is something that we have to change, don’t we? ↗

— Aileen Rose

#bdsm-paranormal #erotic-romance #shapeshifters #change

When we change the shape of the Land, we alter the contents and contexts of our collective, familial, and personal memories. Yet, stories can preserve both mythic and familiar elements of geography even when the physical features are forgotten, buried, or obliterated. And more than this: the stories can bring these elements back. If the Land can be preserved long enough for its stories to be told, and retold, perhaps we all — as custodians of both place and memory — stand a chance at real preservation. ↗

— Ari Berk

#land #preserving #shape #change

Who else is going to do this job? What do you think that classified ad would read like? 'Dangerous job fighting otherworldly beings, no pay, fame or glory. Death possible. Slobber likely. Injuries always. Must distance yourself from family and friends for their protection.'" -- Cheveyo, Beyond the Darkness ↗

— Jaime Rush

#psychic-powers #shapeshifter #urban-fantasy #death