#shapes

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#god #gods #human #live #most

We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#architectural #back #beautifully #bone #cut

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#also #divinity #ends #only #shapes

I look at him ready to cry again. Not out of pain. Not out of need. But because his words rub that part of my soul that suffers, that wants to be explored like a virgin land that has remained intact for centuries and craves to be occupied, appreciated and transformed. ↗

— Aileen Rose

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

Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!" shouted Seylin. "I will not change into a cat! ↗

— Clare B. Dunkle

#shapeshifters #change

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#arch #barrel #extended #inventors #romans

One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#america #economy #how #look #military

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

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

The sexual attraction between a shifter and one of the marked was always strong and for some that was enough. Even though it might mean spending the rest of your life bound to a woman who wanted to screw you every time she looked at you, but hated you while she did it. ↗

— Cait Miller

#shapeshifters #life