#shape

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection? ↗

— Steven Pinker

#brain #dangerous #genome #idea #implications

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#bounds #completely #easy #ethical #extent

The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#end #eye #middle #searches #shapes

I definitely want to get in shape and be healthy again. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#definitely #get #healthy #i #shape

Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#agenda #changes #crisis #franklin #franklin roosevelt

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#artist #chaos #confusion #disparate #frame

The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes. ↗

— Zac Posen

#biggest thing #body #clothing #different #displayed

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#diction #fashioned #like #out #over

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#difficult #end #fiction #fiction writer #figure

As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity. ↗

— Victoria Principal

#capacity #full #long #mind #shape