#shaping

As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs. ↗

— Kurt Huber

#citizen #destiny #duty #expose #german

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it. ↗

— Steve King

#constitutional #constitutional republic #crafted #democracy #failures

We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it. ↗

— Steve Largent

#consumer #demand #respond #shaping

I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you realize it, the world is shaped by two things -- stories told and the memories they leave behind. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#evolution #fiction #future #influence #literature

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#essentially #i #language #make #me

You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm. ↗

— Robyn Davidson

#apply #book #make #own #produce

We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#communities #healthier #kids #leaders #shaping

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#always #complete #final #gathered #man

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#done #entangled #how #i #other

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#greatest #lives #nation #our #people