Zitat des Tages über Formen / Forms:
They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.
Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1,000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right.
The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.
At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.
There are still a lot of cases in the world where you order something and then you see 'Delivery will be in 8-12 weeks.' This is because of the faxes and forms that still exist.
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
While conventional wisdom has traditionally sided against borrowing from retirement savings, sentiment has shifted toward borrowing from one's own assets with the realization that other forms of credit come at a much higher cost and often are not even available to borrowers with limited means and urgent needs.
Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.
Every form has its merits. And I like to work in a lot of different forms.
The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.
Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.
I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.
Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.
I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.
More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.
The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
With its fluctuating forms and needless decoration, fashion epitomizes the supposedly unproductive waste that inspired 20th-century technocrats to dream of central planning. It exists for no good reason. But that's practically a definition of art.
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
Technologically, the Internet works thanks to loose but trusted connections among its many constituent parts, with easy entry and exit for new ISPs or new forms of expanding access.
What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.
The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.
