Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence.

David Brin

Change is the very fabric of our time.

Denis Waitley

The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

Anne Stillman

We want to preserve as much of the historic fabric as is possible.

Charles Ives

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

Arundhati Roy

corporate globalization is being relentlessly and arbitrarily imposed on an essentially feudal society, tearing through its complex, tiered social fabric, ripping it apart culturally and economically.

Billy Corgan

Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there to serve the population's titillation of the moment.

Ralph Lauren

The fabrics, whether it be hand-painted prints at the end, or whether it be new knits and stretch fabrics ... sort of make the whole world.

Liberty Ross

I love the fabric of Genetic jeans. There's a softness. I always travel in them. It feels like you're in like your most comfortable pajamas.

Blanka Vlasic

Competing helps me to polish my shape.

Edith Wharton

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

David Hockney

No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes...

Edward Furlong

I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't.

Charles Dickens

The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

bell hooks

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.

Derrick Jensen

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

Desiderius Erasmus

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

Alexis Arguello

When I was in top shape I'd go to the ring and show my conditioning.

Edwin Land

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

Bill Nye

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

Billy Crudup

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

Dan Ariely

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

Andrzej Wajda

Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

Clay Shirky

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...

Doris Lessing

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

David Ogden Stiers

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.