Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.
Richard M. DeVos

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.
Robert Collier

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
Arthur Miller

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Rene Dubos

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
Fidel Castro

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
Ansel Adams

Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases, countries that have worked with us and have used our financial facilities have come out quick... more quickly and in a better shape from a crisis than would have come out otherwise.
Rodrigo Rato

Most of us believe outside situations shape our attitudes when, in fact, it is our view of the situations that shape our attitudes.
Darren L. Johnson

My body's feeling it a little bit. But one good thing, my back is in good shape, and that's my main concern. I know that my legs are going to take awhile to get back to where I was a few years ago, but as long as my back is solid, I feel that I can play many years.
Mario Lemieux

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.
Maya Lin

My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes.
Christine Lahti

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.
Edward Carpenter

My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.
Aleksander Kwasniewski

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.
Ruben Studdard

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
Faye Dunaway

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
James Lovelock

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
Albert Schweitzer

No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.
Amitabh Bachchan

None of us condone terrorism in any way, shape, or form, and I believe Hezbollah is a terrorist organization that was, is, and remains a threat to peace in the Mideast, and must be dismantled and disarmed.
John Conyers

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
Rick Moody