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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. -- Edmund Waller
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. -- Henry David Thoreau
The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations. -- Joseph Pulitzer
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. -- Charlotte Bronte
If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking? -- Thomas a Kempis
She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too! -- Charles Dickens
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us. -- Samuel Butler
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. -- Willa Cather
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak. -- William Godwin
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. -- Virginia Woolf
I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them. -- Mark Haddon
As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world. -- Lech Walesa
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work. -- Edward Gibbon
Travel Moulds A Man,People Mould His Wisdom And Experiences Mould His LIFE...! -- Sujit Lalwani
Ideas any one can mould as he wishes. -- Josiah Royce
I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences. -- Ella Maillart
I don't consider myself to be a celebrity. I don't fit that mould. -- Emma Watson
We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould. -- Jacque Fresco
Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets. -- Larry Hagman
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society. -- Marya Mannes
Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast. -- Neil Peart
I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable. -- Emmanuelle Seigner
Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Brazil's always had great players, both at home and abroad, but we need to put all that talent together and mould a team out of it. -- Pele
I always thought models had to fit a certain mould. I never thought I had what it takes. I'm too small and my look's pretty weird. -- Devon Aoki
I always thought models had to fit a certain mould. I never thought I had what it takes. I'm too small and my look's pretty weird -- Devon Aoki
It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to. -- Anita Brookner
If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream your way out of the nightmare. -- will.i.am
I've never been one to bow down to people who try to question my identity because I don't fit their mould of what an Aboriginal Australian is supposed to be or look like. -- Shari Sebbens
Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster. -- J. J. Abrams
When I hit the scene, there was Billy Connolly and Max Boyce. It was all mother-in-law and Irish jokes, and we broke the mould. Now there are thousands of comedians out there, and I don't think I can be above it all. -- Jasper Carrott
You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea. -- Kim Jong Il
I therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken? -- Roy Jenkins
I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches. -- Rachel Cusk
I think I have broken the mould that actresses have to be extremely thin on screen. All those who are making my weight an issue just prove that people are jealous. These are people who have nothing to do in life except to stare at their computer screens and make comments on us. -- Sonakshi Sinha
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final. -- Hunter S. Thompson
There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer graphics as much as I like allegory. It's a constant balancing game. I want audiences to be on this rollercoaster that fits the Hollywood mould, but I also want them to absorb my observations. -- Neill Blomkamp
The film I do doesn't have to be a film that only my kids can watch. My kids will watch films, but I will decide what they watch and not. My aim is to play different characters and not be stuck in a mould. Just because you are a mom and a wife doesn't meant you have to play those roles, even in films. -- Madhuri Dixit
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands -- Francis Bacon, Sr.
Whatever your story, the world does not need to mould you. -- Tim Hughes
The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character. -- George Bernard Shaw
Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? -- John Milton
Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould -- Michel de Montaigne
I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema. -- Irrfan Khan
Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want -- Amish Tripathi
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in. -- Thomas Hardy
A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars. -- Victor Hugo
If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty. -- Charles Darwin
I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them. -- Samuel Johnson
Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould. -- Georges Danton
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June suns, you cannot store themTo warm the winter's cold,The lad that hopes for heavenShall fill his mouth with mould. -- A. E. Housman
He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form. -- Graham Greene
If you mould yourself according to time and let yourself flow with the changingcircumstances, see, what you will soon transform into. -- Deep Trivedi
Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing. -- Michel de Montaigne
Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears. -- Juvenal
Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? -- John Milton
Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past. -- Alexander Smith
You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own. -- Charles Lamb
A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul. -- Isaac Watts
It's something you don't see until it's gone-the shapes and things have and the ways in which the people around you mould the shapes. -- Amitav Ghosh
A Court of equity can mould interests differently from a Court of law; and can give relief in cases where a Court of law cannot. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us -- Samuel Butler
Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair. -- John Milton
And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from every part of the face. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play like him. -- John McEnroe
As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows. -- Michelangelo
Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed. -- Paul Feyerabend
Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us. -- Eric Berne
Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould. -- Edmund Clarence Stedman
Daffy-down-dilly came up in the cold, Through the brown mould Although the March breeze blew keen on her face, Although the white snow lay in many a place. -- Anna Bartlett Warner
The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs. -- Friedrich Schiller
The dreary flies, lazy and casual, Stick to the ceiling, buzz along the wall. O heart, the spider shuffles from the mould Weaving, between the pinks and grapes, his pall. -- Allen Tate
Being vintage like a fine wine Should make you proud of being old And being mature like a cheese Certainly explains the mould! Fester on undaunted into your 7th decade -- John Walter Bratton
Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape. -- Martin Luther
Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits-and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire? -- Omar Khayyam
A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun. -- C. S. Lewis
Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould. -- Kamla Persad-Bissessar
Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold -- Charles Dickens
We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences. -- Rumi
Humanity is the start of the race; I say Humanity is the mould to break away from, the crust to break through, the coal to break into fire, The atom to be split. -- Robinson Jeffers
No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. -- Charlotte Bronte
I used to collect Persian rugs and real estate - you should be able to walk on and live in your money. I had to give up the rugs because I'm allergic to mould. -- Eric Idle
When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision. -- Plato
Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living. -- W. Somerset Maugham
grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. -- J. R. R. Tolkien

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