Takes Shape

Famous quotes containing the words takes and/or shape:

“There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)