The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The cross of the Cruxifixion without the cross of the Resurrection is the symbol of a mutilated Christianity. — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols. — Al Nichol Copy Share Image
In terms of men I fancy, I think the actor James Franco is gorgeous. But I find it odd to be described… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
It's ridiculous that people call me a sex symbol. I don't feel like that at all. My daughter would get a kick… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
Just look up any symbol, and you'll find that the meanings behind that symbol are revealed in a manner you can actually… — Leon Nacson Copy Share Image
Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Abel's sacrifice was accepted by God because it was made according to God's instructions. Cain, however, tried to approach God in his… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth…… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity… — Steven Levenkron Copy Share Image
I perceived that the 'thing' and the 'idea' were taken to be equivalents of feeling, and understood the lie of the world… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
August [Wilson] elevates in us is the average man in a way that is heroic and real and human. What you do… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Not only did Mao Zedong Thought lead us to victory in the revolution in the past; it is - and will continue… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that 'stand for' things they see in the world around them... Children are… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
when ... I've thought of madness, it seems most easily explained to me as poetry in action. A life of symbol rather… — Helen Eustis Copy Share Image
When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice… As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I stared at the Ohio River every day as a child, a thing that for me is almost more symbol than river.… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity. — Adrian Cronauer Copy Share Image
The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet. — Francois Viete Copy Share Image
Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As far as I've been alive, women have always been more or less the symbol of sexuality rather than the male. We… — Raquel Welch Copy Share Image
One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
A city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept. — Leslie Ford Copy Share Image
In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image