Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the… — Jean-Louis Gassee Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It's Aslan, the lion from The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. It's a symbol of my hellish childhood. I struggled through… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
The Resurrection of Jesus is...a symbol of hope...I don't see how you can show love...without being in solidarity with the victims of… — Jon Sobrino Copy Share Image
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A person is either himself or not himself; is either rooted in his existence or is a fabrication; has either found his… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
To me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness. When you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Do you understand any of this?" he said, pointing to the lines and symbols that covered the massive screens. "Some people understand… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag, whereas they are… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
Nearly 60% of Americans who regularly attend Christian church say there is no such thing as the Holy Spirit—they say the Holy… — George Barna Copy Share Image
Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
By the time President Obama took office, Guantanamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser Copy Share Image
In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in… — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use… — John Green Copy Share Image
The word is not just a sound or a written symbol. The word is a force; it is the power you have… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
This is an important point about symbols: they do not refer to historical events; they refer through historical events to spiritual or… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our… — Michael Enzi Copy Share Image
A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I'm very aware of that. I was born in… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
Honor must start in the heart, but if it ends there, it isn’t honor. Honor must be expressed through words, symbols, actions,… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
If I wake up one day and people tell me I'm not sexy, I'm not going to stop making good music and… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Physically, the heart is an organ that keeps us alive through a coordinated network of cells beating together. Spiritually, the heart is… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
If you can't have a good time and smile and relate to people across race and class, then the success that you… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
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