Symbols Quotes · Page 5

The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.

— Aristotle

One symbol of lack of democracy is to have cars parked on the sidewalk.

— Enrique Penalosa

A sex symbol is a heavy load to carry when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

— Clara Bow

Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.

— Carl Jung

For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.

— Diane von Furstenberg

Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me.

— Chris O'Dowd

Clothes are signifiers and symbols of how people communicate with each other.

— Kim Gordon

Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.

— Dan Brown

I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol.

— Eva Mendes

Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend…

— Manly Hall

There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ,…

— John Ruskin

Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

— William Faulkner

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.

— Buzz Aldrin

In Egypt the staff was rendered as a shepherd's crook that was a symbol for the pharaohs, the Druids of Egypt. The…

— Michael Tsarion

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood…

— Jim Woodring

To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the…

— Aleister Crowley

All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only…

— Bertrand Russell

I don't like looking at awards everyday because I feel like they can make you lazy. So, I give them to my…

— Tyra Banks

Nourishing spirituality means cultivating the inward space, the basis of which all things can be brought together. It means overwhelming deadness and…

— Leonardo Boff

Every now and then life sold you an illusion of design. A coincidence, a parallel, a sledgehammer symbol. The goods were always…

— Glen Duncan

“The great things of life are what they seem to be, and for that reason, strange as it may sound to you,…

— Oscar Wilde

I end with a word on the new symbols which I have employed. Most writers on logic strongly object to all symbols.…

— Augustus De Morgan

At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral…

— Nelson Mandela

“Far more powerful than religion, far more powerful than money, or even land or violence, are symbols. Symbols are stories. Symbols are…

— Lia Habel

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential,…

— Ayn Rand

I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem-and eating some of it doesn't directly…

— Frances Moore Lappé

It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Money is a symbol of that life force, of its appreciation. Money can be a solidified form of love. Through the transfer…

— Stuart Wilde

And the joys I've felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously.

— John Travolta

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The flag is a symbol of the fact that man is still a herd animal.

— Albert Einstein

“In this sorry world, the symbol is the thing.”

— Neil Gaiman

Look to the temple of the Lord as the great symbol of your membership.

— Howard W. Hunter

The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority.

— Stefan Heym

[Confederate flag] it's a symbol of racial hatred.

— Rick Santorum

The key to meditation is focusing on specific symbols. The symbols are the chakras.

— Frederick Lenz