It is quite likely ... that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual. Put simply, not… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In America most orthodox Christians become defensive or testy when they are asked even to break into a sweat. Most of our… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters - the core - is left. — Anders Fogh Rasmussen Copy Share Image
From the moment of birth, at every level, human beings who are more alike than different become polarized into two absolutely exclusive… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The fifth and by far the most important reason is that stoning is literally a means of crushing the murderer's head by… — Gary North Copy Share Image
A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in… — John Divola Copy Share Image
Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Religions have always adopted rich symbolic languages to signify the different aspects of their respective forms of faith and mythology. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
As for my feelings toward 'Over the Rainbow,' it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all my dreams… — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
“From the bonny bells of heather, They brewed a drink long syne, Was sweeter far than honey, Was stronger far than wine.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The trouble with "sacrifices as symbolic acts" is that the immediate impact on those for whom the sacrifice is made quickly fades,… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious. — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
We have become so quick and effective in building things today. It would be easy to build another Pyramid of Giza or… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
