Martin Luther King would celebrate the symbolic status (of having a black president), but he would examine what the real substance was.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Money as such is, as Oscar Wilde said, perfectly useless. You can't eat it, drink it, shelter yourself from the cold with… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“When he had ended, the holy hermit was a moment silent, then said: "My son, I have attended to thy story and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“In the world “out there,” there are no verbs, no speech events, and no adjacency pairs. There are particles of matter moving… — Duranti a Alessandro Copy Share Image
I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress,… — Bruce Springsteen 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
Because rage and violence are human emotions and drives and capacities that inhabit us all. SEE CARL JUNG. Or that hipster Joseph… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Everything is symbolic. If they'd picked some middle-aged white guy, well, that would have been a symbol, but it wouldn't have been… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
“A symbol is always in general and, however precise its translation, an artist can restore to it only its movement: there is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
When we approach legal reform work, we can ask questions like: Will this provide actual relief to people facing violence or harm… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Being in church so often, spending those hours sitting in front of a highly symbolic array of objects, hearing those beautiful texts… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The purpose of a fishing trip is not to catch fish. Bringing home meat is important, but it is more symbolic than… — Paul G. Quinnett Copy Share Image
I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Cats and their owners are on a private, exclusive loop of affection. Thus cats have become symbolic of a community eschewed and… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By now you must have accepted the fact that your religion , in fact, none of the Earthly religions, truly knew what… — Philip Jose Farmer 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
The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism". Far from… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Evolving Culture, Reality, as we perceive it, is largely shaped by the artifacts, both material and symbolic, of thought, thought that leads… — Robert Venosa Copy Share Image
I wore the gold is symbolic of my African heritage. When my black ancestors was bought over here from Africa they were… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because… — John Green Copy Share Image
Truth will always reassert itself, given a symbolic three days. Three days represents the time it takes between the crucifixion and the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Know verily that the purpose underlying all these symbolic terms and abstruse allusions, which emanate from the revealers of Gods holy cause,… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In Britain, the theatre has traditionally been where the public goes to think about its past and debate its future. The formation… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The fact that the union of different nationalities and denominations resulted from the liberation, this is particularly symbolic and important for our… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Job insecurity, debt servitude, poverty, incarceration and a growing network of real and symbolic violence have entrapped too many young people in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
[My poems] of course, it's symbolic, in the way that things in a poem can be - that is, pointing to something… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations and even occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
If being an anti-art artist is difficult, being an anti-art art historian is a hard position indeed. His doctrinal revolutionism brings forth… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we don't have the option of marriage in our country. We could go to Britain or Spain or Argentina and do… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that many of the mainstream white institutions tend to be cosmetic and symbolic when it comes to including African-Americans,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
In response to the escalating violence in Iraq, President Bush is delaying the return home of 25,000 troops and will actually add… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
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