I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol, and it's getting me attention. But I know I can act. — Diora Baird Copy Share Image
There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
the Coleman lantern is the symbol of the camping craze that is currently sweeping America, with its unholy white light burning in… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Of course I'm going to be labeled as a sex symbol. I made my bed, and I'm sleeping in it. — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Could any symbol be any more appropriate of the ambiguity of human transformation? What mushroom is it that grows at the end… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our Nation's national security interest. Guantanamo is used not only by al-Qaida,… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Picture a place called the Karma Kafe and it'll save me the bother of describing it. There was nothing in it you… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
“The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Today's status symbol is the Palm Pilot; tomorrow's is not having one, because you have a whole staff keeping track of you.… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of… — Carol J. Adams Copy Share Image
I pray for a world where we live in partnership rather than domination; where "man's conquest of nature" is recognized as suicidal… — Riane Eisler 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
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
Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
You can be a sex symbol through music or film. Hey, there are some politicians that are sex symbols. Is that something… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
I don't like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways Berlin is a symbol for me of Facebook's mission: bringing people together, connecting people and breaking down… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
The teachings of Jesus begin in story and end in symbol - they begin in parable and end in us. These are… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
The Christos-image is most difficult to disentangle from its art-craft junk-shop paint-and-plaster medieval jumble of pain-worship and death-symbol. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will… — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world. — Virginia Foxx Copy Share Image
The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If I am a sex symbol, it's certainly not in the classic sense. I'm opposed to the traditional image of a woman's… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Poetry is a very complex art… It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
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