The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good… — Invader Copy Share Image
'A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pudding is rich in raisins. — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does. — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined. — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it a shocking and terrifying event [9/11], particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
It's ridiculous that people call me a sex symbol. I don't feel like that at all. My daughter would get a kick… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity… — Steven Levenkron Copy Share Image
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth…… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The symbol in Chinese for crisis is made up of two ideographs: one means danger, the other means opportunity. This symbol is… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language… — John Berger Copy Share Image
To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Such displays of the Australian spirit engender pride, regardless of background, religion and political persuasion. They are unifying... This spirit of leadership… — Larissa Behrendt Copy Share Image
What we argue in the piece is that the headscarf has become a political symbol for an ideology of Islam that is… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
The creation of all those symbols and logotypes which are an ever more striking feature of the world in which we live… — Armin Hofmann Copy Share Image
The "brightness" of the 15 percent might or might not indicate a profound feeling for the causes of things; it is largely… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
This is a concept that western culture has forgotten : everything is one! The idea of dichotomy is deeply wrong and nothing… — Tiziano Terzani Copy Share Image
What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning. — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action. — Allen Newell Copy Share Image
I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
For me, I want a president who is more than a symbol, someone who has ideas that I align with. — Emily Ratajkowski Copy Share Image
Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language. — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
Symbols mean something and symbols often can spark hope and action in people particularly young people. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not… — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
We talk to each other in code. We said that 420 was a special number. It was a time. It was a… — Rick Cusick Copy Share Image
That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest. — George Eliot Copy Share Image