In many Muslim countries, witchcraft is not only on the books as a crime, but is commonly prosecuted. In 2009, for example,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I didn't have a chance to buy you anything," she said, then held both closed hands toward him. Uncurled her fingers. In… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I see the angel Moroni, standing atop the temple, as a shining symbol of [our] faith. I love Moroni, because in a… — Elaine S. Dalton Copy Share Image
“When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker.… — Eduardo Saverin Copy Share Image
I cannot understand any woman's wanting to be the first woman to do anything. ... It is a devastating burden and I… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
'I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell; the sun and moon for my two round symbols of… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The problem is almost everybody is just recording the world with home photographic toys, not doing metaphor or ideas. We have a… — James Balog Copy Share Image
The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol? — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol - a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image