It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted,… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
The torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games, of peace and togetherness. It's a good idea. And this idea is being… — Herbert Hainer Copy Share Image
The skin is a true symbol of our health because it's the last place to get nutrition and if you can drive… — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America’s power. It has been the symbol of our great nation,… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
What is the crowning glory of your civilization... the symbol as clear a statement as the pyramids, the Parthenon, the cathedrals? What… — George Nelson Copy Share Image
[It is appropriate that the Body and Blood of Christ be truly present in this Sacrament] because of the perfection of the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Music and time have such an interesting relationship. Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
The real important function of the church is to present the symbol, to perform the rite, to let you behold this divine… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I remember the first time we stood in this spot. We were on the deck of a boat in the middle of… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
“Turning and climbing, the double helix evolved to an operation which had always existed as a possibility for mankind, the eating of… — William S. Wilson 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
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
Just look up any symbol, and you'll find that the meanings behind that symbol are revealed in a manner you can actually… — Leon Nacson Copy Share Image
Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Abel's sacrifice was accepted by God because it was made according to God's instructions. Cain, however, tried to approach God in his… — Robert Jeffress 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
Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense,… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
I don't like to be called a symbol. And I don't like to be called an icon. I will just say that… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Life compulsively dangled the possibility of life. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had… — Andres Serrano Copy Share Image
The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Even now, when I do a slide show of the Geek Squad story, the first slide is a photo of ramen noodles.… — Robert Stephens Copy Share Image
I don't want to base my life on a symbol, he said resolutely. I want reality, and the Christian faith has always… — Anonymous 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
There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the plane’s ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Our peaceful borders and our peaceful history are important symbols, to be sure. What they symbolize, however, is the spirit of respect… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Mercury. Lead. Antimony. A cresent moon sits at the nape of her neck; and Egyptian ankh near her collarbone. There are other… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
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