Symbols Quotes · Page 37

Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been,…

— William P. Young

In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols…

— Ken Wilber

It's strange because I'm a sex symbol to 14-year-old girls which I guess is not the most helpful situation to be in.…

— Robert Pattinson

The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended…

— Anonymous

Let's take back the rainbow for God. Let the homosexual community find a different religious symbol to commandeer... What I want is…

— Ken Hutcherson

Infancy is the realm conveyed to us in dreams which look backward to the past. Adolescence, more like a work of art,…

— Louise J. Kaplan

When you think of the KKK, they actually have as their emblem a fiery cross. And they don't see any contradiction between…

— Desmond Tutu

We're historians and above all want to write about what was. Our book doesn't deal with legacies. It also wasn't our goal…

— Slawomir Cenckiewicz

Many times people will say, you know, you're such a great role model. Well, that's great, but at the end of the…

— Jada Pinkett Smith

“If metaphors require an underlying cultural framework, then the heiroglyphhic language of the gods cannot be a merely primitive stage of human…

— Umberto Eco

Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely!…

— Jon Stewart

I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all, there you…

— Ilka Chase

I often went to Catholic mass or Eucharist at the Episcopal church, nourished by the symbol and power of this profound feeding…

— Sue Monk Kidd

However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch – American flag place mats, patriotic…

— Sarah Vowell

For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this…

— George Lakoff

Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we…

— Gaston Bachelard

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

You must realize that the true desire to express affection can be motivated by things other than true love… In short, one…

— Bruce C. Hafen

I have been battering away at Saturn, returning to the charge every now and then. I have effected several breaches in the…

— James Clerk Maxwell

I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it…

— Jorge Luis Borges

In [Aristotle's] formal logic, thought is organized in a manner very different from that of the Platonic dialogue. In this formal logic,…

— Herbert Marcuse

Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol… If you think of Om only as a…

— Amit Ray

Drafting of the constitutions is interesting and the discussions around them revealing in many ways. I take it as a discussion of…

— Tariq Ramadan

In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed…

— Ian Mcewan

The fear of death has been raised too much and set up on high, especially by preachers, like the brazen serpent in…

— James Vila Blake

Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the…

— James Clerk Maxwell

There are energies that reside in each phone and phoneme. And we can release them. And it can be grand and vast…

— Anne Waldman

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

For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a…

— Adam Gopnik

Apart from it, the incarnation and the ministry would lose all their significance, the crucifixion would be but a martyrdom, and the…

— Robert Anderson

It thunders, howls, roars, hisses, whistles, blusters, hums, growls, rumbles, squeaks, groans, sings, crackles, cracks, rattles, flickers, clicks, snarls, tumbles, whimpers, whines,…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom…

— Stanislaw Lem

I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic.…

— Alan Moore

When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough…

— Malcolm X

And the fact that the Muslim world, over the course of a decade, rallied and defeated a superpower is an extraordinary symbol…

— Michael Scheuer

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you…

— Meister Eckhart

It is true, these Roman Catholics, priests and all, impress me as a people who have fallen far behind the significance of…

— Henry David Thoreau

The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost…

— W. Somerset Maugham