It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end,… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history,… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance. — Michael J. Schmoker Copy Share Image
Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique, irreplaceable. More than twenty years ago, he burst… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Great are the symbols of Being, But that which is symboled is greater; Vast the create and beheld, But vaster the Inward… — Richard Realf Copy Share Image
The word is not just a sound or a written symbol. The word is a force; it is the power you have… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can't do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man I'm… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities. — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
If the Americans, in addition to the eagle and the Stars and Stripes and the more unofficial symbols of bison, moose and… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake. The duty of… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence. — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
