The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the sexiness, the sex symbol, it's not a consideration. — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance. — Michael J. Schmoker Copy Share Image
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
That way of inspiration is always open, and open to everyone; it acts as go-between, interpreter, it explains symbols of the past… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of… — Joe Klein 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
When you can't see any reason for loving a person, you must be loving him as a symbol of something, don't you… — Kylie Tennant Copy Share Image
Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word,… — T. S. Eliot 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
In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
People complain about their griefs and sorrows and how they pray to God but find no relief from pain. But grief itself… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
...our cities of the present lack the outstanding symbol of national community which, we must therefore not be surprised to find, sees… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Not far from here where we gather today is a symbol of freedom familiar to all Americans - the Liberty Bell. When… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools'… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
I think of what's happening in Detroit as part of something that's much bigger. Most people think of the decline of the… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Among archetypal images, the Sacred Tree is one of the most widely know symbols on Earth. There are few cultures in which… — Christopher McDowell Copy Share Image
The Byzantines hammered away at their hard and orthodox symbols, because they could not be in a mood to believe that men… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We are all born idolaters, and idolatry is good, because it is in the nature of man. Who can get beyond it?… — Swami Vivekananda 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
We Sioux spend a lot of time thinking about everyday things which in our minds are mixed up with the spiritual. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The nation, like the church, has its visible symbols and insignia, its parchments engrossed with the revealed word, its dogmas, hymns, liturgy,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The polar bear for many has become a living symbol of the dangers of global warming. The powerful kings of the arctic… — Sam Champion Copy Share Image
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality. — Dennis Potter 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
Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness. — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
I love tunnels. They 're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again. If by chance it is not night. — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection! — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol, and it's getting me attention. But I know I can act. — Diora Baird Copy Share Image
We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
