When we use numbers we are using symbols, and it is only when we transfer them to life that they become actualities.… — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is 'veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols' because these are the surest way by which moral and ethical truths may… — Carl H. Claudy Copy Share Image
Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Of all the foods we share, there is nothing more primordial than meat. It's no surprise that meat-eaters still want a partner… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“People are going to come into your life, and God is going to use them to help you. To them you’re insignificant… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to… — Henry R. Towne Copy Share Image
“We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means. I prefer to express myself… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
We [Christians] have the dilemma of using a symbol system that was not made for our worldview, to give our worldview... I… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
I feel this way about it. World trade means world peace and consequently the World Trade Center buildings in New York ...… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
By the time kids are 15, they're drunks and they're drug addicts and they're getting chicks pregnant. The parents wonder, "What did… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds… — William Wallace Copy Share Image
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The world's central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Each holy temple stands as a symbol of our membership in the Church, as a sign of our faith in life after… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I have a three-legged milk stool in my office perched on top of a cabinet. It is a great symbol for how… — Larry H. Miller 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
The spread of yoga is the symbol of a changing world. It represents a world where knowledge flows, without restriction of country,… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system,… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the… — Jose Ortega y Gasset 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
It's been interesting to look back on those works [I've done previously] and see all the things that Beyoncé has done and… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
In Islamic theology, the phallic symbol is very important. Your biggest phallic symbol is New York City and your tallest building will… — Isser Harel Copy Share Image
Trees are extraordinary revelations of the spirit in nature. And, given the multitude of ways that trees and their products benefit and… — Steven Clark Rockefeller Copy Share Image
We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
The desert ... may serve better as the backdrop for the problematic relationship between man and the environment. The human struggle, the… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
A lot of people are very frustrated. On the outside I am a woman, but how much am I also a man… — Pernille Fischer Christensen 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
It's hilarious to be considered a sex symbol. In school I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into. Being… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
Meditate upon my counsels; love them; follow them; To the divine virtues will they know how to lead thee. I swear it… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
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