Expresses Quotes
300 quotes by 268 authors
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Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two…
— Herbert Spencer
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Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
— Henry David Thoreau
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A gentle mixture of furniture expresses life and continuity but it must be a judicious mixture that flows and mixes well. It is a bit…
— Nancy Lancaster
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A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by…
— Theodor Adorno
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Setbacks, on the other hand, just make us feel weak and stupid: I should have conquered this by now. I happened on a question not…
— Beth Moore
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The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the…
— Constantin Brancusi
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Everybody expresses themselves in different ways. Some people write it down, some people paint it. Some people express it in the way they speak. We…
— Isaac Hanson
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A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts,…
— Mark Forsyth
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The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human organization contains both designed…
— Fritjof Capra
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Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of…
— Alasdair MacIntyre
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The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan.
— Baldur von Schirach
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A literally perfect style should conceal itself so completely behind what it expresses that it goes unnoticed.
— Julien Torma
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It’s true that the mind is where all ideas are born, but the body is the tool that translates and expresses those ideas to the…
— Evanna Lynch
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One of the ways that our faith expresses itself is by our ability to be still, to be present, and not to panic or lose…
— Tim Hansel
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EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech. It is action…
— Eliphas Levi
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As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in…
— Luciano Pavarotti
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Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.
— Andy Hargreaves
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Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to…
— Celia Green
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Optimism is a wish without warrant; Christian hope is a certainty, guaranteed by God himself. Optimism reflects ignorance as to whether good things will ever…
— J I Packer
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Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice; since he…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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