Expresses Quotes
300 quotes by 268 authors
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We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for…
— John Cage
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The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last…
— David Mamet
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With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character…
— Susan Sontag
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A thing in itself never expresses anything. It is the relation between things that gives meaning to them and that formulates a thought. A thought…
— Hans Hofmann
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A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner…
— Van Wyck Brooks
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Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of what's going. What…
— Tom Harpur
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The Jews cannot be classed as a 'race' per se, they are an ethnic group. '...the Jews form an ethnic group; that like all ethnic…
— Carleton S. Coon
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The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide…
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
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Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
— Walter Lang
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I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.
— Bela Bartok
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A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this voice which makes…
— Emile Durkheim
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Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or…
— Henry Watson Fowler
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If we truly love God, we will express it by loving our neighbors, and when we truly love our neighbors, it expresses our love for…
— Richard Stearns
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The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life, but…
— Paul Strand
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Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.
— Martyn
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By now, a million pedal strokes have etched the muscles in my legs with a single purpose: to power the crank and move the bicycle…
— Frosty Wooldridge
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Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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