Expression Quotes

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. — Oscar Wilde
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos â€” the trees, the clouds, everything. — Nhat Hanh
I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let… — Nicholas Sparks
Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between… — Michael Ondaatje
You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression… — Melissa Bank
Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
What a gulf between impression and expression! Thatâ€™s our ironic fateâ€”to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare)… — Aldous Huxley
I loathe the expression â€œWhat makes him tick.â€ It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A… — James Thurber
You still love me - even if there's one expression of it that you will always feel and want, but will not give me no… — Ayn Rand
We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a… — Barack Obama
My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the… — Jane Austen
Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the… — Beverley Nichols
I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I… — Alice Walker
Give expression to the noble desires that lie in your heart. — Gordon B. Hinckley
The first building she reached appeared to be an old barn. Only one young guard stood before its bolted door, staring at her with wide… — Shannon Hale
The whole "weak in the knees" thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real. -Suite… — Maureen Johnson
Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She is the rich deep beneath the sea, the buried treasure, the expression in the owl's eye, the… — Patricia A. McKillip
She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened… — Elizabeth Bowen
When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you… — Jodi Picoult

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