Expression Quotes
3064 quotes by 2122 authors
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Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act of the Creative Imagination. ... For prayer is not a request for something: it is the expression…
— Henry Corbin
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If death disappears there will be no mystery in life. That's why a dead thing has no mystery in it, a corpse has no mystery…
— Rajneesh
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Seriously, if you complain about going to a Paris fashion show, you have officially lost all perspective on life as we know it. And I…
— Cynthia Leive
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The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest.
— Robert Grudin
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It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our…
— Harry S. Truman
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Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise…
— Joseph Story
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It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which…
— Ronald Reagan
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You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What…
— Charles Dickens
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Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be…
— Virginia Woolf
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Art is an extension of language - an expression of sensations too subtle for words.
— Robert Henri
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That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
— George Boole
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Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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For the United States, supporting international development is more than just an expression of our compassion. It is a vital investment in the free, prosperous,…
— Condoleezza Rice
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same…
— Billy Joel
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Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and…
— Lewis Mumford
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You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what…
— Charles Dickens
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I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.
— Lady Gaga
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Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself most clearly in…
— Albert Einstein
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