Expression Quotes

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I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so… — Henry David Thoreau
Abuse manipulates and twists a child's natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her… — Laura Davies
Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be… — Lewis Sperry Chafer
The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low. — Aristotle
Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression. — Gertrude Stein
If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet. But… — Andre Kertesz
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable. — Ansel Adams
It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events,… — Ansel Adams
The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out… — Henry Adams
For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that's-she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when… — Richard Avedon
The most serious charge that can be brought against modern benevolence is that it encourages the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents and dependents. These are the… — Margaret Sanger
Expression and communication in the peakâ€“experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express… — Abraham Maslow
In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in Godâ€™s existence, Godâ€™s justice, Godâ€™s… — Erich Fromm
The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression. — Jacques Barzun
Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from… — Jacques Barzun
Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation. — Jacques Barzun
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own… — Herbert Marcuse
The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris… — George H. W. Bush
I believe that the universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy... parts of one organic whole.... (This is… — Robinson Jeffers
The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful… — Doris Humphrey

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