Expression Quotes

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Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities.… — John L'Heureux
Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults — Olara Otunnu
A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings. — Francis Henry Taylor
Life . . . is a joyful expression of love, praise and thanksgiving instead of a hopeless struggle which eventually ends in death. Giving thanks… — Robert Scheid
We believe that there is no greater power in the world than the force of a great idea. We believe that people are the lifeblood… — John A. Byrne
Evidence that [feminine aesthetic preferences and ways of expressing oneself] may be hardwired comes from the fact that they typically appear early in childhood and… — Julia Serano
Is it possible to be alive, active in the world, and yet have such calm, such kind of inner openness and presence that one can… — Arthur Zajonc
Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual… — Gautama Buddha
Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you. — Robert Holden
A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying. — Elsie Clews Parsons
Hip hop is expression..our roots and culture..Its your duty to contribute uniqueness to this artform. Desire of bringing somethin new, improved, witty and soul touching… — Larry Bakersfield
Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only… — Frank Gehry
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying… — Bertolt Brecht
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied… — Albert Camus
To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason. It is the joyful,… — Michele Cassou
Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine." — Calvin Coolidge
I am interested to learn that a group of distinguished men and women is to be formed to spread knowledge and appreciation of the rehabilitation… — Herbert Hoover
Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality. — Jim Hodges
Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with… — Viola Spolin
The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy. — Max Jacob

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