Expression Quotes

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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me' and other such simple courtesies...Rudeness, the absence… — Edward M Hays
The main reason for civilization is that life is more comfortable. In a way, houses are there to protect us from rain, cold, and heat;… — Pipilotti Rist
Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been… — Agnes Denes
I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression. — Henry A. Kissinger
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or… — Leo Tolstoy
Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. A well… — Havelock Ellis
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget that the first… — Henry David Thoreau
Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be taught;… — William Hughes Mearns
To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history which precedes all… — James Gibbons
The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air. — Bret Harte
Expression is the mystery of beauty. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing… — Marcel Proust
It is essential... that discipline should not be practised like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of… — Erich Fromm
In the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. — Erich Fromm
It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. — Jeanette Winterson
Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself. — William Blake
Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions. — Gloria Steinem

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