Personification Quotes

34 quotes by 32 authors

Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and… — Malcolm X
The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one… — George Bernard Shaw
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) is probably the most influential film of my generation. It's the personification of good and evil… — J. J. Abrams
In Hinduism, Shiva the Cosmic Dancer, is perhaps the most perfect personification of the dynamic universe. Through his dance, Shiva sustains the manifold phenomena in… — Fritjof Capra
Satanism is not a white light religion; it is a religion of the flesh, the mundane, the carnal - all of which are ruled by… — Anton Szandor LaVey
Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship,… — Quincy Jones
We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such stories,… — John Frederick Nims
I saw sensuality as sacred, indeed the only sacredness, I saw woman and her beauty as divine since her calling is the most important task… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one too… — Raymond Chandler
Mary Kay was the wholesome personification of the American dream. For women everywhere, she brought the impossible dream to life by making it a reality.… — Zig Ziglar
We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war. — Konrad Lorenz
Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy… — Mahatma Gandhi
Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to… — John Lahr
I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again extremely rich, owing… — George Sand
Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions. — Tom G. Palmer
It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites.… — Criss Jami
The priest is the personification of falsehood. — Giuseppe Garibaldi
If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification of this country. — William J. Clinton
A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from… — Charles Lamb
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity. — Beatrice Webb

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