Symbols Quotes - Page 19

• Great are the symbols of Being, But that which is symboled is greater;
  Vast the create and beheld, But vaster the Inward Creator.

  Richard Realf

  Inward, Creator, Greater

  Richard Realf, “Indirection”

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• The cypress boat is frequently a symbol of fluctuating intention.

  Arthur Waley

  Cypresses, Boat, Intention

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• It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they betray of the hidden life is by means of symbol; if it were not for the recurring evidence of murder – the disemboweled rabbits, the headless flickers, the torn squirrels – we should forever imagine our cats to be simple pets whose highest ambition is to sleep in the best soft chair, whose worst crime is to sharpen their claws on carpeting.

  Robley Wilson

  Ambition, Mean, Sleep

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• I love tattooed women, maybe because they are uncontrollable, they are themselves to the point of drawing symbols of their power on their skin. Talk about owning your own body, being in your body, claiming yourself. I love it. When the world is in an uproar over whether women should have a choice or not when it comes to their own bodies, being tattooed is one of the most visible choices of all.

  Margaret Cho

  Drawing, Should Have, Choices

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• I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

  Charles Handy

  Success, Believe, Insecurity

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• While it is important to maintain a balanced approach to solving our nation's energy problems, we must commit ourselves to recognize some areas as 'off limits,' and the Artic National Wildlife Reserve is a national symbol of that commitment.

  Ken Salazar

  Commitment, Important, Limits

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• The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Inspirational, Moving, Progress

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• Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols... for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols.

  Antonin Artaud

  Eye, Theatre, Battle

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• In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow table as the shadow ink flows over the shadow paper. It is all symbolic, and as a symbol the physicist leaves it. ... The frank realisation that physical science is concerned with a world of shadows is one of the most significant of recent advances.

  Arthur Eddington

  Drama, Shadow, Ink

  "The Nature of the Physical World" by Arthur Eddington, (Introduction), 1928.

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• A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Character, Looks, Purpose

  Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.96, University of Chicago Press

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• It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders in a nation may differ in their own house but they have instant solidarity in the presence of foreign attack

  Herbert Hoover

  Office, House, Leader

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Long, People, Mind Blowing

  "What is the Jew?" by Leo Tolstoy, 1908.

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• Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, India, Movement

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1849, Manonmani Publishers

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• I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

  Aimee Bender

  Birthday, Cake, Childhood

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• In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Library, Twenties, Example

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.57, New Directions Publishing

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• All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through. No artistic speech is the adequate expression of what it represents; its vital force comes from what is unspoken in it.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Art, Expression

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• All art is at once surface and symbol.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Peril, Beneath The Surface

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.6, First Avenue Editions

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• The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.

  Winston Churchill

  Fate, Victory, Unconquerable Will

  Message to people of Europe launching V for Victory propaganda campaign, 20 July 1941

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• Early Apple machines - don't know how to answer what it was like since there were so few tools. Just had to keep debugging by isolating a problem, looking at memory in the limited debugging (weaker than the DOS DEBUG and no symbols) patch and retry and then re-program, download and try again. And again.

  Bob Frankston

  Memories, Apples, Trying

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• You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence. They are a tribute to the democratic philosophy. They are our aspirations and our name. They are the essence of Greekness.

  Melina Mercouri

  Philosophy, Mean, Patriotic

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• Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

  Friedrich Ebert

  Song, Nations, Sixty

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• I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and the full moon rise over Mont Blanc; but the fairest vision on which these eyes ever looked was the flag of my country in a foreign land. Beautiful as a flower to those who hate it, terrible as a meteor to those who hate it, it is the symbol of the power and glory, and the honor, of fifty million Americans.

  George Frisbie Hoar

  Beautiful, Country, Art

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• I'm not an expert in the deck at all. My interest lies somewhere near a sense that words are like tarot cards, and that a poem manipulates unpredictable depths with its words. . . . I like the tarot because it works like poetry and because you don't really have to 'believe in' anything. It's there to be used. The symbols are remarkably durable and beautiful; they float out to encompass all kinds of meanings.

  Alice Notley

  Beautiful, Lying, Believe

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• It is because we have such shallow views of God's love that we have such defective views of God's dealings. We blindly interpret the symbols of His providence, because we so imperfectly read the engravings of His heart.

  Octavius Winslow

  Heart, Views, Shallow

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• Treasured Pagan Deities were misrepresented and distorted by the Christians for political and religious gain. Dressing their own Satan, who has remained one of the most opressive symbols of evil in our time, in the horned antlers of Cernunnos, a revered Celtic God, was one of the more recognizable ways Christians robbed Pagans of their way of life.

  Laurie Cabot

  Christian, Religious, Evil

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