Symbols Quotes - Page 36

• Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Children, Father, Greatness

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• I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.

  Zack Snyder

  Christian, Earth, Crosses

  "‘Steel’ this movie". Interview with Reed Tucker, nypost.com. November 25, 2012.

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• We [Christians] have the dilemma of using a symbol system that was not made for our worldview, to give our worldview... I think the thing we're waiting for is a genius to come forth who can either make a new symbol system which is still modern, or more properly, as symbol systems don't come overnight, a group of people to modify the symbol systems of our day, so that we can use them for our Christian message without a disadvantage.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Thinking, People

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• Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Meditation

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• The key to meditation is focusing on specific symbols. The symbols are the chakras.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Keys, Meditation

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• At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Eagles, America

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• A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.

  Tommy Lee

  Artist, Animal, Thinking

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• I think any writer coming on to Batman should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to them. Whatever they think that symbol or character can say.

  Grant Morrison

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 19, 2010.

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• The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, wantonly, and in a spirit of poetry; and above all to use its symbols, which are its spiritual essence, giving them a new connotation, a fresh meaning.

  John Cowper Powys

  Spiritual, Mistake, Past

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• Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Country, Past, Way

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• I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.

  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Writing, Focus, Chinese

  Sunday Hindu Interview, devdutt.com. November 1, 2009.

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• His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you look at them, for they are not of ice, they are what Lawren Harris feels and thinks after he has contemplated them

  J. D. Salinger

  Thinking, Ice, Imagination

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• So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all the pain and the struggle.

  Lynn Andrews

  Inspirational, Life, Pain

  Lynn V. Andrews (1993). “Walk in Balance: Meditations with Lynn Andrews”, Harper San Francisco

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• In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.

  Paul Lutus

  Failure, Political, Opinion

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• I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me- and that I've made of myself- as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Life, Sex

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Israel's international position is very badly damaged. A country which started off as a symbol of recovery of a people who were greatly persecuted now looks like a country that is persecuting people. And that's very bad.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Country, Recovery, Israel

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• When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.

  John Dewey

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, David Sidorsky (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1927-1928”, p.120, SIU Press

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• The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.

  Aristotle

  Soul, Affection, Impression

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• When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Thinking, People, Erotic

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• We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it still with us.

  Northrop Frye

  Writing, Looks, Use

  Northrop Frye (1964). “The Educated Imagination”, p.56, Indiana University Press

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• How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must pervade the whole.

  Emily Carr

  Ideas, Feelings, Desire

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• Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

  Adam Gopnik

  Drawing, Shapes, Shade

  "Life Studies" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.

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• The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American institutions, and the symbols of American democracy, took heroic and noble action to ensure that the aircraft they were aboard could not be used as a weapon.

  Arlen Specter

  Numbers, Democracy, Weapons

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• In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point and take details for granted: two trivialities omitted can add up to an impasse). The unpractised writer, even after the dawn of a conscience, gives him no such chance; before he can spot the point he has to tease his way through a maze of symbols of which not the tiniest suffix can be skipped.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Two, Giving, Add

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• Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song? No wonder the bird has become the symbol for happiness. Before the farmer begins to plough the wet earth, often while snow is still on the ground, this hardy little minstrel is making himself very much at home in our orchards and gardens while waiting for a mate to arrive from the South.

  Neltje Blanchan

  Song, Spring, Home

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