Symbols Quotes - Page 7

• The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spinning, Wheels, Nonviolence

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• Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having been totally healed by the Holy Spirit, Jesus became one with him. Every thought, action, and deed of Jesus was guided by the Holy Spirit instead of ego.

  Marianne Williamson

  Jesus, Ego, Deeds

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• The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.

  Carl Jung

  Philosophy, Self, Medicine

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• A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Loss, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.288

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• Spock was the sex symbol. A lot of people think it was Kirk. But, no, it was really Spock.

  Jolene Blalock

  Sex, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Numbers have life; they’re not just symbols on paper.

  Shakuntala Devi

  Life, Numbers, Paper

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• The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Christian, Appreciate, Reminders

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• Thus, the Lingam is the simplest sign or symbol of Emergence and Mergence.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Simplest, Emergence

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• I believe the minorities need to have a strategy of survival because needless aggression when you cannot change the situation does not help. Wisdom is more important than saving some cultural symbol.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Believe, Survival, Important

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Some people, of course, can be happier with the cars, the fancy threads, the hilltop mansion, and the other status symbols of 'having made it', but I found that several of my most prized possessions were slipping away, despite all the fortune I had amassed.

  George Harrison

  People, Car, Fancy

  Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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• Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.

  Ray Bradbury

  Stories, Metaphor, Comic

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• The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• Running, close companion to death, summons us to the most vivid acts of life. Our ancestors (we have forgotten) ran for food and for love, love and lust. For us, a prime symbol of sexuality is the automobile. For the ancients it was the chase, the foot race. Satyr and nymph, maiden and god, hot pursuit. The mythic hunters, Diana and Atalanta, available only to the males, men or gods, who could outrun them; death to all others.

  George Leonard

  Running, Men, Race

  George Leonard (2001). “The Ultimate Athlete”, p.178, North Atlantic Books

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• It's hilarious to be considered a sex symbol. In school I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into. Being thought of as sexy makes one employable, but it's not going to last forever, so I try not to think about it. It's like something that exists outside of me.

  Richard Armitage

  Sexy, School, Thinking

  "Richard Armitage: 'I Was a Beanpole With a Nose I Hadn't Grown Into'". The Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2010.

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• There was a generation of kids who were just kind of emulating distant heroes and wearing peace symbols, and parents who were thinking of themselves as liberal and removed from barbarity, but it also was the era of Vietnam. I very much was influenced - and I think the whole country was kind of in a state of shock - for the first time seeing the horror and cruelty of war.

  Wes Craven

  Country, War, Hero

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Ifs, Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Death, Night, Thinking

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.561, Vintage

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• In 325 A.D., the Roman Emperor Constantine decided to unify Rome under a single religion ... Historians still marvel at the brilliance with which Constantine converted the sun-worshipping pagans to Christianity. By fusing pagan symbols, dates, and rituals into the growing Christian tradition, he created a kind of hybrid religion that was acceptable to both parties.

  Dan Brown

  Christian, Party, Rome

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• I look in the mirror and I don't see a sex symbol. I just see a guy who looks like he's been beaten with a baseball bat. I mean, is this the face of a sex symbol? They say that because I work in the movies.

  Javier Bardem

  Baseball, Sex, Mean

  Interview with Peter Symth, www.mirror.co.uk. March 30, 2008.

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• There's also something about your bed; it's sort of a symbol of yourself and of your marriage, if you're married. Making your bed doesn't seem to be an important thing in a happy life, and yet it can be that tiny foothold into a more orderly life that sometimes people need.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Happy Life, People, Important

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as much images as matériel, an aesthetic as well as a product line. It is about culture as commodity, apparel as ideology. Its symbols are Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Cadillac motorcars hoisted from the roadways, where they once represented a mode of transportation, to the marquees of global market cafés like Harley-Davidson's and the Hard Rock where they become icons of lifestyle.

  Benjamin Barber

  Icons, Rocks, Style

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• I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real, in the sense of being real symbols.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Real, Reading, Writing

  Jorge Luis Borges (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my feelings, or for my thoughts. So that, in a sense, a fantastic story is as real and perhaps more real than a mere circumstantial story. Because after all, circumstances come and go, and symbols remain.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Real, Writing, Feelings

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I am not a sex symbol.

  Jason Isaacs

  Sex, Sex Symbol

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• The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the symbols by which man affirms his mental scheme, and these symbols, be they pictorial or mathematical, a fable or formula, will reflect the same changes.

  Kenneth Clark

  Art, Men, Fables

  "How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day". Book by Michael J. Gelb (p. 127), October 21, 2009.

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