Expression Quotes - Page 23

• There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. You just see reflections

  Douglas Sirk

  Real, Reflection, Glasses

  Douglas Sirk, Lucy Fischer (1991). “Imitation of Life”, p.228, Rutgers University Press

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• The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Valleys, Language, American Language

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• A brand is nothing but an expression of the consumer’s loyalty and trust.

  Phil Dusenberry

  Loyalty, Consumers, Brands

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• There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, 
  mounted to best advantage.

  Robert Genn

  Winning, Feelings, Exhibitions

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.35, Studio Beckett Publications

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• PERSONAL IMPORTANCE or taking things personally, is an expression of SELFISHNESS because we make the assumption that everything is about ME!! NOTHING PEOPLE DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU!! IT'S BECAUSE OF THEMSELVES!!

  Miguel

  People, Selfishness, Four Agreements

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• No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.

  Guy Sajer

  Wartime, Significance, Spares

  Guy Sajer (2000). “The Forgotten Soldier”, p.95, Potomac Books, Inc.

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• I have used the words and expressions which my experiences from Minsk to Kharkov to the Don suggested to me. But I should have reserved those words and expressions for what came later, even though they are not strong enough. It is a mistake to use intense words without carefully weighing and measuring them, or they will have already been used when one needs them later. It's a mistake, for instance, to used the word frightful to describe a few broken up companions mixed into the ground: but it's a mistake that might be forgiven.

  Guy Sajer

  Strong, Mistake, Should Have

  Guy Sajer (2000). “The Forgotten Soldier”, p.68, Potomac Books, Inc.

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• Enjoying your work is essential. If your work becomes an expression of your own ideas, you will surely enjoy it.

  Soichiro Honda

  Ideas, Essentials, Enjoy

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• Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  Animal, Our Words, Coincidence

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• My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don't quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise - I believe blow jobs prevent war.

  A.M. Homes

  Jobs, Sex, War

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• Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There’s no how-to road map to style. It’s about self-expression and, above all, attitude.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Attitude, Keys

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• Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Thinking, Errors, Years

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• Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears. Love lives the moment; it's neither lost in yesteryear nor does it crave for tomorrow. Love is NOW!

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love Life, Love Is, Joy

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• British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For illustrations of what I mean, study the photographs of the expressions worn by Mr Douglas Hurd at any international conference involving all the Western allies.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

  Mean, Illustration, Skills

  Conor Cruise O'Brien (1994). “On the Eve of the Millennium: The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreason”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

  Rosanne Cash

  Art, Trustworthy, Art Is

  Rosanne Cash (2010). “Composed: A Memoir”, p.135, Penguin

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• I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Writing, Government, Principles

  "No Third Way Out: An Interview with Vaclav Klaus". Interview with John Fund, reason.com. June 1, 1990.

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• Game in, game out, year in, year out, just a kid cruising the ice looking to cause trouble - a wicked wristshot for a goal, a crushing bodycheck, a fight - opponents' bodies littered on the ice, fans out of their seats, the place in an uproar, and Wendel, no expression on his face, looking around wondering what the commotion was about.

  Ken Dryden

  Crush, Kids, Fighting

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• Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular eyes, frosty gold, with an expression of intense, predatory madness in them. The crooked arms, with their fringes of sharp teeth, would be raised in mock supplication to the insect world, so humble, so fervent, trembling slightly when a butterfly flew too close.

  Gerald Durrell

  Humble, Butterfly, Eye

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• Judaism is not a passive religion, but an active life factor which has coalesced
  with the national consciousness into one organic whole. It is primarily the
  expression of a nationality whose history for thousands of years coincides with
  the history of the development of a humanity and the Jews are a nation which,
  having once acted as the leaven of the social world, is destined to be resurrected
  with the rest of civilized nations.

  Moses Hess

  Years, Humanity, Civilized Nations

  Moses Hess (1943). “The Revival of Israel: Rome and Jerusalem, the Last Nationalist Question”, p.49, U of Nebraska Press

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• There’s a great expression in Twelve Step programs: Act as if. Act as if you’re a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful I mean something authentic and universal. Don’t wait for anybody to tell you it’s okay. Take that shimmer and show us our humanity. That’s your job.

  Dani Shapiro

  Beautiful, Jobs, Mean

  Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.32, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• How shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so many
  proud monarchs groaning in the lowest abyss of darkness; so many
  magistrates liquefying in fiercer flames than they ever kindled against the
  Christians; so many sages philosophers blushing in red-hot fires with their
  deluded pupils; so many tragedians more tuneful in the expression of their
  own sufferings; so many dancers tripping more nimbly from anguish then
  ever before from applause.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Flames, Fire

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• Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Faces, Facts, Spirituality

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• One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self, Challenges, Limiting Beliefs

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• Every religious tradition on which we draw has a reverence for life. We are a part of an intricate web of life. Every tradition on which we draw teaches that the ultimate expression of our spirituality is our action. Deep spirituality leads to action in the world. A deep reverence for life, love of nature's complex beauty and sense of intimate connection with the cosmos leads inevitably to a commitment to work for environmental and social justice.

  Peter Morales

  Religious, Love Life, Commitment

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• For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily rouitine are as much a commentary of racial ideas as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Life, Appreciation, Betrayal

  Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.17, Tuttle Publishing

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