Expression Quotes - Page 26

• As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Literature, Matter, Facts

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• In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Integrity, Self Esteem, Culture

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• In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Country, Mean, Europe

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• Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Art, Preference, Enormous

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• The creation of all those symbols and logotypes which are an ever more striking feature of the world in which we live calls for a new and fresh approach to lettering in the part of the designer. In these logotypes the combination of letters can be more or less obvious; but only deliberately contrived encounters of elements and confrontations of values can lead beyond the letters to new forms of expression.

  Armin Hofmann

  Encounters, Elements, World

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• What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consiousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet to die. It seems like a hoax, which is why one type of cultural man rebels openly against the idea of God. What kind of deity would crate such a complex and fancy worm food?

  Ernest Becker

  Mean, Men, Animal

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

  Tom Perrotta

  Writing, Directors, Levels

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• And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.

  Ani DiFranco

  Life, Purpose, Littles

  Song: Phase, Album: Evolve, 2003

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• There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists consider that all this is merely a material process, then what they call matter, I call mind, soul, spirit, or consciousness. Possibly it is a question of terminology, since scientists too on occasion use terms that express awe and mystery. Most often, perhaps, they use the expression that some of the natural forms they encounter seem to be "telling them something."

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Soul, Mind

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.25, Crown

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• Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity."

  Kenny Smith

  Soul, Aliens, Ancient

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• For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of human language is inseparable from the coherence of the surrounding ecology, from the expressive vitality of the more-than-human terrain. It is the animate earth that speaks; human speech is but a part of that vaster discourse.

  David Abram

  Australia, Vitality, Earth

  David Abram (2012). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World”, p.179, Vintage

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• Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written structures the patterns which it is its purpose to convey. The pattern of the marks on paper is a particular instance of the pattern to be conveyed to thought. The algebraic method is our best approach to the expression of necessity, by reason of its reduction of accident to the ghostlike character of the real variable.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Character, Math

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• Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

  Edith Hamilton

  Art, World, Demand

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.

  James Meade

  Serious, Belief, Study

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• It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its pervasive role in shaping human understanding and artistic expression thereof within any given culture-regardless of the subject matter at hand.

  John Walford

  Religious, Art, Hands

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• Faith is a quality of being: of being in touch with oneself, with life, and with the universe. It is a sense of belonging to one's community, to one's country and to the earth. Above all it is a feeling of being grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It can be all of these things because it is a manifestation of life, an expression of the living force that unites all beings. It is a biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation.

  Alexander Lowen

  Faith, Country, Animal

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• From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

  Margot Asquith

  War, Men, Snakes

  Margot Asquith (1963). “Autobiography”

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• I suppose that every parent loves his child, but I know, without any suppossing, that in a large number of homes the love is hidden behind authority, or its expression is crowded out by daily duties and cares

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Children, Home, Parenting

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• Family is a collective expression of individual perspective-a living work of art.

  Wes Fesler

  Art, Parenting, Perspective

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• Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and a giving in return.

  John Wanamaker

  Gratitude, Heart, Giving

  John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”

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• In some quiet way, the expression and feelings of gratitude have a wonderful cleansing or healing nature. Gratitude brings warmth to the giver and the receiver alike.

  Robert D. Hales

  Gratitude, Healing, Feelings

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• The most meaningful and spiritual prayers I have experienced contained many expressions of thanks and few, if any, requests.

  David A. Bednar

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Gratitude

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• It is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on earth, find expression. The forces which reveal to people the happiness of living in a widened consciousness and in the joy of creative work for the whole world. You, the actors of a theatre, which is one of the centres of human culture, will never be understood by the people if you are unable to reflect the spiritual needs of your time, the now in which you are living.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Beautiful, Spiritual, People

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• The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.

  Harold Pinter

  Theatre

  Harold Pinter (1977). “Complete works”

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• There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Science, Understanding, Immature

  Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin, Paul H. Gebhard (1998). “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female”, p.195, Indiana University Press

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