Expression Quotes - Page 32

• Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

  Sam Abell

  Light, Horizon, Photographer

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• Our God is not made of stone. His heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. A cup of cold water is enough to put tears in the eyes of God. God celebrates our feeble expressions of gratitude.

  Richard J. Foster

  Gratitude, Heart, Eye

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• PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.

  Greg Graffin

  Growing Up, Punk, Reason

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• Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.

  Noah Webster

  Country, Ideas, People

  Noah Webster (1832). “A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... : in Two Volumes”, p.11

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• I am trying to represent design through drawing. I have always drawn things to a high degree of detail. That is not an ideological position I hold on drawing but is rather an expression of my desire to design and by extension to build. This has often been mistaken as a fetish I have for drawing: of drawing for drawing’s sake, for the love of drawing. Never. Never. Yes, I love making a beautiful, well-crafted drawing, but I love it only because of the amount of information a precise drawing provides

  Neil Denari

  Beautiful, Drawing, Design

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• Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God. If we would trust God for our persecuted brothers and sisters in other countries, we must be diligent in prayer for their rulers. If we would trust God when decisions of government in our own country go against our best interests, we must pray for His working in the hearts of those officials and legislators who make those decisions. The truth that the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord is meant to be a stimulus to prayer, not a stimulus to a fatalistic attitude.

  Jerry Bridges

  Country, Brother, Kings

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.81, NavPress

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• We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.

  Jerry Bridges

  Needs, Culture, Sin

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• I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of man certainly interest me deeply, but I am less concerned with expressing the motions of the soul and mind than to render visible, so to speak, the inner flashes of intuition which have something divine in their apparent insignificance and reveal magic, even divine horizons, when they are transposed into the marvellous effects of pure plastic art.

  Gustave Moreau

  Art, Passion, Men

  "Gustave Moreau". Book by Jean Paladilhe and Josbe Pierrep, translated by Bettina Wadia, p. 32, 1972.

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• Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression.

  Amit Ray

  Light, Soul, Shadow

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• Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.

  Esther Perel

  Loyalty, Trouble, Monogamy

  Twitter post from Sep 22, 2014

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• It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)

  Ravi Ravindra

  Attachment, Order, Way

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• Grief is an expression that you loved well.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Grief, Wells

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• I will follow anyone... and invite everyone... too unite and defend the freedom of expression.

  Widad Akrawi

  Freedom Of Expression, Invites

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• Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there in the first place and apprehensive of playing without dots. Music theory does not help here; it teaches rules of the grammar, but not what to say. When people ask me how to improvise, only a little of what I can say is about music. The real story is about spontaneous expression, and it is therefore a spiritual and a psychological story rather than a story about the technique of one art form or another.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Spiritual, Art, Real

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.9, Penguin

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• There are some men who possess a quality which goes way beyond romantic or even sexual appeal, a quality which literally enslaves. It has very little to do with looks and nothing at all to do with youth, because there are some quite mature and unathletic specimens who have it. It's an expression in the eyes, an aura of being in control, and responsible, or something easy and powerful in the stance, or who knows.

  Lucille Kallen

  Powerful, Eye, Men

  Lucille Kallen (1981). “Introducing C.B. Greenfield”

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• Artists make art for themselves. Art is an honest expression. Artists who pander to their fans by trying to make music "for" their fans make empty, transparent art. The true fan does not want you to make music for them, they want you to make music for you, because that's the whole reason they fell in love with you in the first place.

  Talib Kweli

  Art, Love You, Trying

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• A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

  Dario Fo

  Theatre, Doe, Literature

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• Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience in a studio than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.

  Carl Theodor Dreyer

  Inspiration, Land, Poetry

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• The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird leave manifold impression in us. And suddenly, without our wishing it at all, one of these memories spills from us and finds expression in musical language...I want to sing my interior landscape with the simple artlessness of a child.

  Claude Debussy

  Children, Memories, Simple

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• Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives.

  Gary Zukav

  Summer, Moving, School

  "Twin Miracles" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2012.

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• When we begin to experience our life as the miraculous expression of divinity - not occasionally, but all the time - then we will know the true meaning of success.

  Deepak Chopra

  Divinity, Miraculous, Knows

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.9, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Joy, Eulogy

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.701, GENERAL PRESS

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• True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression in yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself.

  Debbie Ford

  Strong, Believe, Thinking

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• Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy; rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands interior conversion to love of God and neighbor, in imitation of Jesus Christ, who, dying on the cross, gave his entire self for us.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Self, Dying

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• For the introvert, conversation can be a very limited forum for self expression. When a song moves you, a writer gets you or a theory enlightens you, you and its creator are connecting in a realm beyond sight or speech.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Song, Moving, Sight

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.72, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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