Quotes with symbol

  • And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

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  • Bette Davis Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Marilyn Monroe A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Thomas Carlyle In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • George Santayana A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Joan Didion A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Bill Clinton American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Allen Klein And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Mark Twain Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Simone Weil Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Richard Dawkins I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Arne Jacobsen In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Paul Klee In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Benazir Bhutto It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • James Russell Lowell Light is the symbol of truth.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Carl Andre Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
    Cuts: Texts 1959-2004
    Carl Andre
    American minimalist artist (1935 - )
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  • Walt Disney Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Bernard Arnault Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It's a symbol.
    Bernard Arnault
    French businessman (1949 - )
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  • Bram Stoker One and all we felt that the holy calm that lay like sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an earthly token and symbol of the calm that was to reign for ever.
    Dracula (1897) Dr. Seward of Lucy Westenra
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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