Image Quotes

I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. (Stephen Hawking)
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. View quote
Anne Lamott
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to... fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. View quote
Thomas Merton
Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
Nothing is stranger to man than his own image. View quote
Karel Čapek
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. View quote
Simone Weil
He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons. View quote
Carlo Goldoni
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. (G. K. Chesterton)
Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem.Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash. View quote
Jerry Seinfeld
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. View quote
George Santayana
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way. View quote
Elvis Presley
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men. View quote
Marlene Dietrich
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all. View quote
André Gide
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation-is that good for the world? View quote
Christopher Hitchens
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. (Daniel J. Boorstin)
Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image. View quote
Charles Dickens
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. View quote
Karl Marx
What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? View quote
Honoré de Balzac