Image Quotes - page 2

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you. (Tadao Ando)
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality. View quote
Thom Mayne
The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs. View quote
Kate Millett
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process. View quote
Salma Hayek
The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims. View quote
Amos Oz
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. View quote
Edmund Burke
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. View quote
Roland Barthes
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery. View quote
Karen Blixen
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. (George Bernard Shaw)
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Sometimes I'll turn the channel and there's the movie and I can honestly say that those last few minutes always fascinate me. It's one of the rare instances when image, music, and drama work effectively. View quote
Madeleine Stowe
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. View quote
Joan Didion
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
The "self-image" is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image. View quote
Timothy Garton Ash
Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals. View quote
Václav Havel
The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted out man's image and his cry. View quote
William Butler Yeats
All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Everything that is possible to be believed is an image of the truth. (William Blake)
You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life. View quote
Rahul Dravid
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth. View quote
Morris West
To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this reason, number forms, according to Jung, that particular element that unites the realms of matter and psyche. It is "real” in a double sense, as an archetypal image and as a qualitative manifestation in the realm of outer-world experience. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. View quote
Ansel Adams