Symbol Quotes - page 3

They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep, and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list...their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness. (Ben Hecht)
O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven - of silkworm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon! View quote
Marianne Moore
A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague. View quote
Marianne Moore
I am proud that for the first time in the history of Afghanistan, I am raising the flag of such a people, who are producing all material and immaterial equipment necessary for the life in this country and who make all efforts for prosperity and serendipity of the society. This glorious and magnificent red flag is the symbol of the greatness and pride of these people. View quote
Nur Muhammad Taraki
Now we are proud that the government has moved from the class of the exploiters to the class of the people who were being exploited. And in the great name of the same class, I raise this nation's flag which is a strong symbol of this transfer. View quote
Nur Muhammad Taraki
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. View quote
Oscar Wilde
He [Tinky Winky] is purple-the gay-pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle-the gay pride symbol. View quote
Jerry Falwell
An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970. View quote
Jonathan Franzen
The bleeding-heart symbol does not represent any known revolutionary organization. View quote
Larry Niven
Politics have always covered two distinct kinds of problems: problems of administrative routine, and those that may be called 'questions of the moment.'... A question of the moment is, indeed, a substitute for some notion, such as the idea of God, or hereditary monarchy, or national glory, that has hitherto acted as a symbol of human co-ordination. It provides no new positive certainty to replace the discredited certainty, but is what the name implies: the raising of a question which the old certainty no longer answers. View quote
Laura Riding
Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children. (Charles Stross)
... the Coleman lantern is the symbol of the camping craze that is currently sweeping America, with its unholy white light burning in the forests of America. View quote
Richard Brautigan
The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality. View quote
Pat Robertson
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry. View quote
Jacob Bronowski
No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by the word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes him or herself a better human being than their nature wants to be, if they followed their nature only. Whatever its symbol -- cross or crescent or whatever -- that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race. View quote
William Faulkner
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world. View quote
Harold Pinter
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity. View quote
Pierre-Simon Laplace
The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world. View quote
Virginia Foxx
The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol. View quote
Herbert Read
I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me- and that I've made of myself- as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered. (Marilyn Monroe)
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives. View quote
Angela Merkel
It really is worth the trouble to invent a new symbol if we can thus remove not a few logical difficulties and ensure the rigour of the proofs. But many mathematicians seem to have so little feeling for logical purity and accuracy that they will use a word to mean three or four different things, sooner than make the frightful decision to invent a new word. View quote
Gottlob Frege
Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough! View quote
Michael Bloomberg