Quotes about expression
expression judging people
Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.
expression giving anxiety
It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself-anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face ... was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime ... George Orwell
expression stranger knows
Change is a stranger you have yet to know. George Michael
expression people consciousness
The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people. Frantz Fanon
expression causes emotion
It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. Jeanette Winterson
expression glasses break-out
Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.
expression people faces
The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present. Francoise Sagan
expression leader democracy
Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the Corporate State. It purports to cherish democracy, patriotism, and the Constitution while manipulating internal levers. Chris Hedges
expression ideas criticism
The whole point of free expression is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them to it. Garry Wills
expression ideas people
I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is very generally trampled upon and disregarded. The best expression of it, I have found in the Bible. It is in substance, "Righteousness exalteth a nation; sin is a reproach to any people" [Proverbs 14:34]. This constitutes my politics - the negative and positive of my politics, and the whole of my politics. . . . I feel it my duty to do all in my power to infuse this idea into the public mind, that it may speedily be recognized and practiced upon by our people. Frederick Douglass
expression rocks aphrodisiac
Rock n' roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it's brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents of the earth. Frank Sinatra
expression soul gestures
I walk along a street and see in the faces of the passersby not the expression they really have but the expression they would have for me if they knew about my life and how I am, if I carried, transparent in my gestures and my face, the ridiculous, timid abnormality of my soul. Fernando Pessoa
expression mass our-thoughts
Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass. Ferdinand de Saussure
expression ideas lazy
A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas. Felix Frankfurter
expression self people
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world. Fay Weldon
expression law simplicity
The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression. Eugene Wigner
expression doctrine liberalism
The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant Francis Parker Yockey
expression people way
The way you get to know yourself is by the expression on other people's faces. Gil Scott-Heron
expression mirrors people
The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that's the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.
expression suffering dare
Those of us who are locked into ineffective expressions of anger suffer as deeply as those of us who dare not get angry at all. Harriet Lerner
expression ideas office
Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings. Harriet Beecher Stowe
expression church establishment-clause
The Establishment Clause . . . stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders . . . that religion is too personal, too sacred, too holy, to permit its 'unhallowed perversion' by a civil magistrate. Hugo Black
expression desire devastation
This is the great truth life has to teach us ... that gratification of our individual desires and expression of our personal preferences without consideration for their effect upon others brings in the end nothing but ruin and devastation. Hortense Odlum
expression violence impotence
Violence is an expression of impotence. Hannah Arendt
expression language reason
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. George Boole
expression perfect silence
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. George Bernard Shaw
expression discipline missing
It is essential... that discipline should not be practised like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of one's own will; that it is felt as pleasant, and that one slowly accustoms oneself to a kind of behaviour which one would eventually miss, if one stopped practising it. Erich Fromm
expression hear phone sing testing theory
The theory is that Mariah Carey can sing anything. You hear that expression, 'She can sing the phone book.' So if you can really sing, you should be able to sing anything, so we're testing them. That's the whole competition. Randy Jackson
expression free gains harassment local national recent stop urge
It would be very unfortunate if recent national gains in free expression were undermined by the local prosecutor. We urge all authorities to stop this harassment of the press.
expression value watergate
Watergate was an expression of Nixon's world view, personality and value system. Bob Woodward
expression
What this is, is an expression in free-market democracy.
expression love seeing
Is it real? I love seeing the expression on people's faces.
expression outside thinking
What?s that expression? ... Thinking outside the box? Mitch Kupchak