Quotes about expression
expression impression
A picture is the expression of an impression Ernst Haas
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. Gil Scott-Heron
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 giving charity
Giving is the highest expression of potency. Erich Fromm
expression practice limitless
Diligently practice identifying yourself as a limitless expression of an unliminted Universe.
expression sometimes things-to-do
One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
expression limitless creation
We are human in expression, but divine in creation and limitless in potentiality.
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 best-work
Your best work is your expression of yourself. Frank Gehry
expression design may
Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert. Frank Gehry
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 goodness wholeness
We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God. Erwin McManus
expression class skills
I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry. Erland Josephson
expression law ideas
Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever. Let us get rid of the idea of power from law altogether. Call law tabulation of facts, expression of facts, or what you will; anything rather than suppose that it either explains or compels. Florence Nightingale
expression cooking avant-garde
The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking. Ferran Adria
expression growth decay
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. Henry Miller