Quotes About Image

He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.

God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of God He created them. God is the original plagiarizer. With a lack of reasonable sources from which to filch - man created in the image of what? the animals? - the creation of man was an act of reflexive plagiarizing; God looted the mirror. When we plagiarize, we are likewise creating in the image and participating in the completion of Creation.

Waarom? Omdat god de plagiaris liefheeft. Niet voor niets staat geschreven: 'En God schiep de mens naar Zijn beeld; naar het beeld van God schiep Hij hem.' God is de eerste aller plagiarissen. [...] Dus als wij plagiaat plegen, scheppen wij in feite 'naar het beeld van' en dragen we bij aan de vervolmaking van de schepping.

Your heart, mind, hands and feet are stamped with the imprint of the Creator. Little wonder that the Devil wants you to be ashamed of your body.

Tutti assomigliamo all'immagine che gli altri hanno di noi.

Todos nos parecemos a la imagen que tienen de nosotros.

In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts tell more about ourselves than our confessions.

The image of God is your final obstruction to a religious experience.

A mythological image that has to be explained to the brain is not working.

La imagen interior del hombre no debe confundirse con su atuendo.

From this point of view the hero is symbolical of that divine creative and redemptive image which is hidden within us all, only waiting to be known and rendered into life.

Such an image of one's god becomes a final obstruction, one's ultimate barrier. You hold on to your own ideology, your own little manner of thinking, and when a larger experience of God approaches, an experience greater than you are prepared to receive, you take flight from it by clinging to the image in your mind. This is known as preserving your faith.

Mythology -and therefore civilization- is a poetic, supernormal image, conceived, like all poetry, in depth, but susceptible of interpretation on various levels.

Your product has a voice — and it's talking to your customers 24 hours a day.

Welcome aboard Mon Remonda. Let's get the rest of your pilots in... so I can get out of this torture suit." "But, sir, I was just going to say how smart you looked in your uniform. I think we ought to stay here, in uniform, a couple of hours so the holographers can capture the image. You know, for the historians." "Wedge, I think I'm going to have you killed." "Yes, sir. I trust you'll wear your dress uniform for an event like that.

I have crusaded across his empire for over a century, raising icons and faiths in his image – and only now he objects? After a hundred years, only now am I told that all I've done is wrong?

The image of the Church favored by the Pope is that of a "field hospital" that welcomes in those injured and heals their wounds. Meanwhile, for fundamentalists, their image of the Church is "the fortress on the hilltop" that protects the "true believers" and defends the true faith against all the enemies of God.

the packaging is more important than the content.

The ego is a palpable body part in an attorney, perhaps the most prominent body part.

People virtually never get two chances to make a good first impression. It is also a lot harder to reverse a bad first impression than to make a good first impression.

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

Art cannot be excused from following God's law, and art disgraces itself by seeking that freedom. Anything that cannot be put into an image or onto a canvas without demanding the sacrifice of modesty or injuring shame must simply be eschewed. Art is not autonomous. Art is one of the more refined human life expressions, and all these life expressions are organically related and stand continuously under God's ordinance.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.