Quotes About Image

1. Recognize that the central and centering image of Revelation is the Lamb that was slaughtered.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

He is the antithesis of the gregarious pol with a highball in one hand and a cigar in his mouth, offering a colorful dose of political lore under a dim bar light.

He smiled at the sudden image of Prometheus tossing cars from one side of the bridge to the other to build his barrier. He heard the tiny tinkle of glass and wondered if being tossed across the Golden Gate Bridge by an Elder was covered by insurance.

It's a plant." Burke's father stared at the laptop's screen, peering over his glasses at the photos as Burke brought them up. "It's not just a plant, Ed," Lucy said, looking at Burke and shaking her head. "It's about the feeling of the image." Burke's father snorted. "Well, it feels like a plant." He turned to his son. "I'm not saying it's not pretty. But it's a plant.

Donald Trump, even more than his father, was perceived as a vulgarian—after all, he put his name on his buildings, quite a déclassé thing to do.

The story of Trump was the story of how he tried to make himself a story.

The Trump White House stood less for government and the push-pull of competing interests and developing policies, and more, in a brand-savvy world, as a fixed and unpopular cultural symbol.

Trump often spoke of himself in the third person. Trump did this. The Trumpster did that. So powerful was this persona, or role, that he seemed reluctant, or unable, to give it up in favor of being president—or presidential.

From the Bannon side, Pence garnered only contempt. "Pence is like the husband in Ozzie and Harriet, a nonevent," said one Bannonite. Although many saw him as a vice president who might well assume the presidency someday, he was also perceived as the weakest vice president in decades and, in organizational terms, an empty suit who was useless in the daily effort to help restrain the president and stabilize the West Wing.

He was, after all, Donald Trump, however much you shined him up.

Trump, perhaps not yet appreciating the difference between becoming president and elevating his social standing,

Hicks, sponsored by Ivanka and ever loyal to her, was in fact thought of as Trump's real daughter, while Ivanka was thought of as his real wife.

he lied about his height to keep from having a body mass index that would label him as obese),

There was some argument about this, because he could read headlines and articles about himself, or at least headlines on articles about himself,

How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

Vladimir Poutine est d'autant plus martial qu'il n'a jamais connu la guerre. S'il aime à projeter l'image d'un héros viril, c'est qu'il est hanté par elle.

The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.

La carne del mundo es sustituida por su imagen numerizada; el ser de las cosas es suplantado por el gráfico de sus variaciones.

L'image est douée d'une force mauvaise. Elle n'est pas la servante dévouée et fidèle que tu voudrais. Elle prend toutes les apparences d'une servante, oui, mais en vérité elle est sournoise, menteuse et impérieuse. Elle aspire de toute sa mauvaiseté à te reduire en esclavage.

I've always said that the actor is only an element of the image, rarely the most important. The actor is important with his dialogue, with the landscape, with a gesture but the actor in himself is nothing.

We know that under the image revealed there is another which is truer to reality and under this image still another and yet again still another under this last one, right down to the true image of that reality, absolute, mysterious, which no one will ever see or perhaps right down to the decomposition of any image, of any reality.

Popularity can be a real headache.

But when He became incarnate, and was made man, He commenced afresh the long line of human beings, and furnished us, in a brief, comprehensive manner, with salvation; so that what we had lost in Adam—namely to be according to the image and likeness of God—that we might recover in Jesus Christ