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Quotes About Symbol

Ik bracht hem naar de luchthaven Charles de Gaulle en toen ik hem bij de balie van Japan Air Lines de hand drukte, voelde ik dat hij een klein metalen voorwerp tussen mijn vingers liet glijden. Het was een huzaar van de keizerlijke garde. 'Ik heb hem dubbel,' legde hij uit, 'hij zal je geluk brengen, beste jongen.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Don Rigoberto vio cómo, al paso de la carroza fúnebre, muchos transeúntes se hacían la señal de la cruz. «El miedo a morir», pensó.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Kundalini power, the symbol of raising the energy coiled at the base of the spine upward through the chakras, is called by Sri Chinmoy, 'the power of the Supreme Goddess.' Repressed or coiled in a circle, she can be poisonous both to the body and the psyche, but once risen and standing upright, she is beneficent. The power of the serpent, rightly understood, is one of the ways the Goddess overcomes duality.
~ Marion Woodman
a five-pointed star surrounded by a circle, a pentagram—the symbol for Satanists, if I remembered correctly from my college days.
~ Marisha Pessl
In such a dry spell, when advertisers were beginning to question circulation figures, and editors were racking their brains for a strong hate symbol to create interest, the delayed report from Eden came as a summer shower, that might be magnified into a flood. EDEN SILENT quickly became COLONY FEARED LOST and progressed normally to COLONY WIPED OUT.
~ Mark Clifton
In such a dry spell, when advertisers were beginning to question circulation figures, and editors were racking their brains for a strong hate symbol to create interest, the delayed report from Eden came as a summer shower, that might be magnified into a flood. EDEN SILENT quickly became COLONY FEARED LOST and progressed normally to COLONY WIPED OUT. That there was no proof of loss or destruction bothered no one in journalism.
~ Mark Clifton
when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn't. This means that the word metaphor is a metaphor. I
~ Mark Haddon
nunna daul Tsuny in the Cherokee language
~ Mark Kurlansky
a living symbol that can call into my moment of sadness a deeper sense of plenitude and generosity that is always there, but not always accessible.
~ Mark Nepo
3 What is Christianity – the central truths? If every religion has a major gift which I believe they do, then what is Christianity's gift to the world? I believe it is the Christ image of a god being plunged into raw, messy, sinful, human, broken life. He is a powerful symbol of a divine connectedness to all things, even the shit.
~ Mark Townsend
Oh God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine above Bethlehem?
~ Arthur C. Clarke
There can be no reasonable doubt: the ancient mystery is solved at last. Yet, oh God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine above Bethlehem?
~ Arthur C. Clarke
The thought of a ring around my finger always made me feel tied tight, because rings had no openings to get out of.
~ Shirley Jackson
The wet raincoat smell was exciting, carrying with it remotely the institutional smells of the college, a faint echo of a cologne Natalie had never worn in her life; near the pocket was a cigarette burn she had not made; the raincoat was in itself a symbol of going and coming, of wishing and fearing, or, precisely, the going out of a warm, firelit house into the heartbreaking cold.
~ Shirley Jackson
A button! What's a button, eh? To a bachelor, my dear friend, a button is an important thing. An entire world.
~ Sholem Aleichem
...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!
~ Henry Ward Beecher
See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.
~ James M. Barrie
Anytime you meditate, some electric jerks occur in your thigh...the symbol of premonition of an unpleasant event that has happened or will take place in future.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
The evening star,Love's harbinger.
~ John Milton
An olive leaf he brings, pacific sign.
~ John Milton
The red and white and starry blue Is freedom's shield and hope.
~ John Philip Sousa
A flag appears 'mid thunderous cheers, The banner of the Western land. The emblem of the brave and true
~ John Philip Sousa
Ve starém nÄ›meckém písmu, které se hodí snad leda k zápisu zaklínadel, vypadalo hranaté b jako h, stÃ…â"¢ední Evropa tedy pro tón nad A používá písmeno H.
~ John Powell