Quotes About Symbol

The poplars were a symbol. It was only the light from behind the poplars that made their silhouettes visible.

The first two letters of the name Pluto are the initials of Percival Lowell. Its symbol is , a planetary monogram. But Lowell's lifelong love was the planet Mars. He was electrified by the announcement in 1877 by an Italian astronomer, Giovanni Schiaparelli, of canali on Mars.

The early Sumerian pictograph for god was an asterisk, the symbol of the stars. The early Aztec word for god was Teotl, and its glyph was a representation of the Sun. The heavens were called Teoatl, the godsea, the cosmic ocean.

You can't inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol.

You couldn't escape the pointy hat, though. There was nothing magical about a pointy hat except that it said that the woman underneath it was a witch. People paid attention to a pointy hat.

Hats defined the head. They defined who you were.

I love the concept of unity and diversity Ã¢â'¬Â¦ most decisions are based on a tiny difference. People say this was right and that wrong—the difference was a feather Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I keep scales wherever I am to remind me of that Ã¢â'¬Â¦ They're a symbol of my awareness of the distortion most people have of what's better and what isn't. LSR

This unsub is a classic picquerist. Someone who uses a knife to achieve secondary or indirect sexual release. Picquerism is the act of stabbing or cutting, any repeated penetration of the skin with a sharp object. The knife is a phallic symbol--a substitution for the male sexual organ. Instead of performing normal sexual intercourse, our unsub achieves his release by subjecting his victim to pain and terror. It's the power that thrills him. Ultimate power, over life and death.

This unsub is a classic picquerist. Someone who uses a knife to achieve secondary or indirect sexual release. Picquerism is the act of stabbing or cutting, any repeated penetration of the skin with a sharp object. The knife is a phallic symbol--a substitution for the male sexual organ. Instead of performing normal sexual intercourse, our unsub achieves his release by subjecting his victim to pain and terror.

Everyone knows what Kenny Dalglish means to Liverpool: he is probably the badge on the shirt.

What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city.

Val Kilmer gave my husband, David Mamet, a Randall knife as a gift when the two of them were making the film 'Spartan.'

The kiss....was not meant to seduce, it was meant to mark a woman's soul. Chloe

My father has the "settler's scar," a pink star scored into the brown leather of his palm by the handle of the moldboard plow.

A second later, he put on his Breton cap.

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

There are three elements of the traditionalist pathway: ritual (or liturgical pattern); symbol (or significant image); and sacrifice. Evelyn Underhill, a popular Christian writer in the early part of this century, calls these three elements "sensible signs of supra-sensible action."9 They are ways we use the physical world to express nonphysical (spiritual) truths.

There is a button on most calculators that computes the square root for you. It is usually denoted by the symbol "?" and one would normally write things like 3 = ?9. As you can see, the square root is the opposite of squaring, 42 = 16 and ?16 = 4.

A seven-armed golden lampstand is perpetually aflame with holy oil to light the tent. It is shaped like a blossoming almond tree, a symbol of the tree of life in the Garden of Eden so long ago. But it is also considered the 'light of the world' that gives light to all men.

understanding Leviathan in its ancient Near Eastern (ANE) and Biblical covenantal background. In ANE religious mythologies, the sea and the sea dragon were symbols of chaos that had to be overcome to bring order to the universe, or more exactly, the political world order of the myth's originating culture. Some scholars call this battle Chaoskampf—the divine struggle to create order out of chaos.

A child isn't a symbol, it's a child! It needs applesauce and, and, and playpens and an ass-load of other things we can't provide while we're on the goddamn lam! Just to be clear. Your exact words to me were: "Please shoot it in my twat." Yeah. I know.

But I didn't say this to my aunt. Instead, I said, "America is number one." This had been the campaign slogan of the man who would eventually become our president. Charles Otis, my old classmate and neighbor, was one of his supporters and had taken to wearing a red mesh baseball hat with that slogan on its face, although on Charles's hat the symbol was on the wrong side of the number: AMERICA IS 1#.

The ability to expend energy, especially in the form of other people's labour, in non-utilitarian ways, is the most basic and universally understood symbol of power.

Stonewall Jackson was the symbol of Southern resistance, but his sister Laura, a Union sympathizer, remained unshaken in her devotion to the Old Republic, and was applauded for her stand by Federal soldiers. She sent a message by a Union soldier to the effect that she could "take care of wounded Federals as fast as brother Thomas would wound them.