Quotes About Symbol

debt is dumb, cash is king, and the paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice.

If in the place of God we write "Reality", "Nature", "Unknowable", or "Zero", it matters not one whit; the equation is just as obscure; for all we have done is to replace a by b, c, d, or e, not knowing what these letters mean. The symbol has changed, but what it symbolizes remains as inscrutable.

The insignia would be meaningless to all but a few people, most of whom were dead. See you soon, boys.

The shortest national anthem in the world is the Japanese one, which only consists of four lines. The Greek anthem on the other hand features an incredible 158 verses.

The symbol of the University is the iron statue outside the Rathskeller of a barefoot goosegirl that every student kisses at graduation. The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known but to question it.

La comunicación simbólica es la manifestación directa de un nivel de conciencia determinado y, por tanto, de la posibilidad de desarrollarlo. La capacidad de expresar un gran contenido conceptual por medio de un símbolo es el camino de toda una expansión consciente.

The image of the ancient fasces (bundled birch rods and axes) was already old when Rome adopted it as a symbol of state.

Con cada libro adoptamos un miedo, pequeñito y delicado como un gusano de seda. El miedo a no hacer justicia a las palabras del otro, a no ser capaz de crear una metáfora digna del momento, un símbolo propio de esa voz o aquella mirada, el temor de habernos traicionado y escribir desde el ego y no desde alma.

which he placed on the fourth finger of his right hand.

Up to now, Mary's own impresa, chosen while she was in France

He then raised the heavy gold crown above his head.

the mythical bird that set fire to itself and rose anew from the ashes every five hundred years;

She laid her crucifix and prayer book on her stool

Beneath it is a winged heart with a huge sapphire as its centerpiece

Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his happiness, his promise.

The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.

If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth. They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol.

don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into awareness through the back door.

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy...

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!

A man's kiss is his signature.

The auric body of a snake is one of the most remarkable sights that the clairvoyant will ever see, and the secrets concealed within its aura demonstrate why the serpent is the symbol of wisdom among so many nations.

Down here everything is symbol and mystery.