Quotation Explorer - 'Expression'

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. - Louis D. Brandeis
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. - Albert Einstein
Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person. - C.Neil Strait
Man's drive for self expression, which over centuries built his monuments, does not stay within set bounds; the creations, which yesterday were the detested and obscene, become the classics of today.
He was a man with a chest, and he wanted to give thoughtful expression to the passion of his heart. - Harvey Mansfield
I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life. - Oscar Wilde
I love you; my heart belongs to you; I am you; I lost myself in you; you are my expression, my beauty, my life and living. You are my mirror, my sun, and my moon. - Debasish Mridha
Q. How soon do you expect Argentina to be returned to democratic government?A. We believe we are already within a democratic system. Some factors are still missing, like the expression of the people's will, but nevertheless we still think we are within a democracy. - Roberto Eduardo Viola
Swearing is like any other music...If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...
Love has no contingencies, no expectations, no ideals. Love is a gift to thyself, the experience of divinity in full expression. - Erin Fall Haskell
Copyright: a system of monopoly privilege over the expression of ideas that enables government to stop consumer-friendly economic development and reward uncompetitive and legally privileged elites to fleece the public through surreptitious use of coercion. - Jeffrey Tucker
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us. - Malcolm de Chazal
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression. - Arthur Erickson
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression. - Amos Bronson Alcott
The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living… - Dione Lucas
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them. - Franz Marc
Only someone you loved could make you wear that kind of expression. Someone who had once loved you knew how to get to the part of you where the pain lived. - Dorothy Koomsoon
Magic is in simplicity. Simplicity is the ultimate expression of beauty. - Debasish Mridha
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. - Robert Frost
Life is an expression of the choices we make. - Laurie Buchanan, PhD
We can never be unique in expression -only the expression can be unique,and that uniqueness chooses us! - Drunken Mystic
When I am longing for love, every rose is the expression of my soul. - Debasish Mridha
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. - Martha Graham
Art is the expression that the soul makes without having to explain itself, nor regard the criticism of others. - Reed Abbitt Moore
Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression. - Amit Ray
The moment you are there You know but the moment cannot be explained for it is beyond language and expression. It is a moment of silence, joy, bliss, void, crying, dancing but nothing confirms to normal. - Maitreya Rudrabhayananda
Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.
You are not in love. Love is inside you longing for expression. - Debasish Mridha
To give the whole store away to match what this year's market says the unchurched want is to have the people who know least about the faith determine most about its expression. - Martin E. Marty
A smile is the expression of ecstasy of life. - Debasish Mridha
Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity - Bill Bryson
Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling. - Alfred North Whitehead
She stops chewing and brings the chains on her wrist up to her nose and sniffs. She pulls away with a mild disgusted expression. "Definitely smells like a skank... - J.A. Redmerski
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. - T. S. Eliot
Silence is the song of eternity; it is the expression of eternal beauty. - Debasish Mridha
Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. YOUR devotion to helping others is an expression of YOUR greatness. - Widad Akreyi
Beauty is the expression of the hearts truth. - Debasish Mridha
There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. - Martha Graham
Two things form the bedrock of any open society freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country."[Don’t allow religious hooligans to dictate terms (The Times of India, January 16, 2008)] - Salman Rushdie
There are no wrong people—only the wrong expression and the wrong perception. - Debasish Mridha
What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity and instead celebrates creation, critical thought, aesthetics and expression. That can’t be mass marketed. - Claire Vaye Watkins
Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating. - Andrea Dworkin
The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now. - Rick Warren
Consciousness is basic while thoughts are supreme. Speeches are nothing but the expression of thoughts and feelings. If there is no consciousness, nothing else could be there. At the same time, all forms of consciousness will not give the abilities to think and express thoughts. - Debasish Mridha
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these. - T.S. Eliot
Love is not possession, it is acceptance of everything without intention. Fear is not possession, it is acceptance of everything without mention. The act of loving your fear, to nurture this insecurity for a greater purpose, is to accept the reality of ones expression. - James C. Emlund
Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
In my relationship, she is my woman and I am her man. This designation is not one of ownership, but of passion. It is a loving and passionate expression that reflects the truth that out of over seven billion people in the world, she is my ONE. - Steve Maraboli
Profanity is the expression of a lesser mind. - Shane K.P. O'Neill
It doesn't matter if people doesn't know that you do a good thing nor the right thing. But he nor she must know your expression of love. - Olivia Sinaga
[...] the sense that everyone was incommunicado with everyone else and living on an entirely wrong plane, so that the meaning, the message, the love, or whatever it was that each life contained, never could find its expression. - Patricia Highsmith
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. - Madonna
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. - George Bernard Shaw
Feelings or Emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are in your deepest place. - Judith Wright
True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities. - Mata Amritanandamayi
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts. - Georges Rouault
As I explored my soul, now I know I have survived schizophrenia; hearing voices, reduced social engagement, emotional expression and lack of motivation. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I love deeply and admire the beauties of life and its expression in many different art forms. I am an aesthetic philosopher. - Debasish Mridha
I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face. - Johnny Depp
The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself. - Emmet Fox
Entitlement is an expression of conditional love. Nobody is ever entitled to your love. You always have a right to protect your mental, emotional, and physical well-being by removing yourself from toxic people and circumstances. - Janice Anderson
Love is not only the expression of emotion or the expression of sentiment, it is a real thing. It is the absolute reality, which influences all creation. - Debasish Mridha
Morality consists in this for each individual: to attempt each time to extend its region of clear expression, to try to augment its amplitude, so as to produce a free act that expresses the most possible in one given condition or another. -- , The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, 73 - Gilles Deleuze
failure is normal expression of an action's re-action. learning is secondary in this process .it is only prime to recognize true capacity within ourselves.it is a tool to transform the same person in new one with new value and outlook towards the same old world. - ratna m.munshi
If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself... For brevity's sake I shall use the expression 'rays'; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them 'X-rays'. - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it was the best thing in life, that little incandescence you see in people when the charm of a thing strikes them, or the humor of it. 'The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart.' That's a fact. - Marilynne Robinson
Emily squared her shoulders and said simply, I’m fine, I’m not really loving your social skills though. Don’t you know this is no way to start a conversation? Emily’s mouth clamped shut at the expression on the monsters face. - Nicole Rae
To me art means power to sway people not with my words but with a mere picture. Art means expression, not my own but of the subjects. Art means truth; because when you see a picture you see all that is real. Art is exposure, showing things in a way they haven’t been seen before. - CV
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort. - Joyce Carol Oates
The limits of freedom of expression is tautological: it ends at the point where it begins to affect the freedom of expression of others. - Rafael k Nunes
The expression of preferences is the essence of love. - Stefan Molyneux
An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it. - Michael Bassey Johnson
It is the function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new forms-the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. - William Plomer
In a democratic society freedom of expression and information are protected and government lack of concern in protecting them is a serious issue. - Arzak Khan
Powerful words, a soft embrace, & facial expression that can warm your heart. Growth shows you to appreciate what you didn't before. - April Mae Monterrosa
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. - Emma Goldman
I want freedom for the full expression of my personality. - Mahatma Gandhi
Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Art is not an afterthought or a luxury. It is the creative expression of the human experience. - RC deWinter
Crazy moment!! When you suddenly laughed because you remember something funny and then realised that strangers were lookin at you weirdly (why the hell he's laughin) and immediately you changed your expression to serious. - Khaled Besrour
Art becomes an honest expression once done for oneself. Failure of that results to empty and transparent art. - Unarine Ramaru
Affection cannot be manufactored or regulated by law. If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should be free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection, so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence. - Mahatma Gandhi
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein
To work best democracy needs a diversity of thoughts, ideas and expression. This is only possible with freedom and civility. - Kevin Stirtz
Art is an expression of inner beauty. - Debasish Mridha
Our lives are a divine expression no matter how messy and weird they may be. How much more meaningful can it get? The source is experiencing itself in form in a conscious, awake way. - Enza Vita
Only tyranny fears the full expression of liberty. - José Martí
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. - Thomas Mann
Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise. - Thomas Fuller
L’œuvre est une expression de ce qu'est l'homme, de ce qu'il sent, de ce en quoi il croit. Si elle se perpétue et si elle se développe, ce n'est pas tant à cause de l'homme qui l'a entreprise, mais parce que d'autres hommes pensent et sentent de la même façon. - Morris L.West
Prayer and faith are bound together. Faith is the inspiration for prayer, and prayer is the expression of that faith. - Elizabeth George
[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it. - John Updike
Dance means different things to different people. It is a blend of Nritta, Nritya and Natya. It is a poetic expression which tells stories to people, a subtle interfusion of drama in an otherwise classical pattern. - Shallu Jindal
Art is the expression of appreciation of beauty real or imagined. It's also an examination of what it means to be alive with all its varied things, emotions, and experiences. We are forever trying to explain ourselves to the world or the world to ourselves. - Jay Woodman
I recognise your body in liana; your expression in the eyes of a frightened gazelle; the beauty of your face in that of the moon, your tresses in the plumage of peacocks... alas! Timid friend- no one object compares to you. - Kālidāsa
We love things because they reflect our imaginative love in their expression. - Debasish Mridha
But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomaly!) that fitful stain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful. - Edgar Allan Poe
your love, your facial expression, your spirit and your words to the wise is my fervency: special for my mom and dad - S. Ikom Afriani
Loving leaders allow for individuality in style and expression. - Glenn C. Stewart
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie. - Agnes De Mille
Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development. - Alfred North Whitehead
Lack of spiritual desire should grieve us and lead us to lament its absence, to seek earnestly for its bestowal, so that our praying, henceforth, should be an expression of the soul's sincere desire. - E.M.Bounds
Words flow from love, and speech is likewise confounded by love. It is the sweetest gesture to be without words, and with words, all the same. So too is it with the lighthearted sigh an outward expression of an abundance of the heart. - Zechariah Barrett
I have no objection to the expression of political opinions in SF if they are an integral part of the story structure. I don't at all appreciate their intrusion for the purpose of converting a story into a political tract, because I consider that intellectually insulting. - Roger Zelazny
I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity. - Barack Obama
Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it. - Ayn Rand
...have always been known for their storytelling. It appears to be the supreme expression of their spirit. Perhaps they know that, without a story, there could be no nation, no culture, no civilization, no life. - I. Murphy Lewis
Our happiness should not depend on external things; it is the expression of internal attitudes. - Debasish Mridha
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. - Karl Marx
The human mind demands intellectual expansion and expression. - Brandon Notch
When one heated exchange (in English) led a commenter to write "Go fuck yourself!" in Lojban, it turned into a lengthy discussion of why he hadn't said what he meant to say, and what the proper Lojban expression for the sentiment might be. - Arika Okrent
Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith. - Gordon B. Hinckley
DANCE Defeat All Negativity (via) Creative Expression. - Shah Asad Rizvi
Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness. - Dalai Lama XIV
To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics. - Isidor Isaac Rabi
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life. - Jonathan Edwards
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man. - Hilaire Belloc
For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction. - Cynthia Occelli
The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance. - Oswald Chambers
Sex is the expression of intimacy, touching and personalized care that takes friendship another step further. There is a trinity of sex, spirituality and friendship which all need to be present. - Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney
If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of human endeavor. - Leo Tolstoy
If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state. - Robert Henri
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. - Agnes de Mille
Freedom of expression and freedom of the press are the very cornerstones of any democratic society. I firmly believe that it is the very right to question the status quo that allows a society to develop and prosper.
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings. - Joseph Conrad
Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need. - Marshall B. Rosenberg
Art is a passion with great vision and cultural expression. - Debasish Mridha
A fuller expression of Self comes from the journey for greater wholeness. - Kathryn V. White
Art is an expression of inner perception as an outer reality. - Debasish Mridha
Let everything we do and say be an expression of the beauty in our heart, always based on love. - Miguel Ruiz
A flower is symbol of beauty for eyes, but music is the expression of beauty for ears. - Debasish Mridha
It preoccupies me until it's time to leave. It seems such the right expression of grief. I am sad, so in whatever small way I can, I will tear myself apart. They've taken what's on the inside and made it visible. If I thought it wouldn't be inappropriate I'd do it myself. - Jael McHenry
Freedom of expression is more than a fashion statement. - Miss Vera
Music is the language of the soul and the expression of deep inner feelings. - Debasish Mridha
Attitude is the most beautiful expression of a positive life. - Debasish Mridha
They prised open the door in the morning. The beatific expression on hisface was exactly what one would find in a temple deity or the just dead - anunsmiling smile. The absurdity and humour was there if one could just seeit, the question and answer staring one in the face. - Srividya Srinivasan
Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism. Not only are they compatible, but you can't really have one without the other. True anarchism will be capitalism, and true capitalism will be anarchism - Murray N. Rothbard
The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books. - Vladimir Nabokov
People do not change, only expression and perception changes. - RD
It's not technology that limits us. We're the limitation. Our technology is an expression of our intelligence and creativity, so the limitations of our technology are a reflection of our own limitations. We can't fundamentally advance technology until we fundamentally advance ourselves. - Christian Cantrell
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. - Ansel Adams
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything. - Thich Nhat Hanh
The outer expression of a person often reflects the inner perception and deeper beliefs. - Debasish Mridha
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. - Mother Teresa
love is not the expression of words and really you no need to show that when you act for them your sudden unconditional decision, work, non-sense, care shows everything.... that make them special one of your world......... Bhushan - Bharat
Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void. - Barnett Newman
POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines. - Ambrose Bierce
No letter from a lover is ever more welcome, brings more joy, than a publisher's expression of interest does to a new author! - Judith Brocklehurst
What exactly does that expression mean, 'friends with benefits'? Does he provide her with health insurance? - Chuck Lorre
To talk about peace is pleasant and kind. To help others to live in peace is an expression of compassion and love. - Debasish Mridha
Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
Art is an expression of love, which you can see on the canvas. - Debasish Mridha
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. - Janet Lane
And yes, I’ll admit, I am jealous. I’m jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned expression you send his way, of every tear shed, of every glance, every touch, and every thought. I want to rip him to pieces and purge him from your mind and from your heart. But I can’t. - Colleen Houck
Real communication is not possible. That is why my message, your perception and your expression shall never be the same. - Harshit Walia
Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face. - Augusten Burroughs
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. - D. H. Lawrence
Expression is saying what you wish to say, Impression is saying what others wish to hear. - Krishna Saagar
Harnessing the unique sex energy that can only arise through sexual expression can awaken multidimensional awareness and provide you with your desired goal. - Stephen Richards
Gratitude is the expression of love for the earth and for the humanity, for the abundance of life and its untold beauty. - Debasish Mridha
You are the expression of consciousness; your thoughts are the expression of you. - Debasish Mridha
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. - Thomas Jefferson
The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see. - Edward Abbey
I'm sorry. I just meant that all this is new to me. I get lost sometimes." I give her my most honest expression. - Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War
Careful practical work is the best expression of our freedom and safeguard of our sanity. In a healthy society, such work is the means most consistently available for people to practice holiness of life, to imitate God's enabling and sustaining care for the world. - Ellen F. Davis
you live through . . . that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summing-up of all the other lives that are simultaneous with yours. It is, in other words, History, and what you are is an expression of History. - Robert Penn Warren
Every thought I have, everything I dois an expression of love to uplift you. - Debasish Mridha
We will be one step down from the Creator," she said, her olive-hued face tightening into an expression that she considered dramatic. "Imagining a world and then making it. - Walter Mosley
Wilderness holds an original presence giving expression to that which we lack, the losses we long to recover, the absences we seek to fill. Wilderness revives the memory of unity. Through its protection we can find faith in our humanity. - Terry Tempest Williams
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. - George Bernard Shaw
A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. - Hilary Mantel
In some crucial cases ... repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason’s power completely to articulate it. - Leon R. Kass
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. - Mark Twain
Authenticity matters little, though--our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility. - David P. Mikkelson
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. - Benjamin Cardozo
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. - Jane Addams
The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this. - Albert Einstein
Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism. - Eric Gibson
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. - Martha Graham
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind. - Earl Nightingale
Reckless behavior, particularly in young boys, may be the uncontrolled expression of a legitimate, even Godly, desire to strive after great and noble deeds. And when the desire for adventure follows a God-honoring course, exciting things can happen. - Hal and Melanie Young
The woman's face was grimly drawn, an ugly expression on an indescribably beautiful face. This is the Shadowdun. You know who I am, but I wish to know you more. What is your name? Her voice was rich; it sounded sweet and smooth in Athena's ears, like soft honey. She hated every last word. - Kendra Sunderson
Suicide is the selfishness at its maxima expression - Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela
Don’t pass my voice, what I said about! If you want to-pack the expression, the context and even the body language with it. Misunderstandings are like by-product of mishandling the whole transportation of what was said. - Praveen Chenna
I came up with my own expression. I like to make it hail. Yeah. That's when you throw change on sluts. - Daniel Tosh
Love is an expression of power. We can use it to transform our world. - Ericka Huggins
Dancing is a expression of desire, thoughts, and emotion in a distinctive way. - Debasish Mridha
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Our life is nothing but expression of our deepest thoughts. - Debasish Mridha
There is no person on earth so bad that he does not have something about him that is praiseworthy. Why is it, then, that we leave the good out of sight and feast our eyes on the unclean things? It is as though we enjoyed only looking at if you will pardon the expression a man's behind. - Martin Luther
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. - Edward Hopper
I remember thinking that I could disguise the way I am by somehow filtering my expression for the sake of juvenile social acceptance or I could say to the world, Here I am, if you don’t like it, don’t clap. -Boys of the Fatherless- - David C. Riggins
I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be. - Erica Eisdorfer
We all do things in a certain individual way, according to our temperaments. Every human act no matter how large or how small— is a direct expression of a man's personality, and bears the inevitable impress of his nature. - S.S. Van Dine
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls. - John Coltrane
Beauty is the expression of passion of life. - Debasish Mridha
Choosing kindness is the ultimate expression of evolved consciousness. Grow by being kind. - Amy Leigh Mercree
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate. - Alice Walker
Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible. - Robin Flower
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. - Rudolf Rocker
As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they were my best expression of love, sometimes coming out sideways, not as I intended. - David W. Earle
What then have I done? What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust.
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language. - Cicero
Consciousness is nothing but a neuro-chemical and a mechanical action of the body. Consciousness is important, but the expression of thoughts with language makes us human. Everything is conscious, but levels of consciousness are different. - Debasish Mridha
If sex is a skill, with its attendant expectations, frustrations, and failures, you are graded on performance; if it is an expression of love and commitment, you are not graded at all. - Ron Brackin
Our thoughts are not roadblocks to our meditation, they are the divine expression of the universe and the building blocks of infinite possibilities available to us in every moment. - davidji
The choices that women make sometimes seems provoking and at the same time amusing. I once met a lady who said she liked my amusing facial expression. - Michael Bassey Johnson
You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject. - Henri Matisse
You are a creative expression of the universe. You are worthy. - Russell Eric Dobda
Possession of wealth is not the happiness but expression of gratitude for the possession is the happiness. - Debasish Mridha
Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into thoughts. - Henry Sweet
liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms. - Cornel West
The ability to go anywhere in our imagination is a pure expression of individual freedom. It is a creative force that can help us transcend reality. - Esther Perel
On Valentine's Day, millions of men give millions of women flowers, cards and candy as a heartfelt expression of the emotion that also motivates men to observe anniversaries and birthdays: fear. - Dave Barry
Beauty without expression is boring. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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