Expression Quotes - Page 99

Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.

The whole "weak in the knees" thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real. -Suite Scarlett

There is a power in names. Olakunde told us of ashe-the power which runs through all things, subtle and flexible, which find its most potent expression in human utterance; so that it is a terrible thing to call down imprecations on an enemy, or to wish for anything but good, for what is said out loud is forged into truth.

Wavering and burning like a golden lie.

Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry.

Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral and intellectual qualities of human beings-upon the spirit that animates mankind.

We cannot leave the expression of our lives to those better qualified than we are, however dear they may be.

A nation's art is the expression of its soul.

Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

Violence in any form is a tragic expression of our unmet needs.

Needs are the expression of life through us.

an expression of surprise falls from her face, though she's trying to keep it. it breaks off and she seems to catch it and fidget with it in her hands.

Every individual's purpose in tithing is to open up his/her awareness of universal laws. Tithing opens you, to you. You are an unlimited individual, deprived of a fuller, richer life partly because of lack of the tithing experience and expression in life.

Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other... for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone.

There's an expression in Yiddish, which is "der gelernte naar" - a "learned fool." You can know a great deal, you can have a Ph.D., and you can still be a total idiot.

Here [in the USA], you have the best laws for freedom of expression. The problem is that expression can be bought by people who don't want you have it. Apparently, true patriotism destroys freedom of expression.

I can tell in two minutes if I should hire someone in the kitchen. Two minutes. It's his desire. It's that open-eyed, attentive expression. If he doesn't have it ... I mean, I can teach a chimp how to cook dinner. But I cannot teach a chimp how to love it.

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.

I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my work is about - have been very hard on me. There is an expression in Alcoholics Anonymous called "contempt prior to investigation." I feel many people practice contempt prior to investigation.

Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love in service to mankind.

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. When you choose to love, you choose to work miracles.