Top 1200 Expression Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities... the expression of love... then life itself loses its meaning.
A liar often smiles subtly while telling a lie; it's an unconscious expression of his delight in getting away with a whopper.
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.
Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults
Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.
Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive.
Rock n' roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it's brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents of the earth.
Because I express myself through the music, I want to be responsible in that expression and how it carries on well after I'm here. But that's just me.
In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of artistic expression.
The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.
Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.
I think that, like any art, fashion is about expression. It allows you to express yourself and your identity through what you choose to wear.
A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.
The flute is traditionally the property of the male side of matrilineal hunter-gatherer societies and was used as a means of communication and personal expression.
A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.
In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.
Coaching is effective self-expression in the coach/client relationship so that you catalyze your clients' manifestation of their own desired outcomes.
It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.
For the last 14 years or so, I've been a fighter for so long I kind of forgot what it's like to not have this as my biggest form of expression of who I am.
The freedom of personal expression, ideas and imagination, working in collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds - is what's needed to spawn creativity.
Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because they emphasize harmony.
I'll keep creating modern, deep, rich and adventurous colors and products that inspire creative expression every day.
It will appeal to girls who are confident and have a strong personal expression of style and identity in the way that they dress and what this says about themselves.
I can play a lot of things, but I haven't mastered any one. I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world.
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.
Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots in the past and is almost universal.
Let's teach boys at school the personally and economically valuable skills of self-expression and emotional intelligence, of mediation and problem-solving.
There is nothing unholy or degrading about sexuality in itself, for by that means men and women join in a process of creation and in an expression of love
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.
The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.
In whatever number of years I have on Earth, I think that promoting the values of free expression, the openness of the Internet, that's the best use of my time.
We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!
You cannot force someone to accept an expression of love. You can only offer it. If it is not accepted, you must respect the other person's decision.
The entire universe is just an expression, projection, of the Being, of the Self. Within this small body, you are able to experience the infinite space.
I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.
Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.
Once citadels of free expression and occasional revolutionary ideas, today many American colleges have endorsed political correctness.
When it comes to soul, Dennis Marcellino redefines the term. His remarkable tone and feel are full of passion and soulful expression.
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
Life is entirely unthinkable without any of the creative arts, and they're all a continuum - the force in question is creativity, not its mode of expression.
I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
Marxism is the only doctrine that both satisfies the demands for progress and provides a safe outlet for moral expression in a skeptical age.
I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.
I hope that all critical Muslims read the ruling in full, because it states very clearly what freedom of expression in Denmark is about.
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.
In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my own thoughts.
I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance.
Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.
Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.
When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.
Yisrael Beiteinu has no objection to the nonviolent expression of opinion. It is violent speech that forms a clear and present danger that we refuse to tolerate.
Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very well.
The worst expression of the Prophet’s (Sallallahu ‘Alayhi Wa Sallam) anger towards his wife was that he would remain silent.
I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be... it's not art, it's expression.
