Quotes by Expression It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene. Marcus Tullius Cicero expressionrelaxationmen Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others. Yet I ought to know that only music permits a succession of chords. Marguerite Yourcenar choicesexpressionwriting Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? when? why? how? Marcus Tullius Cicero expressionusemen The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time. Margaret Atwood expressionrightscountry To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming. Maria Callas singingvoiceexpression A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind. Mahatma Gandhi expressiongivingcountry Passion such as hers is all consent, asking little in return. I had merely to enter a room where she was to see her face take on that peaceful expression of one who is resting in bed. If I touched her, I had the impression that all the blood in her veins was turning to honey. Marguerite Yourcenar passionexpressionblood I remain persuaded of the inevitable and necessary complementarity of man and woman. Love, imperfect as it may be in its content and expression, remains the natural link between these two beings. To love one another! If only each partner could move sincerely towards the other! If each could only melt into the other! If each would only accept the other's qualities instead of listing his faults! If each could only correct bad habits without harping on about them! Mariama Bâ expressionmenmoving Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself. Maria Sharapova fashionexpressionway The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality. Maria Montessori vitalityexpressionchildren In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence Marcus Aurelius gratitudesadnessexpression I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this. Margaret Atwood novelistsexpressionbelieve One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects. Mahatma Gandhi expressiongivingpeople It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons at work. He later wrote of his astonishment at finding the that the British Parliament actually made laws and fixed punishments for their infraction - because unlike Muslims the English had not accepted a divine law revealed from heaven and therefore had to resort to such unsatisfactory expedients. Muslims still understand the expression 'the rule of law' very differently than do most Westerners. Margaret Thatcher takenexpressionlaw S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or at the factory, can happen between people of any gender. There is obviously something titillating about these relationships, but it isn't the sexual components that makes them ugly, they're uglier elsewhere. Nothing sexual is depraved. Only cruelty is depraved, and that's another matter. Marilyn French kitchenexpressionpeople There is a belief that love has its own justification, that it should be experienced as passionately as possible. The French have a wonderful expression, amour passion, which is the ultimate. Marilyn Yalom passionbeliefexpression Be the most wonderful expression of you that you're capable of. Marianne Williamson capableexpressionwonderful To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression. Marina Abramovic painexpressionmean Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. When you choose to love, you choose to work miracles. Marianne Williamson miracleexpressionlove-you 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. Mario Batali expressiontwomean«8990919293949596979899»
