#embodiment

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#brief #brief moment #change #comes #embodiment

Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#embodiment #europe #itself

I seem to myself, as in a dream, Am accidental guest in this dreadful body. ↗

— Anna Akhmatova

#illness #dreams

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#always #cobain #embodiment #great #guitar

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#before #believe #civilization #embodiment #established

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#anarchistic #area #assuming #band #definition

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#i #living #sacrifice #service #spirit

I'd read the book and liked the book, but it made me really uncomfortable trying to picture myself in this part. Here's this guy who seems to be the embodiment of every single perfect guy. ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#embodiment #every #guy #here #i

But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home. There he took up again his great Ring in Barad-dur, and dwelt there, dark and silent, until he wrought himself a new guise, an image of malice and hatred made visible; and the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#embodiment #sauron #terrible #men

When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer. ↗

— Julia Margaret Cameron

#been #before #camera #duty #embodiment