#symbol

Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#again #apologise #being #dimension #enough

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#am #day #great #great writer #hoping

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God. ↗

— Anya Seton

#many #may #reaches #soul #symbols

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#destroying #end #eternity #fear #love

I believe in status symbols. ↗

— Brooks Stevens

#i #i believe #i believe in #status #symbols

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it. ↗

— Norman Thomas

#flag #gesture #symbolic #want #wash

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#country #fool #freeman #himself #his

They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness. ↗

— Jim Cole

#ever #fascinating #i #intelligent #most

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. ↗

— Irwin Edman

#logic #mandate #men #moved #myth

Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#change