“Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.”
Arthur C. Clarke
“When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective”
Arundhati Roy
“I know the president has deep concerns about what has happened, ... And the fact that I'm his brother, symbolically, may give some people a sense that the president really does care, as he does.”
Jeb Bush
“The fact that the union of different nationalities and denominations resulted from the liberation, this is particularly symbolic and important for our multinational country, ... As long as we feel this unity inside us, Russia will be invincible.”
Vladimir Putin
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”
Oscar Wilde
“Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
