#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

People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker. For me, they see a co-founder of Facebook. ↗

— Eduardo Saverin

#bank #banker #facebook #me #people

Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#entrepreneurial #exclusion #first #hitler #israel

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

It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis. ↗

— Nate Silver

#become #kind #little #strange #symbol

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

Today's terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic importance, or venues of bustling life like public transportation or entertainment, like nightclubs. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#civilians #distinct #economic #entertainment #importance

I believe in status symbols. ↗

— Brooks Stevens

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

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#assistant #astronaut #charge #computers #fact