#symbolic

I am telling you that I am very grateful and am so proud of you for being a symbolic generation that is calling for change to the better, that is dreaming for a better future, and is making the future. ↗

— Hosni Mubarak

#being #better #better future #calling #change

I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing. ↗

— Martha Smith

#controversy #i #i think #important #issues

In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#broader #countries #european #european countries #expression

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts. ↗

— Edmund Leach

#cook #food #men #reasons #show

I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#behind #else #fascist #had #i

as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#fiction #ideology #imaginary #philosophy #real

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses. ↗

— Henry Williamson

#every #everything #expression #gesture #senses

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#because #bit #consolations #contempt #false

One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation. ↗

— Eric Holder

#cannot #eliminating #head #importance #know

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword. ↗

— Ang Lee

#existence #factor #feminine #know #meaning