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  • Nous voulons tous louer a'   l'anne  e et nous ne pouvons jamais louer que pour une semaine ou pour unjour. C'est l'image de la vie. Wewould all liketo leaseforayearand we canonly lease for a week or from day to day. That is the image of life.

    -Jean Anouilh
      Le Rendez-vous de Senlis, act1.

  • Pulchritudo enim creaturae nihil est aliud quam similitudo divinae pulchritudinis in rebus participata. The beautyofcreaturesisnothingother thananimage of the divine beauty in which things participate.

    - StThomas Aquinas
    c.1260  Commentarium in Dionysii De Divinibus Nominibus, bk.4, ch.5.

  • The image of myself which Itry to createinmyownmind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which Itry to createintheminds ofothersinorder that they may love me.

    -W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden
      The Dyer's Hand,'Hic et Ille'.

  •    Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

    -John Peter Berger
      In New Statesman and Society,15  Jul.

  • At the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Genesis 9:5^6.

  • And God spake all these words, saying,Iamthe L thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that isinheaven above, or that isin the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the L thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Thoushalt nottakethename of the L thy God invain; for the L will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Remember thesabbath day, to keep it holy. Six daysthou shalt labour and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the L thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the L made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the L blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long uponthelandwhichtheL thy Godgiveththee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDORDORDORDORDORDORDExodus 20:1^17.

  • God, whoat sundry times and indiversmannersspake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom he also made the worlds: Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Hebrews1:1^3.

  •    They used language concentrating emotion, detail and image until theyarrived at a form of dew-like steel.

    - Richard Brautigan
      On  Japanese poets.  June 30th^ June 30th.

  • He cried inawhisperat some image, at some visionhe cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: 'The horror! The horror!'

    -Korzeniowski
      Kurtz's final words. Heart of Darkness, pt.3 (first published in Blackwood's Magazine, collected in Youth:  A Narrative, and Two Other Stories,1902).

  • Les beaute  s ont, dans les arts, le me"  me fondement que les ve  rite  s dans la philosophie.Qu'est-ce que la ve  rite  ? La conformite   de nos jugements avec les e"  tres. Qu'est-ce que la beaute   d'imitation? La conformite   de l'image avec la chose. Beauty has in art the same foundation as does truth in philosophy. What is the truth? The conformity of our judgements with beings. What is the beauty of imitation? The conformity of the image with the thing.

    - Denis Diderot
      Entretiens sur le fils naturel, pt.3.

  •    If the devil doesn't exist, but manhas created him, hehas created him in his own image and likeness.

    -James Harold Doolittle
    ^80  The Brothers Karamazov, bk.5, ch.4.

  • Then Israel's monarch, after Heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did, variously, impart To wives and slaves: and, wide as his command, Scattered his Maker's image through the land.

    -John Dryden
    Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.7^10.  An oblique reference to Charles II, who had no legitimate, but many illegitimate, children.

  • Her pencil drew whate'er her soul designed, And oft thehappydraft surpassed the image in her mind.

    -John Dryden
      'To the Pious Memory of the  AccomplishedYoung Lady Mrs  Anne Killigrew'.

  • In every parting there is an image of death.

    - George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans Eliot
      Scenes of Clerical Life, ch.10.

  • Fashion is the image of an age and can tells its story better than a speech.

    - Karl Lagerfeld
      In the Daily  Telegraph, 20 Oct.

  • The identifying ourselves with the visual image of ourselves has become an instinct; the habit is already old. The picture of me, the me that is seen, is me.

    - D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
      'Art and Morality'.

  • We have been too comfortable and too indulgentmany, perhaps, too selfishand the stern hand of fatehasscoured ustoan elevationwhere we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation; the great peaks we had forgotten, of honour, duty, patriotism, and, clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.We shall descend into the valleys again, but as long as men and women of thisgeneration last, they will carry in their hearts the image of those great mountain peaks, whose foundations are not shaken, though Europe rock and sway in the convulsions of a great war.

    - David, 1st Earl Lloyd George (of Dwyfor)
      Speech, London,19 Sep.

  • Best image of myself and dearer half.

    -John Milton
       Adam to Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.5, l.95.

  • If I be evil intreated, or sent away with a flea in mine ear, let him look that Iwill rail onhimsoundly; nor foranhour or a day, whiles the injury is fresh in my memory; but in some elaborate polished poem, which I will leave to the world when I am dead, to be a living image to all ages of his beggarly parsimony and ignoble illiberality.

    -Thomas Nashe
      Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Devil, 'An Invective Against Enemies of Poetry'.

  • Sie schafft immer dieWelt nach ihrem Bilde, sie kann nicht anders; Philosophie ist dieser tyrannischeTreib selbst, der geistigsteWille zur Macht, zur 'Schaffung der Welt'. It [philosophy] alwayscreatestheworld inits ownimage, it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical drive itself, themost spiritual will topower, to'creationof the world'.

    - FriedrichWilhelm Nietzsche
      Jenseits von Gut und Bo«  se (Beyond Good and Evil), section 9 (translated by R  J Hollingdale).

  • God must have loved the People in Power, for he made them so very like their own image of him.

    - Kenneth Patchen
    Quoted byAdrian Mitchell in The Guardian,1 Feb1972.

  • Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power†but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.

    - Octavio Paz
      Alternating Current.

  • In each she marks her image full exprest, But chief, inTibbald's monster-breeding breast; Sees Gods with Daemons in strange league ingage, And earth, and heav'n, and hell her battles wage.

    - Alexander Pope
      The Dunciad, bk.1, l.105^8.

  • The response is to the image, not to the man, since 99 percent of the voters have no contact with the man.

    - Raymond Price
      Memo, 28 Nov. Quoted in the NewYorkTimes, 31 Oct1993.

  • Le temps qui change les e"  tres ne modifie pas l'image que nous avons garde  e d'eux. Although time changes people, it cannot change the image we have already made of them.

    - Marcel Proust
    ' 1927  A la recherche du temps perdu,'LeTemps retrouve ' .

  • La visio  n de una Ame  rica deslatinizada por propia voluntad, sin la extorsio  n de la conquista, y regenerada luego a imagen y semejanza del arquetipo del Norte, flota ya sobre los suen‹  os de muchos sinceros interesados por nuestro porvenir† Tenemos nuestra nordoman|a. Es necesario oponerle los l|mites que la razo  n y el sentimiento sen‹  alan. The vision of an America de-Latinized of its own will, without threat of conquest, and reconstituted in the image and likeness of the North, now looms in the nightmares of many who are genuinely concerned about our future† We have our USA-mania. It must be limited by the boundaries our reason and sentiment jointly dictate.

    -Jose   Enrique Rodo 
      Ariel (translated1922), pt.5.

  • Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden, That apparition, sole of men, he saw.

    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
      Prometheus Unbound, act1, l.191^4.

  • For she was beautifulher beauty made The bright world dim, and everything beside Seemed like the fleeting image of a shade.

    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
      'TheWitch of Atlas', stanza12.

  • Tryas one may to stress the cultural and historical role of the place†it still conveys one overwhelmingly powerful image to your average Englishman: the dirty weekend.

    - Godfrey Smith
      Of Brighton.The English Companion.

  • For good ye are and bad, and like to coins, Some true, some light, but every one of you Stamped with the image of the King.

    -Tennyson
      Idylls of the King,'The Holy Grail', l.25^7.

  • Leaving the tumultuous throng, To cut across the reflex of a star; Image that, flying still before me, gleamed Upon the glassy plain.

    -William Wordsworth
      'Influence of Natural Objects', l.49^52 (published in The Friend 28 Dec1809).

  •    An open place it was, and overlooked, From high, the sullen water far beneath, On which a dull red image of the moon Lay bedded, changing oftentimes its form Like an uneasy snake.

    -William Wordsworth
    ^1805  The Prelude, bk.6, l.703^7 (published1850).

  • The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves, The brilliant moon and all the milky sky, And all that famous harmony of leaves, Has blotted out man's image and his cry.

    -W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
      'The Sorrow of Love', stanza1. Collected inThe Rose (1893).

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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