Portray Quotes
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Furthermore, all the Western politicians, intellectuals and journalists are obliged to pay homage and bow to the monument that commemorates those allegedly killed in the Nazi concentration camps. In other words, all should acknowledge the veracity of something that has not been proven! This is also one of the propaganda means being applied by the Zionists to portray themselves as the victims of persecution!
ali khamenei— January 31, 2002 statements to the Islamic World Media conference held in Tehran
Dickens was not the first or the last novelist to find virtue more difficult to portray than the wish for it.
— 1953 'OliverTwist', collected in Books in General (1981).
For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.
andy murray— Daily Mirror feature on Murray
I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
lily tomlin— As quoted in Variety magazine (2003)
Those who present directly and immediately the new forms and symbols are the artists the dramatists, the musicians, the painters, the dancers, the poets, and those poets of the religious sphere we call saints. They portray the new symbols in the form of images poetic, aural, plastic, or dramatic, as the case may be. They live out their imaginations.
rollo may— Ch. 1 : The Courage to Create, p. 22
“At the 1992 Republican National Convention, Pat Buchanan called Democrats political cross-dressers for attempting portray themselves… as something they weren’t… Until recently, I had assumed he meant this as a criticism.”
david a. ridenour— David A. Ridenour, "Say it Ain't So, Pat," Tampa Tribune, November 21, 1995Referring to Pat Buchanan's characterization of a 40% increase in Medicare spending over seven years as a "cut."
I have never said that the terrorists' interpretation of Islam is the accurate or correct one. But I have pointed out that the terrorists portray themselves quite successfully among Muslims as the exponents of true and pure Islam, and moderates have mounted no successful response as yet.
robert spencer— Honesty is the best policy, Bob, July 19, 2007: About moderation in Islam
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
leo tolstoy— Sevastopol in May (1855), Ch. 16
In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to portray his psychological activities one must be able to reproduce them in oneself. To understand a man one must have his nature in oneself.
otto weininger— p. 105 (Sex and Character (1903))
Because any arrangement of squares, circles, and connecting lines has limitations in what it may portray, the organization chart is best regarded as an illustration accompanying a description of the departments, boards, bureaus...
— Bureau of Municipal Research (Philadelphia, Pa.) (1932) Philadelphia's government, 1932, an organization chart and description. p. 1
