I do not seek perfection; I seek expression.

The greatest expression of love is not in words, but in actions.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‘Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.

All life likes power, and Beauty Smith was no exception. Denied the expression of power amongst his own kind, he fell back upon the lesser creatures and there vindicated the life that was in him. But Beauty Smith had not created himself, and no blame was to be attached to him. He had come into the world with a twisted body and a brute intelligence. This had constituted the clay of him, and it had not been kindly moulded by the world.

I thought the one of the ultimate expressions of ‘whoa’ was in the first Matrix…The ‘whoa’ was wonderful in TheMatrix.

The toil of the traces seemed the supreme expression of their being, and all that they lived for and the only thing in which they took delight.

This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.

There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression of some need, and man’s needs are ignoble and disgusting like his own poor and infirm nature. The most useful place in a house is the water-closet

In order to be truly creative, you have to be willing to take risks and step out of your comfort zone.

Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals

But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying no to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one’s own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun

Great ideas originate in the muscles

What you are will show in what you do.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.

Our own life has to be our message.

In such situations, of course, people don’t nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that’s the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer’s delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn’t be moaning.

Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality of its presence.

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

The expression similia similes is a Latin phrase and means that an imaginary disease can best be cured by an imaginary remedy.

Give expression to the noble desires that lie in your heart.

I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.

Beauty without expression is boring.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Energy is the measure of that which passes from one atom to another in the course of their transformations. A unifying power, then, but also, because the atom appears to become enriched or exhausted in the course of the exchange, the expression of structure.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing

The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.

To the extent that a man is untrue to the law of his being, he has failed to realize his own life’s meaning

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

Anger should be expressed. Any anger that is not coming out, flowing freely, will turn into sadism, power drive, stammering, and other means of torturing

During the year 1894, Pierre Curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. No one of them was very long, for he had the habit of concise expression, but all were written in a spirit of sincerity and with evident anxiety to make the one he desired as a companion know him as he was.

Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression.

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town.

We’re all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

The person who gives expression, by word of mouth, to negative or destructive thoughts is practically certain to experience the results of those words in the form of destructive “kick-back”.