Image Quotes

Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?

~ Jodi Picoult

(from a prayer for inclusiveness):O god whose face changes as we move and learn and change, whose image becomes less like ours and more like that of the stranger we treat as a friend; the god whom we create from the sum of all we know that is wonderful, generous, true and wise: May we see ourselves in the god-ness of others and ourselves in their image of you.

~ Bronwyn Angela White

This is not only a full moon for me. This is an image of your face for me.

~ Gaurav Grv Sharma

I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.

~ Anthony Liccione

Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see.

~ Douglas Pagels

Expensive clothing is a poor man’s attempt to appear prosperous.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.

~ Christine Feehan

Danny could see it in their faces when they shook Steve’s hand—they’d have preferred him dead. Death allowed for the illusion of heroism. The maimed turned that illusion into an uncomfortable odor.

~ Dennis Lehane

We’re all God don’t you see?We’re holy; we are good, We were created on his own image,We kill, rape and slaughter our birds,We’re all God can’t you see?We came to be from good and kind,We slave others of our kind,We mistreat our woman and rape our children,We’re all God can’t you see?We feed our animals, and then chop then into pieces,We are all God and as God we kill and destroy as we please,We are Good and kind, and we feed the poorWe rape Mother Nature, and desecrate the oceanWe slaughter one another in the name of Justice,We condemn and judge, and we become a ruthless, and cruel,We’re all God can’t you see?We came from good and kind.

~ Quetzal

RACE INTERFACEIf God created man in his own image - What's his facial profile?Kamil Ali

~ Kamil Ali

We cannot help the way in which people speak of us . . .

~ George Eliot

The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.

~ Pankaj Mishra

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

~ Maxwell Maltz

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

~ David Tang

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In every parting there is an image of death.

~ George Eliot

Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals.

~ Bernard Hinault

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

~ Francis Bacon

Men create the gods in their own image.

~ Xenophanes

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

~ Paulo Freire

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

~ Karl Marx