Represent

Famous quotes containing the word represent:

“All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“I rejoice that there are owls.... They represent the stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)