Quotes About Literal

Your left brain loves and desires order. It is logical, literal, linguistic (it likes words), and linear (it puts things in a sequence or order). The left brain loves that all four of these words begin with the letter L. (It also loves lists.)

Denial of our emotions isn't the only danger we face when we rely too heavily on our left brain. We can also become too literal, leaving us without a sense of perspective, where we miss the meaning that comes from putting things in context (a specialty of the right brain). This is part of what causes your eight-year-old to become defensive and angry sometimes when you innocently joke around with her. Remember that the right brain is in charge of reading nonverbal cues.

Denial of our emotions isn't the only danger we face when we rely too heavily on our left brain. We can also become too literal, leaving us without a sense of perspective, where we miss the meaning that comes from putting things in context (a specialty of the right brain).

My hope is to be a trusted utensil for viewers. Like, literally, 'That thing works. I can rely on that thing.'

There are two views of interpreting the Bible in America: that every word is literally the truth without qualification, and then the other view is, it's called plenary inspiration, which holds that all religious truth taught in the Bible is true from God, but each word is not necessarily interpreted literally.

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.

Film in many ways is very literal.

I find something very appealing about taking literature very literally.

She means everything literally. Don't kid yourself about that lady. She means everything literally.

Pero todavía no he visto que haya algún pasaje en las Escrituras que enseñe que puede lograrse una perfección literal, una liberación completa y absoluta del pecado, ni en los pensamientos, ni palabras ni hechos, ni tampoco que ningún hijo de Adán lo haya logrado en este mundo.

Doesn't matter, does it?" said George. "They're just as dead. Their blood is on your hands." "They don't have blood." "Humans are only literal when they're ashamed of something.

I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay.

Scripture to its literal, grammatical, historical sense.

In the last ten years of the second century and in the third century, the heretical school of theology at Alexandria, Egypt, advanced the erroneous principle that the Bible should be interpreted in a nonliteral or allegorical sense.

Strangely, Augustine held to a literal second coming, a literal heaven and a literal hell, but not to a literal millennium. This arbitrary distinction has never been explained.

Never take another human being literally. He added. Even when they are so ignorant that they don't know what 'literally' means.

Identity negates possibility, denies openness to other life. Identity kills, both metaphorically and very, very literally.

The scheme is too breathtaking for the literal, liberal minx mind mired in a claustrophobic clutch of clichés.

I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith.

But while the color may sap appetite in the most literal sense, it feeds it in others.

To resist metaphor is very difficult because you have to actually endure the thing itself.

I never did very well in mathI could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

The book of Revelation is filled with symbols, yet these symbols refer to things that are literal. They have literal referents (see, for example, the explanation that appears in Revelation 1:20).

whatever is not thus explained is to be taken as literal.