Quotes About Interpretation

I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather...the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it-very loose, the line of the law-so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are always-short of the blantant theft or cold-blooded murder-safely on the right side.

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.

Frequently, our mistakes turn out to suggest meaning beyond the fact that we have made an error.

Most likely, she's witnessing not an escape, but a penetration.

All that was considered evil on this side of the glass might be judged good on the other side. Truth here might be lies there, and the future might precede the past.

There. I'd actually said it. I had told her she was beautiful, even though she might need a translator to have my meaning properly conveyed.

Nobody wanted to read sucky novels, and those people who wanted deep meaning didn't want it in every damn story

I admit that I don't understand art that isn't in the least representational. But I feel no need to understand it.

not as reliably able to interpret my dreams. Sometimes I wondered if I had everything backward, my life and purpose and meaning all backward. Maybe the best thing I had to offer was fry cookery of a high order, and maybe my paranormal abilities were nothing more than the equivalent of a talent for farting on command, better repressed than indulged. I, no less than anyone, was capable of self-delusion, of pride that led me to embrace a grander image of myself than was the truth.

She considers them to constitute a work of art.

Perhaps this wasn't precisely what had been said back in the day, but instead the essence of it translated through fallible memory.

My truth she'd said to him. What the hell is truth anyway Two separate questions yes. But not wholly unrelated. For truth no matter the modifier is always intrinsically modified.

Most people felt either drawn to Ian or rejected by him, depending on how they interpreted his demeanour. He is described by Mike Kelly, a childhood acquaintance who lived nearby, as a person one would cross the road to avoid, merely because his eyes said: 'Stay Away'.

I was always decoding. I was hyperalert. Being hyperalert is a lasting thing. Being a watcher. Noticing emotional shirts, infinitesimally small tremors that flit over another person's face, the jab in a seemingly innocuous word, the quickening in a walk, an abrupt gesture - the way, say, a jacket is tossed over a chair.

Before the use of asteroids, the only significators of the feminine in traditional chart interpretation were the Moon and Venus.

Meaning can't change from person to person, and still be true

The real meaning of stories depends on where they're told, when and to whom.

Mystery, I'd read somewhere, is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

because you symbolize his cockeyed

She couldn't tell if the sadness in his smile stemmed from pity for her or if he just possessed a sad smile.

The Hebrew original does not say, 'Do not kill.' It says, 'Do not murder.' Both Hebrew and English have two words for taking a life — one is 'kill' (harag, in Hebrew) and the other is 'murder' (ratzach in Hebrew).

The next time you hear someone cite, 'Do not kill' when quoting the sixth commandment, gently but firmly explain that it actually says, 'Do not murder.

The waters below are mayim (the Hebrew word for "water"), and waters above are sham-mayim—which some, but by no means all, scholars believe means "water there" (sham is Hebrew for "there").

Therefore, there is no issue here of a holy text depicting people being ordered by their God to kill infidels or innocents.