Quotes About Interpretation

Merkabah is translated as either meaning the throne of god or chariot. Both definitions imply a means of spiritual ascension, not a physical one. They only have it partly right.

I accept with sincere belief the doctrine of faith as handed down to us from the Apostles by the orthodox Fathers, always in the same sense and with the same interpretation.

No person shall preach without the permission of his Superior. All preachers shall explain the Gospel according to the Fathers. They shall not explain futurity or the times of Antichrist!

A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

Some people fear seeing or feeling anything about which there is no general agreement. For others, it is thrilling to be aware of innuendo, shading, complexity.

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

All things are subjective, a person's circumstances has nothing to do with current or past events, but rather their perception of those events, and the attitude and manner in which they choose to approach it.

There are two sides to every story.

And the thing is... life can be interpreted many ways. The way you carry yourself determines how it reflects in the eyes of others.

Always try to be more sensitive about people's feelings. Because there are times that a tear means happiness and a smile means hurt.

It is one's perception of a situation that determines if it's mountain or a molehill.

We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.