Quotes About Interpretation

I was both fed up with explaining and desperately craving an explanation.

Clearly, God is a Democrat.

Twisting Scripture? Theologians have long pointed out that you can prove anything from the Bible. The atheist looks at scripture and sees errors compounded on more errors; the cultist looks on scripture and sees bizarre interpretations; the Christian looks upon scripture and sees the wondrous God that is described therein. Truth, like her sister Beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. But Truth, Reality insists, is an absolute, and they that ignore it do so at the peril of their souls.

Lo que pasa con la sombra es que, a pesar de que se extrae de la percepción consciente, todavía existe. De hecho, puede darse a conocer de maneras más sutiles, manifestándose en comportamientos, pensamientos y sentimientos, o apareciendo en sueños o momentos de descuido. Si somos capaces de observar y comprender estos signos externos en los demás, podemos obtener una visión profunda de su carácter.

Emotional intelligence is when you understand what someone is trying to convey through their words or body language, and you understand what you yourself are conveying to others through the same.

Everything is a version of something else

A million years ago - some hairy bastard daubed a horse on the wall of his cave, he saw it, he drew it - well done! Flash forward: 'Hello, welcome to my vlog. Today I bought a plum

Poetry was something everyone could agree on because no one could be certain of what it was about.

Even a Marxist can misquote Scripture for his purpose.

De tous les caractères d'imprimerie, il m'avait dit qu'il préférait les points de suspensions.

Je me rends compte aujourd'hui qu'il m'a fallu écrire deux cents pages pour capter, inconsciemment, un vague reflet de la réalité.

If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them.

What kind of person am I when seen by you?

Prophecy is slippery, dangerous, open to fatal misinterpretation.

Early Christians thought your soul was in your stomach," I say.

She was reading a book on his pad, he saw, her strange attraction to the written words of his people still unabated, still amazed at how anyone could pack so much of themselves into lines on a page. It was a reduction, as she saw it, when expansion seemed so much more natural. And yet here she was again, spending time decoding a language not her own.

The words you say tell me you are scared of the berries, but your actions seem to suggest otherwise.

People ask for what they need in different ways. Sometimes by not even asking for it at all

People see stories everywhere," Regine says. "That's what my father used to say. We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true." She glances back at Seth. "We

Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?

Copyright (C) 2012 by Rachel Swirsky

No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.

Another language, sir? But I dare say it is much the same thing - a putain, as they say in France?

I]ndividual readers may conceivably choose (or be led) to regard a given text as literary in cases where such a response is not shared by others, but until their individual responses lose their idiosyncratic nature by being adopted by a larger interpretive community, such responses will be regarded as being to a greater or lesser degree aberrant, and the offender will be regarded as lacking in good taste or good sense or both.