Quotes About Interpretation

All a person needs to do is observe what the market is telling him and evaluate it.

The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.

The words are vessels that are filled with experience that overflows the vessels. The words point to an experience; they are not the experience. The moment that I express what I experience exclusively in thought and words, the experience has gone: it has dried up, is dead, a mere thought. Hence being is indescribable in words and is communicable only by sharing my experience.

be aware of the fact that words, in and by themselves, have no reality, except in terms of the context in which they are used, in terms of the intentions and the character of the one who uses them.

As with all semantic difficulties, the answer can only be arbitrary.

Worte sind Gefäße, die wir mit Erlebnissen füllen, doch diese quellen über das Gefäß hinaus.

The question of who claimed defense rightly is usually decided by the victors, and sometimes only much later by more objective historians.

The understanding of the operation of unconscious elements has taught us to be sceptical towards words and not to take them at face value.

Be careful how you interpret the world: it really is like that.

Dieser Theaterkritiker konnte die selbstverständlichsten und unstreitigsten Dinge äußern, sobald er es war, der sie behauptete, wirkten sie unglaubwürdig und reizten zum Widerspruch.

A bitch. No prostitute. A bitch. If you were a Russian you would understand.

Her mouth speaks words I do not understand. Nor do I fully understand her eyes; they seem to say more than we anticipated when we came here.

One man's destroyer is another's nightingale.

How shabby the truth can become when one articulates it.

If I told you, you wouldn't know what I was talking about.

German people, he said, would follow Hitler with absolute loyalty "provided they are allowed to have a share in the making and carrying out of decisions, provided every word of criticism is not immediately interpreted as malicious, and provided that despairing patriots are not branded as traitors." The time had come, he proclaimed, "to silence doctrinaire fanatics.

Depending on one's point of view, Germany was experiencing a great revival or a savage darkening.

You'll see it lovely. I never will. But it will be lovely.

With that as my guiding question, I set out on what became a lengthy journey through the vast and tangled forest of Churchill scholarship, a realm of giant volumes, distorted facts, and bizarre conspiracy theories, to try to find my personal Churchill. As I've discovered with prior books, when you look at the past through a fresh lens, you invariably see the world differently and find new material and insights even along well-trodden paths.

In this time when writing long letters was everyday practice, men of normal sensibility saw these cards as the most crabbed of media, little better than telegrams

Ty:It sounds pretty when you say it, but I have no clue what the hell you're talking about. Imogen:It's Shakespeare, she said. Ty:Well, I was pretty sure it wasn't Kenny Chesney.

That sounded like an insult, but he wasn't sure. What's a dillweed? You. You're a dill weed. Well, that cleared things right up.

He did get a lot of pictures like that. Or ones where women were mostly naked, but looked surprised by the fact.

I don't want to see people as other people see them, I want to see them as I see them.