Quotes About Interpretation

he rumpled it up in the droll way he used to do, and Jo liked it rampantly erect better than flat, because

She had a talent for looking at a person with no expression - you filled in whatever you felt guiltiest about.

Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.

In retrospect, it seems clear that the ambiguous signals from the White House reflected more than duplicity on Roosevelt's part

And both sides would prove right.

If Senior tried to shut out his critics, Junior was hypersensitive to insinuations about his father.

He completely misread Rockefeller's psychology.

Mr. Rossini had about twelve different kinds of sublime and about 150 kinds of ridiculous.

The futurist approach to interpreting the book of Revelation holds that most of the events described in the book will take place in the end times, just prior to the second coming of Jesus Christ.

art is a mode of stalking

The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.

He asks wether Christians eat gold. Ari, nispa. Qoritam mikhunku. Yes, they are saying. They do eat gold.

Son mañosas las palabras, y rebeldes, y huidizas. No les gusta ser domesticadas. Domar una palabra (convertirla en un tópico) es acabar con ella.

Cuando nos gusta un libro, siempre nos parece que sus páginas nos hablan directamente al corazón, que sus palabras son nuestras. Y en alguna medida es cierto que es así, porque al leer completamos la obra, la interpretamos, la enriquecemos con nuestra necesidad y nuestra pasión.

Dicen que sólo necesitamos siete segundos para hacernos un primer bosquejo de la persona, y un minuto y medio para comunicarnos. Y una mierda. Ese es el tiempo que necesitamos para empezar a inventarnos al otro, en todo caso.

Las palabras son como peces abisales que sólo te enseñan un destello de escamas entre las aguas negras. Si se desenganchan del anzuelo, lo más probable es que no puedas volverlas a pescar. Son mañosas las palabras, y rebeldes, y huidizas. No les gusta ser domesticadas.

I, for one, don't think anything about it at all," responded Hiram, bluntly. "He's either a dreamer or a skeesicks. His not coming back to us looks as if he had served his purpose in getting

It therefore provides a hermeneutical reference point for interpreting all his sayings, including the other Gospel statements from him about divorce and remarriage.

Behind each of those laws is the eternal purpose of God to act redemptively on behalf of his sinful human creatures. And we must be careful in every generation to guard against interpreting those laws in ways that cancel the intention behind them.

It is this fulfillment motif that is so critical to interpreting not only the Sermon on the Mount but the larger role of Jesus in the drama of Holy Scripture.

We never see the world as it really is but only how we see it. And because we're trapped in our own interpretation, we are prepared to go to war with other people caught in their view of reality – and never the twain shall meet.

Les métaphysiciens sont des musiciens sans dons musicaux.

It isn't what you say so much. It's what you mean when you say it.

It's clever, but is it art?