Quotes About Interpretation

She was] sitting across from us, her legs pressed together to one side, like a slash mark. Pretty/professional.

Muy propio de Nick», y lo que quiera que fuese a continuación, lo que quiera que fuese «muy propio de mí», siempre era negativo.)

She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It's good or it's bad. I liked it or I didn't. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad.

Whenever I hear that phrase

I just want you to be happy, Amy. How many times did he say that and I took it to mean: I just want you to be happy, Amy, because that's less work for me.

In truth, I wanted her to read my mind so I didn't have to stoop to the womanly art of articulation.

I sometimes leave out details like that. It's more convenient for me. In truth, I wanted her to read my mind so I didn't have to stoop to the womanly art of articulation.

Yeah, right. Something Wicked This Way Comes,' Greta says. 'It's good.' She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It's good or it's bad. I liked it or I didn't. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad. Like a hot dog.

He has that look, like I am being unreasonable

I blamed the whole mess on Charles Dickens.

There is that difference between being kicked in the teeth and reading a description of being kicked in the teeth. Some call it existential.

Evil is relative, Annalist. You can't hang a sign on it. You can't touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.

If a man speaks in the heart of a forest and no woman is there to hear him, is he still wrong?

Just like that chicken coop, everything got four sides: his side, her side, an outside, and an inside. All of it is the truth.

She studied the fine lines and loops, commas and periods that had come between them, and they etched themselves into her mind.

Even though the Word was originally given in a concrete historical context, its uniqueness centers in the fact that, though historically given and conditioned, this Word is ever a living Word.

This leads us to note further, that in any case the reader of an English Bible is already involved in interpretation. For translation is in itself a (necessary) form of interpretation. Your Bible, whatever translation you use, which is your beginning point, is in fact the end result of much scholarly work. Translators are regularly called upon to make choices regarding meanings, and their choices are going to affect how you understand.

A theologian's epistemology controls his interpretation of the Bible. If his epistemology is not Christian, his exegesis will be systematically distorted. If he has no epistemology at all, his exegesis will be unsystematically distorted.

Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth! Only a Janus, groaned Hamilton.

Hypothesis: Intentional or not, movement to a beat = dancing.

Your jokes aren't even funny. What is this thing, anyway?' 'That's the beauty of it!' Oliver crows. 'It's nothing?just some piece of junk from he supply closet. But you're freaking out because it could be anything.' 'Which it isn't,' I remind him. 'Exactly! The nothing becomes something because of how you react to it!

them from both sides, it looked like escape. Dan

Both Jefferson and Madison remained convinced to the end of their lives that all parts of America's government had equal authority to interpret the fundamental law of the Constitution—all departments had what Madison called "a concurrent right to expound the constitution.

I say his version because there is no such thing as a true account of anything. Each sees the world from his own vantage point. Needless to say, a throne is not the best place from which to view anything except the backs of prostrate men.