Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
The British often shy away from any cinematic interpretation of real sex. They sometimes have what I call "subtle sex," which is… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
When the United Nations was born it was believed to be a positive instrument for peace. From this exalted position it became… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
“A translator, caught in the space between two tongues. Such people tend to come a little bit unglued from the task of… — Elena Mauli Shapiro Copy Share Image
Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Even more subtle and more invidious is the fact that any time you put a… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
Great works - and I think Star Wars is a great work - are easily susceptible to multiple plausible interpretations. Some of… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Rather than being a 'perversion' of Islam, it is truer to say that the version of Islam espoused by ISIS, while undoubtedly… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
I guess my choice of medium depends on how I want to interpret the idea. Sometimes the interpretation works best in a… — Wardell Milan Copy Share Image
The Blue Degrees are but the outer court...of the temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the initiate, but he… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
I can't say that you should extract this or that value from my books explicitly. They are up for interpretation. In terms… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Becaise I love God, I want to handle his truth with accuracy, clarity, and specificity. I want to build bridges of understanding… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
What is and isn't justified by military necessity is, naturally, open to interpretation. One of the key concepts, though, is the law… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
I love my wife... but sometimes not so much. Frustration and fights can muck up a good thing. And just when a… — Richard Schiff Copy Share Image
We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Often the Jesus-focused churches are leaning towards a 'social gospel' interpretation of the kingdom, and the 'Paul' churches are talking about being… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
An incipient Mother Man has always inhabited my deeper self; creativity has always been my companion ... I have tried to express… — Augusto De Luca Copy Share Image
For a man solemnly to undertake the interpretation of any portion of Scripture without invocation of God, to be taught and instructed… — John Owen Copy Share Image
When I write and produce something, I know exactly how I want it to sound, and I have a very strong interpretation… — George Michael Copy Share Image
... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Most of this film, however, is about interpretation - are these people terrorists or freedom fighters? Are they good or bad? Is… — Marshall Curry Copy Share Image
Our interpretations through the years and generations have always changed, but the emotions, ideas, and the thoughts of the composers are still… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor.' 'If… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Matthew is the only gospel that uses the Sermon on the Mount, for example, because that's the new Moses making a new… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“It is not acceptable that election winners interpret history. History should be left to historians who have a difficult task. They should… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“Neither Peter in his work to include Gentiles in the church nor the abolitionists in their campaign against slavery argued that their… — Matthew Vines Copy Share Image
From my personal experience I can conclude that many dreams are clearly written but there are some in which one meets distortions… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
To reduce the interpretation of the causality of all kinds of climate changes and of global warming to one variable, CO2, or… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
The [Frank] Sinatra interpretation of the music, as opposed to some other music that you were listening to - where you felt… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
It is very important to be aware that you may never be satistied with your analytic career if you feel that you… — Wilfred Bion Copy Share Image
For me, it is about using everything that is there and using the gaps in the record, figuring out why the gaps… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers… — Natalie Zemon Davis Copy Share Image
Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life, people do it differently in different… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image