The Hebrew scriptures say it's okay to enslave anybody except your fellow Jews. It says you should enslave only your neighbors. I… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I started doing sculpture in 1959. I had no commissions then. They were painted, similar in style to the paintings... At a… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims that Jesus Christ is the Son of God in the most literal sense.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
There is a push and a pull almost like an isometric stretch. Our literal flexibility and our physical, psychological and spiritual practices… — Brenda Strong Copy Share Image
I have yet to find a faithful tithe payer who cannot testify that in a very literal and wonderful way the windows… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
I was also thinking about isolation on an evolutionary scale as well, like when you think of an island like Madagascar where… — Colin Stetson Copy Share Image
There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Breath does, in fact, connect us all in a very literal way. Take a breath now. And as you breathe, think about… — Jane Poynter Copy Share Image
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past… Each… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Can you tell me what it means to waive your rights?" I hold my breath as Jacob hesitates. And then slowly, beautifully,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
I don't have a philosophy. If I had a philosophy, it's that I'm kind of literal minded. For example, I would never… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
There are sincere believers who interpret Genesis 1 and 2 in a very literal way that is inconsistent, frankly, with our knowledge… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to… — E. L. James Copy Share Image
There was a period of time during the 'Jagged Little Pill' era where I don't think I laughed for about two years.… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
The literal resurrection of every soul who has lived and died on earth is a certainty, and surely one should make careful… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I took my fear to literal heights and went skydiving over a year ago. It was in that moment, gazing over the… — Kathryn Budig Copy Share Image
I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
“What is truth?” I said. “Is it the shallow assurance that something literally took place, or is it about something far deeper,… — Michael Lister Copy Share Image
Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
This is a city of absolute enchantment in the literal sense of the word. It loosens all the bonds binding the traveller… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
Sometimes with certain writing, you feel like you've got to be literal, hit it hard on the nose, just to get the… — Chace Crawford Copy Share Image
I felt it's vague enough for the reader to pull their own story and their wisdom out of the poem, but for… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
When politicians began to see that every last thing that they did in public could be broadcast to a mass audience, the… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
Sometimes the autobiographical link in each story is very literal, like I did work at The Texas School for the Blind, and… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
Cars are good for entrances and exits. And there is something about driving that is quite cliched in a funny way. I… — Richard Ayoade Copy Share Image
A book consists of two layers: on top, the readable layer ... and underneath, a layer that was inaccessible. You only sense… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Being in church so often, spending those hours sitting in front of a highly symbolic array of objects, hearing those beautiful texts… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
A lot of the lyrics I write involve images that just swing the song in a way that feels really good to… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW,… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
