The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If you ever make anything too literal you might as well forget it. It loses everything. — Gillian Wearing Copy Share Image
Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Drama is not a literal portrayal of events. It's a depiction, it's impressionistic. — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
It would be catastrophic if one day these fundamentalists Christians gain enough political power to enforce their literal understanding of Mosaic Law. — Mel White Copy Share Image
Music was all over my house, and all over literally my genetic house, and my house in the literal sense. So I… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
God truly is our Father, the Father of the spirits of all mankind. We are his literal offspring and are formed in… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
One writes what one lives, even if not in a literal way. Someone who has gone through an unhappy love tends to… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don't pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters. — Jennifer Harrison Copy Share Image
The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
I don't read the Bible as the literal word of God; I don't view Jesus as a God. I've rejected both those… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
Glamour is a beautiful illusion - the word 'glamour' originally meant a literal magic spell - that promises to transcend ordinary life… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I first heard "Heaven Without a Gun" when Kevin [Drew] sent it to me, and there was this kind of beauty about… — Andy Kim Copy Share Image
The Family in particular, but also other really **** conservatives come to call what is "Biblical Capitalism." The idea that capitalism is… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
I believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. And I say no, it's not, Dad. Well, I believe that… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
I think that's there are a couple of reasons for that. One is as you're introducing the fourth and fifth versions of… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
'Fantasy' is one of the fewer tracks where it's more literal than most of our things, but at the same time it's… — Lizzy Plapinger Copy Share Image
I was particularly drawn to Berlin because of its literal, concrete division. Two halves making a whole, or two entities that were… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
I do think you can see, throughout American history, this temptation, and it's both a liberal and a conservative temptation, to take… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
This - where we are now - is where a culture gets to, when it has chosen, for many years, banality over… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2)… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
![“I first heard "Heaven Without a Gun" when Kevin [Drew] sent it to me, and there was this kind of beauty about it. I don't live that much in the literal world, so you kind of have to see beyond the veil of what you're being shown sometimes. To me, that's such a beautiful, wonderful sentiment.” quote by Andy Kim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/277/andy-kim-4097_beautiful_i-first-heard-heaven-without-a-gun-when_512702.jpg)
