We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Big white whale is a metaphor for everything. You live for pretentious metaphors.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“When a metaphor gets big, it is called “tradition”; when it gets bigger, it is called “reality”;” — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“He thought the suit was changing his life. What it really wanted was his obedience.” — Valon G Copy Share Image
Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon. — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
Neotony is a metaphor for the quality of life - the gift - that keeps the fortunate of whatever age focused on… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
A system of metaphor (pointing to a higher power) that one takes inside oneself as the truth and through its rules one… — Mason Jennings Copy Share Image
(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live… — Donna Farhi Copy Share Image
You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“At present the universities are as uncongenial to teaching as the Mojave Desert to a clutch of Druid priests. If you want… — William Arrowsmith Copy Share Image
If we don't understand how metaphor works we will misunderstand most of what we read in the Bible. No matter how carefully… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to contain the… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I am convinced that pilgrimage is still a bona fide spirit-renewing ritual. But I also believe in pilgrimage as a powerful metaphor… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
“Traumatic events, by definition, overwhelm our ability to cope. When the mind becomes flooded with emotion, a circuit breaker is thrown that… — Susan Pease Banitt Copy Share Image
There are moments on songs like "Violet" where it's still shrouded in metaphor, but it's quite, I don't know, explicit. And then… — Marika Hackman Copy Share Image
“The wall rose high above us in the night, illimitable and fearsome. If we could just get across it, then we would… — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
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