Interpreted Quotes

178 quotes by 164 authors

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative… — Rowan Atkinson
A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can… — Henri Bergson
Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty)… — Ambrose Bierce
It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England. — Julie Burchill
Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to… — Joseph Campbell
Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part of what I… — Aberjhani
I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the… — John Dewey
God's eternal decree certainly rendered the entrance of sin into the world certain, but this may not be interpreted so as to make God the… — Louis Berkhof
In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for… — Saint Augustine
The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in the… — Malcolm X
Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd. — Bertrand Russell
Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction. — Thomas Carlyle
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document! — Frederick Douglass
The dignity of the human person is a transcendent value, always recognized as such by those who sincerely search for the truth. Indeed, the whole… — Pope John Paul II
The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity. — John Shelby Spong
The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed… — David H. Hubel
In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve preservation and recognition,… — Earnest Hooton
The big idea we start with is: "How is the genome interpreted, and how are stable decisions that affect gene expression inherited from one cell… — Shirley M. Tilghman
It falls apart now. They used to be intrinsically linked. Now they've been driven so far apart that I don't think the one has anything… — Louise Wilson

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