Interpreted Quotes

178 quotes by 164 authors

In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can… — C. Lloyd Morgan
Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits… — Paul Hellyer
Remember, the political idea being expressed a year ago was that because the GOP interpreted its 1994 mandate as a call to budget-balancing austerity, the… — Jude Wanniski
Often God will send us what we need in a package we don't want. Why? To let us know He's God and we cannot second-guess… — John Bevere
The word â€œphotographyâ€ can be interpreted as â€œwriting with lightâ€ or â€œdrawing with light.â€ Some photographers are producing beautiful photographs by drawing with light.. Some… — Philippe Halsman
Secularism is a term interpreted in many different ways by different people. For me, it has always been something very simple - putting India First — Narendra Modi
When Allah granted Prophet Yoosuf (`alayhis-Salaam) physical beauty it caused him to be locked up in the prison; but when Allah granted him knowledge (when… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Here is a most significant fact-the subconscious mind takes any orders given it in a spirit of absolute FAITH, and acts upon those orders, although… — Napoleon Hill
[On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted. — Chuck Klosterman
Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted. — William Jennings Bryan
These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Itâ€™s better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or youâ€™ll be too afraid to let things… — David Lynch
We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is… — Hildegard of Bingen
Because for me, '60s pop music is amongst the most complicated or complex music because it has so many resonances which strike you. The music… — Tim Gane
In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not… — Ferdinand de Saussure
It is the right to bear arms which is the problem. I think if the Founding Fathers knew what was happening they would be turning… — Liam Neeson
It [the Constitution] didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been… — Barack Obama
In many Muslim countries, witchcraft is not only on the books as a crime, but is commonly prosecuted. In 2009, for example, Saudi Arabia convicted… — Steven Pinker
The lawyers' contribution to the civilizing of humanity is evidenced in the capacity of lawyers to argue furiously in the courtroom, then sit down as… — John Silber
History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products of the soil.… — Hugh Hammond Bennett

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