Interpreted Quotes

178 quotes by 164 authors

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human… — Muhammad Yunus
Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be… — Muhammad Yunus
The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I am not saying… — Muhammad Yunus
Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful… — Henry B. Eyring
I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of… — Greg Graffin
â€¦a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or… — Charles Dickens
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it. — Karl Marx
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. — Joseph Campbell
The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains,… — Rebecca Solnit
Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way. — Edward Gorey
[The Bible] has to be interpreted. And if it isnâ€™t interpreted, then it canâ€™t be put into action. So if we are serious about following… — Rob Bell
Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity. — Wendell Berry
In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow… — William P. Young
(From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he had not thought… — Peter Carey
Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably differ… — Howard Gardner
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a… — Henry David Thoreau
We walked at night towards a cafe blooming with Japanese lanterns and I followed your white shoes gleaming like radium in the damp darkness. Rising… — Zelda Fitzgerald
[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots — Joseph J. Ellis
I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact… — Milan Kundera

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