Literal Quotes
201 quotes by 179 authors
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When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical…
— J. J. Abrams
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Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.
— Elizabeth Banks
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I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to…
— Matthew Barney
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Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
— Theodor Adorno
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I believe the Scriptures teach that there's a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of sins that, yeah,…
— Kirk Cameron
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In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of…
— Noam Chomsky
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The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you…
— Deepak Chopra
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical era…
— George Steiner
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...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government…
— Harry Browne
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In matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne favorise que les…
— Louis Pasteur
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Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly." But the word "silly" comes from the old English word "selig," and…
— Zig Ziglar
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The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, ("to think") and tra ("tool'). So the literal translation is "a tool of thought." And that's…
— Russell Simmons
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With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them…
— James Madison
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If there was not one man Adam and one woman Eve, and a literal event of the one man Adam taking the fruit in rebellion…
— Ken Ham
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The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.
— John Shelby Spong
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And Christ was born into the world as the literal Son of this Holy Being; he was born in the same personal, real, and literal…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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As far as this life is concerned, [Jesus] was born of Mary and of Elohim; he came here as an offspring of that Holy Man…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims that Jesus Christ is the Son of God in the most literal sense. The body in…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth.
— Rosalind E. Krauss
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