Best Literal Quotes
201 Literal quotes by 175 unique authors
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Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens and vanishes, as…
— J F C Fuller
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A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.
— Garry Winogrand
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Don't swear in the Literal Heart of Jesus.
— John Green
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God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences, and Grace does not merely…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs…
— Prince Charles
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All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
— Benjamin Jowett
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To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.
— Richard Mabey
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My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that…
— John Dominic Crossan
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The words 'California's Gold' will no longer mean anything about me or about a television series. They will mean what California's Gold has always truly…
— Huell Howser
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Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the law as separate…
— Charlton Heston
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As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You…
— Roz Chast
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Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a work of art…
— Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Among the Mormons, things temporal have always been important along with things eternal, for salvation in this world and the next is seen as one…
— Unknown Author
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Cars are good for entrances and exits. And there is something about driving that is quite cliched in a funny way. I like Roy Orbison's…
— Richard Ayoade
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It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the…
— Uta Hagen
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Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.
— Poul Anderson
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A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But…
— Paul Bloom
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How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be…
— Julie Taymor
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It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and…
— Galileo Galilei
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I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity;…
— Charles Darwin
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I think that hell essentially is separation from God forever. And that is the worst hell that I can think of. But I think people…
— Billy Graham
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It has been said that in the New Testament doctrine is grace; and ethics is gratitude; and something is wrong with any form of Christianity…
— J I Packer
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