Literal Sense Quotes

29 Literal Sense quotes by 26 unique authors

• Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. — Theodor Adorno
• 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
• 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
• 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
• We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing — John Searle
• I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is said to set… — Tayari Jones
• One should not interpret the word “Revolution” in its literal sense. Various meanings and significances are attributed to this word, according to the interests of… — Bhagat Singh
• It's ignorant! The stereotype is guys that are weak and have failing relationships write about how sad they are. If you listen to our songs,… — Brendon Urie
• "I do not believe that Jesus, at the end of his earthly sojourn, returned to God by ascending in any literal sense into a heaven… — John Shelby Spong
• 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
• Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there… — Jonathan Haidt
• The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real; in a literal sense, more dead than alive; precariously differentiated from… — R. D. Laing
• I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us. — Anselm Kiefer
• I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in… — Elvis Costello
• We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that… — Gordon B. Hinckley
• The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only… — Karl Marx
• Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems… — Toni Morrison
• Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos… — Nate Silver
• I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense. — Edward Gorey
• Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life,… — Cassandra Clare

Who Wrote These Literal Sense Quotes

26 authors contributed a total of 29 Literal Sense Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Literal Sense Quotes by Prince Charles
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by Toni Morrison
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by Theodor Adorno
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by Tayari Jones
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by R. D. Laing
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by Noam Chomsky
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by Nate Silver
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by Karl Marx
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by Jonathan Haidt
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by John Shelby Spong
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by John Searle
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by Jacques Barzun
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by J I Packer
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by Gordon B. Hinckley
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by Ezra Taft Benson
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by Elvis Costello
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by Edward Gorey
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by Charlton Heston
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by Cassandra Clare
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by Bruce R. McConkie
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by Brendon Urie
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by Bhagat Singh
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
• 1 Literal Sense Quote by Anselm Kiefer