Top 367 Interpreted Quotes & Sayings

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it

It's a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love.

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 interpreted, and the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can't do to you, it says what the federal government can't do to you, but it doesn't say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. And that hasn't shifted.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians.

The critical question is how a religious tradition is interpreted. Is it interpreted in ways that are pro-human rights or in ways that are a throwback to the Dark Ages?

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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 not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.

Whether I'm in the Hall of Fame or not, I can say whatever I like; it just depends on how it's interpreted!

And it never, ever was interpreted that the Second Amendment meant individual's right to bear arms

Everybody in this public arena makes statements and gets interpreted different ways.

In Mexico the gods ruled, the priests interpreted and interposed, and the people obeyed.In Spain, the priests ruled, the king interpreted and interposed, and the gods obeyed. A nuance in an ideological difference is a wide chasm.

Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.

These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.

There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense.

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.

We need to put people on the bench that understand the Constitution is not a living and breathing document. It is to be interpreted as originally meant.

Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste.

Putin is a totally inscrutable guy. He gives nothing away. People interpreted what they wanted to see in him.

The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging around in 18th Century dictionaries to figure out what 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant or what the 'right to bear arms' meant, but that is all fake really. The Constitution has to be interpreted in light of modern needs, and that's what they (the strict interpreters) end up doing in spite of all their investigations.

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.

[The Bible] has to be interpreted. And if it isn’t interpreted, then it can’t be put into action. So if we are serious about following God, then we have to interpret the Bible. It is not possible to simply do what the Bible says. We must first make decisions about what it means at this time, in this place, for these people.

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a glorious liberty document. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? It is neither.

Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.

Nature must be interpreted as matter, energy, and information

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

As such the meaning of hegemony is subject to varying interpretations depending on how the historical role of the United States is interpreted.

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.

I think we have to recover our spiritual nature. The way we have interpreted Christianity does not do that.

Women who say it's not O.K. are [interpreted as] wet blankets or sore losers.

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.

The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.

The myriad of ways that a song can be interpreted is astounding to me, and it's part of the allure of writing.

My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.

Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it.

Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

The ECB's interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a 'freebie' for governments. They are temporary.

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively

Everything we say has metamessages indicating how our words are to be interpreted: Is this a serious statement or a joke? Does it show annoyance or goodwill? Most of the time, metamessages are communicated and interpreted without notice because, as far as anyone can tell, the speaker and the hearer agree on their meaning.

I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.

Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.

It's very hard to imagine the phrase "consumer society" used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.

What I like doing is imagery that can be interpreted in any particular way by the person who wears it.

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.

An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.

I am proud of my Italian heritage, and nothing I have said should be interpreted as an attempt at minimizing its value.

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!

Our coherent extrapolated volition is our wish if we knew more, thought faster, were more the people we wished we were, had grown up farther together; where the extrapolation converges rather than diverges, where our wishes cohere rather than interfere; extrapolated as we wish that extrapolated, interpreted as we wish that interpreted.

The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.