Allegorical Sense Quotes & Sayings

The ability to ask the right kind of question at the right time is the hallmark of a truly efficient and successful learner. — Angela Maiers

John Henry Holliday didn't have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own. My fondest hope for Doc is that it will win for him the compassion and respect I think he deserves. — Mary Doria Russell

The fact was that I had always been considered a leader in my scholastic career. It just never dawned on me that this was any kind of preparation for the business world. Like most young women of my background and education, I always performed on demand and never anything else. — Geraldine Stutz

I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory
a vain and misconceived effort because the very fact of giving an allegorical sense to a presentation clearly shows that we have to do with a fable which by itself has no truth either fantastic or direct; it was made for the demonstration of some moral truth. — Luigi Pirandello

There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it. — Richard Dreyfuss

I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove. — Gloria Steinem

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste. — Arnold Bennett

The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government. — Todd Akin

In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those Scriptures, in the divine authority of which he firmly believed, Philo borrowed from the Stoics (who had been in like straits in respect of Greek mythology), that great Excalibur which they had forged with infinite pains and skill - the method of allegorical interpretation. This mighty 'two-handed engine at the door' of the theologian is warranted to make a speedy end of any and every moral or intellectual difficulty, by showing that, taken allegorically or, as it is otherwise said, 'poetically' or, 'in a spiritual sense,' the plainest words mean whatever a pious interpreter desires they should mean. — Thomas Henry Huxley

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches. — William Robertson Smith

We are all the spirit sons and daughters of a loving God who is our Father. We are part of His family. He is not a father in some allegorical or poetic sense. He is literally the Father of our spirits. He cares for each one of us. Though this world has a way of diminishing and demeaning men and women, the reality is we are all of royal, divine lineage. In that unprecedented appearance of the Father and the Son in the Sacred Grove, the very first word spoken by the Father of us all was the personal name of Joseph. Such is our Father's personal relationship with each of us. He knows our names and yearns for us to become worthy to return to live with Him. — M. Russell Ballard

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular. — Desmond Tutu

Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of the world. — Louise Rosenblatt

I let it. I let my heart break. — Jandy Nelson

I want to be living out of a suitcase in a different city every day. — Josh Logan