Allegorizing Quotes & Sayings

I could not write without my dog, Rhoda, a Lab-chow mix. — Mary Gordon

In 1980 candidate Reagan asked whether we were better off than we had been 4 years earlier. In 1992 we will be asked whether we expect our children to live better than we do. — Frank Levy

MAIA. - all the glory of the world? Yes, you did. And all that glory should be mine, you said. — Henrik Ibsen

That Jem makes beautiful things and I destroy them. That it really ought to be me dying and not him. I mean, what's the point of living if you can't even enjoy it? Yet Jem enjoys all the life he's got. It's not fair. — Cassandra Clare

But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and imaginative form in which they are sometimes couched, would be no less a violation of the canons of evangelical literalism than the allegorizing of the Scholastics was. — J.I. Packer

Teta was wary, but anxious to leave city life behind. He was born in a shack on a farm and raised more by the animals and elements than his parents. His stint in New York was against his nature. But no matter how many times I told him to skedaddle, he stayed by my side like a tick or a bedbug. Blood brothers, he called us. I was never sure if he meant it in the traditional sense or if he was referring to the prodigious amount of blood we'd shed together. — Hunter Shea

Uh-huh and since when did Decebel's man boobs begin producing milk? Jacque asked dryly. — Quinn Loftis

We get strength and encouragement from watching children. — Hayao Miyazaki

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

That the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones. — Jennifer Lee Carrell

As we saw in chapter 3, one way the early modern Europeans used Odyssean self-control was to keep sharp knives out of reach at the dinner table. — Steven Pinker

The Alexandrian School In opposition to the previously named Church Fathers, the Alexandrians openly embraced Greek philosophy, thought of it as being of divine origin, and brought its allegorizing technique into their exegesis. — Anonymous