A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
John Morley
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Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.
WILLIAM WHEWELL Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.
SUZY KASSEM Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
PARACELSUS Novels set in distant places give us expectations not unlike those we have of travel writing, and of...
DARRYL PINCKNEY One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to ...
VICTOR HUGO All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge,...
EDWARD SAID No man ought to look a given horse in the mouth. The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
JOHN HEYWOOD Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER No he dejado de pensar en usted, y cuando pensaba en usted, eso quería decir que pensaba en mí.
DAVID FOENKINOS Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866 Think it not hard if you get not your wil...
SAMUEL RUTHERFORD The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, ar...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.
REX HARRISON Dance is the timeless interpretation of life.
SHAH ASAD RIZVI One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
MOLI The Morley thing has only come to light in the last few days and we just decided to give him a relea...
BRIAN CANAVAN All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a fun...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a func...
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SUSANNA KAYSEN Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive h...
HELEN KELLER Real success in life means the individual's conquest of himself; it means how he
has bettered himse...
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HANAN ASHRAWI Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinki...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
BIBLE our society today does not just need politicians but, politicians for a great and a positive change....
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW ...we ought not meanwhile to make use of doubt in the conduct of life.
RENé DESCARTES Say what you have to say, not what you ought.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU John has the ability, he is a slippery player, he is able to use good speed and he has a great chang...
JOE ALBERICI They ought to go away for a long time, if not for life.
PEGGY WARNER To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded...
SIMONE WEIL I cannot get John Edwards and John Kerry -- maybe they ought to meld here. And I think maybe they mi...
DAVID BONIOR The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter...
CHARLOTTE BRONTË The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. Morrie Schwartz, in "Tuesda...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY John Kerry could debate himself for ninty minutes.
GEORGE W. BUSH No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
BARTON GELLMAN We do not need a heavy theoretical thumb on the scales. What's important is how the traditional ...
DIANE S. SYKES I think Donald Trump's interpretation of marriage is something that he himself doesn't reall...
GEORGE TAKEI This issue arose when tribes informed the division that under their interpretation of tribal soverei...
NATHAN BARANKIN Art is life's dream interpretation.
OTTO RANK I'm not like John Lennon, who thought he was the great Almighty. I just think I'm John Lennon.
NOEL GALLAGHER Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for, his sins. One may pass...
THOMAS FULLER Pope John Paul would be more popular if he called himself Pope John Paul George and Ringo
PAUL KRASSNER A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent
HONORE DE BALZAC The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind. A man ought to vote with the whole o...
G.K. CHESTERTON Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. O...
SUZY KASSEM An interpreter at that level cannot - not 'should not' - simply cannot, make a mistake. He cannot. N...
VIKTOR SUKHODREV Words are a clumsy interpretation of thought, which is a clumsy interpretation of being.
RAIN BOJANGLES The fallacy that Morley in his life of Gladstone asserts to be the greatest affliction of politician...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed th...
FARAAZ KAZI 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON He's the quintessential interpreter of Irish songs.
LEON HYMAN The Winans have been some of my favorite people, and Marvin certainly has a real anointing when he p...
ANDRAE CROUCH I've talked with him for hours. His philosophy is pretty solid. I would be stunned if John ended up ...
BRUCE FEIN We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first d...
MARTIN LUTHER Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great i...
JOSE MARTI The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
PABLO CASALS Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth b...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of you. O, Father, give to your child what he himself knows ...
FRANÇOIS FENELON To get the sympathy of the Tribunal for himself ought always to be one of the first objects of the a...
RICHARD BURDON HALDANE [It turns out this kind of disagreement is not uncommon.] There's always a distinction between intel...
JONATHAN TUCKER Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision...
DAN SIMMONS Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is...
AVA DUVERNAY Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.
PETER DA SILVA They who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed of, and are not ashamed of what they ought...
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER God is the architect of the event; you are the interpreter of the moment.
STEVE MARABOLI I think we need to embrace the old interpretation for now, and we need to look at the entire ordinan...
MARK THORNTON A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you h...
BILL MOYERS John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.
FAY VINCENT One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things inn...
DANTE ALIGHIERI The best interpreter of the law is custom.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Your time is your life therefore you ought to tell where a part of your life went to
SUNDAY ADELAJA The worst abuse of process is that the United States senators  the...
GEORGE ALLEN Sir, my friend John Baynes used to say that the man who published a book without an index ought to b...
FRANCIS DOUCE I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great reli...
GEORGE ELIOT We ought to live life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of ...
RORY BREMNER Well, we think the convention is a great opportunity for people to learn more about John Kerry and J...
JEANNE SHAHEEN Eight of the teams believe one interpretation and Ferrari have a slightly different interpretation.
NICK FRY How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Art is Nature made by Man To Man the interpreter of God
OWEN MEREDITH Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS Now this state [that] gave us John Adams and John Kennedy has now given us John Kerry , a good man, ...
BILL CLINTON We ought not to forget that the whole Church, quite as much as any part of it, exists for the sole r...
HOWARD A. JOHNSON We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.
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JERRY SPRINGER The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice und...
WOODROW WILSON the definitive interpreter of the works of playwright Eugene O'Neill.
JASON ROBARDS John has changed. He is more grown up. He is a great father, and has more compassion when it comes t...
JAMIE COLTON I'm now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to f...
EMILY BRONTë Thought, if I may put it, is the man behind the possession, appearance, things we like, things we ha...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.
HOWARD DEAN I think there's pressure when you come in after a great coach like John Miller. But it's not pressur...
ANDY HEDRICK That ought to tell you something about him. In that game, he took it upon himself.
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much attention.
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earning.
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CHRISTOPHER MORLEY A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
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CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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MORLEY SAFER Has it changed the way you look at the rest of your life?
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CHRISTOPHER MORLEY You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.
MORLEY SAFER McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determina...
MORLEY SAFER Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The market appeared at first sight to take some heed from the Reserve Bank's recent warnings, with a...
HOWARD MORLEY People coming from Lakeview Drive have trouble getting out at that intersection. I just came from th...
DENNIS MORLEY