#interpret

How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly? ↗

— Tom Lantos

#act #arab #believe #decent #decent people

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#greater #interpreter #just #more #plays

True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty. ↗

— Eric Liu

#calls #constitution #critical #critical role #demand

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#endeavor #force #i #inept #interpret

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#civilization #contradict #interpretations #needs #often

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#fertilize #genius #interpret #itself #much

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. ↗

— Paul de Man

#affirms #after #ambivalence #both #cannot

If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#away #based #conceptual #criteria #down

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction. ↗

— Yann Martel

#fiction #how #imagination #interpret #interpretation

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

— Terry McAuliffe

#different #different ways #everybody #gets #interpreted