Parables famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

No man can prophesy with another's parable.
-- Anna Julia Cooper

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Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.
-- Beeban Kidron

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In church I feel very close to the publican of the parable.
-- Giulio Andreotti

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Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.
-- Morton Feldman

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Earthly regeneration is a parable, but just alone a parable of the things to come.
-- Paul Althaus

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All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.
-- Paul Claudel

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If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.
-- Ray William Johnson

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I'm at peace with myself because what I talk about is the way I live.
It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely
I dinna know what's a sadist. And if I forgive you for this afternoon, I reckon you'll forgive me, too, as soon as ye can sit down again." "As for my pleasure..." His lip twitched. "I said I would have to punish you. I did not say I wasna going to enjoy it." He crooked a finger at me. "Come here.
I cannot dance, O Lord, unless You lead me.
I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.
True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, underground, alternative newspaper that I edited and put out for about ten years.
We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else.
Stay small and control it yourself.
Big ideas don't make them selves known as big. They begin with the little, ridiculous ideas that most people would discard or reject. Every successful picture I've done has really been based on taking a very flimsy, fleeting little idea, grabbing hold of it, and taking it seriously.