What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?
Antonin Scalia
YouMeanHalfwayInterpretationText
It is very clear from the text of the Geneva Conventions that families have the right to know about the whereabouts of their missing and that belligerents have a duty to inform families if they have indication and if they are detaining people.
Peter Maurer
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This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
RelationshipTreatLiteratureText
Writers are naturally obsessed with books, the tangible artifacts of their labor. Even beyond the text, I love the physicality of books, the possibilities presented by their substance and form.
Ken Liu
LovePossibilitiesLaborBeyondText
The Bible is not an antiquated text. The scriptures are the text that will lead us into the future.
Erwin McManus
FutureBibleWillLeadUsText
A lot of my friends have told me to read 'Tao Te Ching' - a classic Chinese text on the fundamentals of Taoism.
Billy Howle
MeFriendsFundamentalsClassicText
The text is a limited field of possible constructions.
Paul Ricoeur
PossibleTextFieldLimited
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
Eldridge Cleaver
HistoryRedBloodHumanPassText
Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
Rabih Alameddine
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No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.
Harold Bloom
StrongEnoughPoemTextEvenEvery
A film is different than a script. The text of the script is what it is.
John Curran
FilmDifferentTextThanScript
You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text.
Robert Gottlieb
BeautyFeelYouLoyalMayText
I definitely check my phone for texts a lot - like, 'Did anyone text me? Is anyone thinking about me? Does anyone love me?'
Spike Jonze
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Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about the micro-narrative when you're investigating a text.
Tom Stoppard
LoveEndYouFindOutText
Those who read the Scriptures and judge for themselves, not resting satisfied with the perverted application of the text, do not find the distinction that theology and ecclesiastical authorities have made in the condition of the sexes.
Lucretia Mott
JudgeFindRestingSatisfiedText
The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
BornFirstSingleLineOutText
I didn't know anything about '12 Years a Slave.' Not the book, not Solomon Northup, which I was quite shocked by, once I'd read it, that it wasn't a seminal text. I think it deserves to be.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
BookThinkKnowAnythingSlaveText
I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.
Anthony Hopkins
PoetryLearnYouAliveTextReally
People who text a lot are not my favorite thing.
Penny Marshall
PeopleFavoriteWhoTextLotThing
I don't Twitter. I don't text for those very reasons. I don't want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.
Nick Saban
WantAnythingEncourageWouldText
Even after the text is written, there are a tremendous number of stages along the way to the finished book. If a publisher cares about the finished product, none of them will be omitted.
Jane Lindskold
BookProductWillWayAlongText
I don't watch TV, I don't spend time on the Internet, and I don't party much. I don't text very much, either.
Esperanza Spalding
TimeInternetPartyWatchTextMuch
If we are recognizing the Bible as a sacred text, then we are violating the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Tennessee by designating it as the official state book.
Bill Haslam
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It's true that interacting through text means no eyelines, no facial expressions, no tone of voice. That can be an advantage, helping us to consider content rather than eloquence, import rather than source.
Nick Harkaway
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