The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.
... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative.
Depression is melancholy minus its charms.
What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!
Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom
What he needed was a metaphorical Bobbit job
An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
My hope is that the music will serve as a metaphor for the actions taken by the inhabitants of this wonderful planet as a call for world harmony on all levels.
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth.
It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
It's like dance is a metaphor for going beyond where you think you can go.
The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities.
Our central problem is not sin and guilt, as it is within the monarchical model. For the Spirit model, our central problem is “estrangement,” whose specific meaning of “separated from that to which one belongs” is most appropriate. ... For th...
There comes a time in a man's life, if he is unlucky and leads a full life, when he has a secret so dirty that he knows he never will get rid of it. (Shakespeare knew this and tried to say it, but he said it just as badly as anyone ever said it. 'All...
If we lived close to nature in an agricultural society, the seasons as metaphor and fact would continually frame our lives. But the master metaphor of our era does not come from agriculture - it comes from manufacturing. We do not believe that we 'gr...
A poem without metaphor is a gelding; useless to nightmares.
I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.
