Common Non Literal Sayings

#1. Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment. - Author: Herbert Simon

#2. it is not clear that the government needed dragnets to catch Zazi. If Zazi was e-mailing with terrorists under surveillance, a search warrant would have sufficed to capture his communications. Similarly, - Author: Julia Angwin

#3. I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling. - Author: David Coverdale

#4. People have maybe, sometimes, said that I can, occasionally, be a teeny bit edgy and judgmental. - Author: Christa Miller

#5. My process of preparing for any type of psychic work is to meditate and pray the rosary. - Author: John Edward

#6. Portals and doorways are common symbolic constructs that represent transformative rites of passage. To look for a literal portal would be like trying to locate the actual Gates of Heaven. - Author: Dan Brown

#7. In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research. - Author: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#8. I'm drawn to very large texts that are mammothly popular in different parts of the world but are almost unknown here [the USA]. They're safe bets; if they've been around for 2,000 years, there's a reason. It's often a title or just a phrase within the text that will compel me to adapt it. - Author: Mary Zimmerman

#9. How can you use what most excites, angers, or upsets you to achieve what you want to be, do or experience? - Author: Julie Connor

#10. Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome
black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds - Author: Barack Obama

#11. Spiritual fatherhood has nothing to do with power or control. It is a fatherhood of compassion. - Author: Henri J.M. Nouwen

#12. When a presidential candidate is publicly requesting help from the Russians, you know that there is something seriously going wrong in the USA. - Author: Steven Magee

#13. Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have. - Author: Andy Stanley

#14. But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. ISAIAH 40:31 NIV - Author: Various

#15. If they really wanted some fancy new term for "zombie" to catch on, they should have made it easy to shout at the top of your lungs, - Author: Mira Grant