Quotes About Double Meanings

#1. I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.

Vik Muniz

#2. Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.

David Levithan

#3. I'm a sucker for double meanings in titles.

Nick Blaemire

#4. Ah, these double meanings," she said. "Who invented the English language, I wonder? He did not do a stellar job of it, whoever he was.

Mary Balogh

#5. I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs.

Jay-Z

#6. Photographs freed from the scientific bias can, and indeed usually do, have double meanings, implied meanings, unintended meanings, can hint and insinuate, and may even mean the opposite of what they apparently mean.

Peter C Bunnell

#7. He is lost in Agamemnon and Odysseus' wily double meanings, their lies and games of power. They have confounded him, tied him to a stake and baited him. I stroke the soft skin of his forehead. I would untie him if I could. If he would let me.

Madeline Miller

#8. Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#9. a management practice is a good practice when: It engages people and their interactions; It enables them to improve the system; It helps to delight all clients.

Jurgen Appelo

#10. Most things dopn't stay the way they are very long.

Richard Ford

#11. What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.

Francis Herbert Hedge

#12. So what you're saying [...] is that the translator has a lot of decisions to make. That there are multiple meanings to be found in any word, in any sentence. In any situation.

Stephanie Perkins

#13. He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.

Plato

#14. If I am despised by the world, If it considers me as nothing, A divine peace flood me. For I have the Host as my support. When I draw near the ciborium, All my sighs are heard ... To be nothing is my glory. I am the atom of Jesus ...

Therese Of Lisieux