Meaning Quotes

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'

People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

I'm satisfied it's very black, meaning 'in the black'.

Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!'

To live is to suffer, but to survive, well that's to find meaning in the suffering.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.