Meaning Quotes

It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.

When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.