Meaning Quotes

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

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.

A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

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.