Meaning Quotes

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.

Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.

We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better.

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say.

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it.

When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.

I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

The meaning of the Street in all ways and at all times is the need for sharing life with others and the search for community.

If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.

It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?