Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I can't imagine making something that is made only to be scary. For me, the darkness and scary material has to have… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
For a lot of white people, just suggesting that being white has meaning will trigger a deep, defensive response. And that defensiveness… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“Fear is like the Devil, both grudgingly reveal their ultimately futile ability to halt our Spiritual Growth, and keep us from our… — Raymond D. Longoria Jr Copy Share Image
I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“Myles P. doesn’t resist, he sinks down and down, letting the sound of Willard’s lisp close over him light as a foaming… — Vanessa Place Copy Share Image
True love or the lack thereof, sometimes works in mysterious ways. One minute your world is spinning in one direction, you meet… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
“The second way of finding a meaning in life is by experiencing something—such as goodness, truth and beauty—by experiencing nature and culture… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I was known for a lot of dunks, but my first big dunk really came here in New York. I had some… — Shawn Kemp Copy Share Image
“She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
If, you know, all your life you're making films or whatever, and somehow along the way you lose meaning in whatever you're… — Angel Olsen Copy Share Image
“You're bigger than I remember," she said stupidly. "You too," he said. "I also remember that you were beautiful." "Memory does play… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Work is sacred. It is not just a way to earn money or gain power, though it may result in both. Work… — Anne Wilson Schaef Copy Share Image
“Life is an opportunity to create meaning by our deeds, our actions and how we manage our way through the short part… — William Meikle Copy Share Image
As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Don't forget there are two sides to performing. Finding the truth, but you also have to be transparent enough for the audience… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
“Europeans believe that culture is something they can grasp and touch because, for them, culture is comprised of objects, or remnants of… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
“Here, her hand in mine was the one reality that severed us from the cold click-clack of Hell. I rubbed her hand… — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it's a… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
“I accept the idea of helping men, and of being cherished by them. I’ve always had that feeling. If I could have… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
My favourite language, actually, is Czech, just because it's so colourful. We have so many combinations, words, and expressions. I have to… — Petr Cech Copy Share Image
I did years of work that was enjoyable, but didn't necessarily always have a point to it, and I think you get… — Fearne Cotton Copy Share Image
“How someone treats me (kind or cruel), is only between them and God, And my reaction the experience is only between myself… — Raymond D. Longoria Jr Copy Share Image
“The human animal needs meaning as well as food and air and sex and water. The sense that life is meaningless is… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
“Everything we do and think has consequences and everything is connected by this web and has a meaning. When we touch the… — Skadi Winter Copy Share Image
Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. It’s a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“Any fact becomes important when it’s connected to another. The connection changes the perspective; it leads you to think that every detail… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Without meaning to sound crass, I've never had any psychological... help. It's because I feel my work is so revealing about who… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
“Life isn’t fair. It doesn’t make sense. This unfairness is felt by everyone, from the Las Vegas tunnel dweller all the way… — John-Talmage Mathis Copy Share Image
I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I don’t claim to know an over-arching ‘Meaning of Life,’ but I do operate under the understanding that life should not be… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives. This meaning is… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“We think of ourselves as failures, rather than renounce our belief in the possibility of perfection. We hang on to the hope… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
“My meaning is, that any state of action or passion implies previous action or passion. It does not become because it is… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano,… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
