Meaning Quotes

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The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. — Raymond Radiguet
Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the… — Michael Cunningham
The meaning of your life depends on which ideas you permit to use you. Who you think you are determines where you put your attention.… — Gangaji
Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to… — H. L. Mencken
Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to… — Patricia Hill Collins
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… — Charles Ives
The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning. — Lynne Truss
Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity… — Sheila Jeffreys
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning. — Sheila Jeffreys
People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people’s actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or another. — Paul Ekman
I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find… — Fred Hoyle
The theology of the hammer embraces wholeheartedly the idea that the love of God and love of man must be blended. The word and the… — Millard Fuller
The Savior’s words are simple, yet their meaning is profound and deeply significant. We are to love God and to love and care for our… — M. Russell Ballard
How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears a jewel in… — Robert Penn Warren
The meaning of life is to see. — Huineng
The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Don’t worry about constructing beautiful sentences. Beauty comes from… — David Gerrold
The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing… — Norman Borlaug
We Sioux spend a lot of time thinking about everyday things which in our minds are mixed up with the spiritual. We see in the… — John Fire Lame Deer
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… — Cesare Lombroso
Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are,… — David Leonhardt
Hear the meaning within the word.... — William Shakespeare
In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other. — Charles Henry Parkhurst
I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room!… — Evan Parker
Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space.… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. — Morrie Schwartz

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