Meaning Quotes

4592 Meaning quotes by 2692 unique authors

Mass market desire is about meaning and experience. — Sohrab Vossoughi
The secrets I receive reflect the full spectrum of complicated issues that many of us struggle with every day: Intimacy, trust, meaning, humor, and desire. — Frank Warren
But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying attention,… — Larry Brooks
Something similar happens on the other side of the equation: Giving kindness does us as much good as receiving it. . . . The true… — Piero Ferrucci
Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing “the most”, meaning that to don a dress, heels, lipstick, and… — Janet Mock
To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks,… — Abraham Kaplan
Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their… — George Parsons Lathrop
In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from… — Utada Hikaru
I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven years.… — Richard Helms
Proud meaning that... proud means we have to be one till the end eh? Till the end we have to be proud? — Jaejoong
Creativity is at the root of love and meaning in this life. — Laurence Overmire
I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see of the objective… — Giorgio Morandi
I thought about the meaning of pluralism in a world where the forces that seek to divide us are strong. I came to one conclusion:… — Eboo Patel
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do… — Mortimer Adler
Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we make to others… — Laura Schlessinger
An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises an explicit list… — David Berlinski
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real… — Pearl S. Buck
What makes it possible to learn advanced math fairly quickly is that the human brain is capable of learning to follow a given set of… — Keith Devlin
My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the messianic moment. And… — Elie Wiesel
We need less posturing and more genuine charisma. Charisma was originally a religious term, meaning "of the spirit" or "inspired." It's about letting God's light… — Marianne Williamson
Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to… — Andrew Solomon
By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader… — George Orwell
An absence of meaning opens a gap in time. — Michel de Certeau
The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order. — Michel de Certeau
The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It's retelling is never finished and will not be until… — Timothy Radcliffe

Who Wrote These Meaning Quotes

2,692 authors contributed a total of 4,592 Meaning Quotes, led by these top contributors: