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Meaning Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion'. Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
- Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
- In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we…
- Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating…
- A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.
- Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then…
- Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved;…
More Meaning Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already… — Saint Augustine
- Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man… — Sai Baba
- The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. — Richard Bach
- Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to… — Robert Baden-Powell
- It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have… — Ansel Adams
- When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally… — Ansel Adams
- I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some… — Toni Cade Bambara
- Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow. — Dennis Banks