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Meaning Quotes by William Maxwell
- Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).
- What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a…
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- 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