Meaningless Quotes
638 Meaningless quotes by 497 unique authors
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No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that…
— Michael Novak
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If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless.
— Stephen Covey
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When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does seem, what the…
— Lewis Mumford
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Virtue is not a chemical product... it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease to care about…
— Lewis Mumford
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I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love…
— Roger Ebert
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People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which…
— Kazimir Malevich
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For the Suprematist, the proper means is the one that provides the fullest expression of pure feeling and ignores the habitually accepted object. The object…
— Kazimir Malevich
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Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents…
— Gerhard Richter
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The baseline is the same. Is Iran going to suspend enrichment activity? Is Iran going to return to the negotiations? Or is Iran going to…
— Joseph Adam Ereli
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It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work very hard in…
— Frank Smith
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Fashion is a part of the world and part of history. It's not a meaningless swirl of meaningless clothes. They (clothes) reflect the times.
— Valerie Steele
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Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.
— Pierre Alechinsky
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Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.
— E. J. Hughes
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You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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I also made two very important discoveries as time went on. In the first place, I discovered that making money was easy. I had been…
— Peace Pilgrim
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When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer dances, meaning arises.…
— Rajneesh
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You can say you love someone - but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions, your words become meaningless.
— Stephen Covey
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The only way I can experience my life as meaningless is to work as hard as I possibly can to tell myself it has no…
— Joseph Jaworski
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I think we live in an era of problems that, if you step back and look at them globally, can't be solved. One response to…
— Jonathan Franzen
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The Atonement of Jesus Christ outweighs, surpasses, and transcends every other mortal event, every new discovery, and every acquisition of knowledge, for without the Atonement…
— Tad R. Callister
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Your job is not done when you have determined your goal. You must also plan for and determine how it is to be accomplished. Goals…
— Gary Ryan
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It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy it…
— Vera Nazarian
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Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being , and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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