Meaningless Quotes
638 Meaningless quotes by 497 unique authors
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We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past.... The Bible's "Israel" is a literary fiction... Not…
— Thomas L. Thompson
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Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the…
— George Lois
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There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Sex, that’s meaningless, I can understand that, but dinner; that’s heavy. That’s like an hour.
— Jerry Seinfeld
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To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the…
— Kazimir Malevich
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To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.…
— Murray Bookchin
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The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid. Awareness atrophies. Dumb gets dumber. Lists are everywhere – the five things you need to know about so-and-so;…
— Roger Cohen
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If man has been kicked up out of that which is only impersonal by chance , then those things that make him man-hope of purpose…
— Francis Schaeffer
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Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.
— Asger Jorn
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Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly…
— Frederick Buechner
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Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born…
— Norman Borlaug
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People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good [investment] ideas should…
— Bill Gross
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Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.
— Franz Grillparzer
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If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless.
— Jacque Fresco
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Even the greatest idea can become meaningless in the rush to judgement. To gauge an idea as feasible we must cut our ties to the…
— Shigeo Shingo
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Life is chaotic and meaningless, and you have to find your meaning. You must find the answer, you can't just live. That's the point of…
— Robert McKee
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My aim is to communicate with the last man in the audience. Art minus communication is meaningless. The term 'abhinaya' is not just facial expressions.…
— Padma Subrahmanyam
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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
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When we find ourselves unable to reason (as one often does when presented with, say, a problem in algebra) it is because our imagination is…
— W. W. Sawyer
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We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a…
— Lewis Mumford
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The first myth to dispel is that Africa is not a country. It's made up of 53 different countries. So to say 'invest in Africa'…
— Euvin Naidoo
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Some Christians worried about a faith that was so embracing as to be meaningless, that exalted not the Almighty so much as the American way…
— Nancy Gibbs
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Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.
— Lee Kuan Yew
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