Meanings Quotes

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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. — Alfred Adler
A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can… — Henri Bergson
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion… — David Bohm
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will… — W. E. B. Du Bois
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare… — Richard Bach
Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives. — James Russell Lowell
For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for… — Mary Caroline Richards
For, as has been indicated from the innate experience as well as from the longings within, a home - home - with all its deeper,… — Edgar Cayce
[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means of which men… — Clifford Geertz
Now, near the Winter Solstice, it is good to light candles. All the nice meanings of bringing light to the world can be beautiful. But… — Ralph Levy
Painting, like music, has nothing to do with the reproduction of nature, nor interpretation of intellectual meanings. Whoever is able to feel the beauty of… — Hilla von Rebay
According to the dictionary, knock has two definitions: "to strike something with a sharp blow," and "to find fault with, a harsh and often petty… — Marvin J. Ashton
Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use. — Jean Aitchison
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. — Evelyn Waugh
One writes to find words' meanings. — Joy Williams
Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions. — Ludwig von Mises
Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and… — M R DeHaan
I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a… — Paul Simon
The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those admitted to prison… — Michelle Alexander

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