Best Meanings Quotations
329 Meanings quotes by 277 unique authors
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Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to…
— John Crowe Ransom
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Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.
— Aristotle
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Change your meanings you alter your destiny. Life does not give us what we want. Life gives us whatever we expect.
— Harold Homer Anderson
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Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the…
— Hermann Hesse
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Christmas has been a season of mixed interests and meanings, but the very foundation, of course, is its religious significance. No matter what other personal…
— Jimmy Carter
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If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.
— John Dewey
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Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other…
— Unknown Author
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I'm not an expert in the deck at all. My interest lies somewhere near a sense that words are like tarot cards, and that a…
— Alice Notley
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Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.
— Christopher Bram
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We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can…
— Kij Johnson
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It's not for me to share the meanings of others. I am only in charge of my own.
— Paul Cornell
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Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and, without our being…
— William Hurrell Mallock
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... somehow I couldn't stop. I had turned into someone that I would have pitied in another life; someone who searched for signs, who analyzed…
— Jennifer Weiner
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To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them ‘common’ to all participants in the discourse. (The etymological root…
— Robin Lakoff
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Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.
— Kathleen Raine
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Every age requires a new approach to the Qur’an for the simple reason that the Quran is made for all ages. It is our duty…
— Muhammad Asad
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Dharma has several connotations in South Asian religions, but in Buddhism it has two basic, interrelated meanings: dharma as 'teaching' as found in the expression…
— Taitetsu Unno
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The mantras, however, are mysterious and each word is profound in meaning. When they are transliterated into Chinese, the original meanings are modified and the…
— Kukai
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When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to…
— Susan Sontag
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I’m not too keen on talking. I always have the feeling that the words are getting away from me, escaping and scattering. It’s not to…
— Delphine de Vigan
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It's a matter of seeing the original meaning of all things. The world is full of all kinds of meanings. But our minds are so…
— Yi Mun-yol
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Knowledge is sacred and the choice to be informed or merely entertained in today's world is a very revealing test of the times. Expanding your mind…
— Barbara Marciniak
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A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you.…
— John Steinbeck
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Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.
— Rebecca Solnit
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