Meaning Quotes - page 21

It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real. (Madeleine L'Engle)
But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire. View quote
Benjamin Lee Whorf
The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning. View quote
Marilyn Ferguson
Here then - the after math of meaning. A liftime finished between the space of two frames. View quote
Mark Z. Danielewski
The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind. View quote
Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned
To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song. View quote
Jason Newsted
When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat. View quote
Carre Otis
A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things. View quote
N. Scott Momaday
Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning. View quote
Philippe Starck
The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. View quote
Ieyasu Tokugawa
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. (D. Elton Trueblood)
A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done. View quote
Alex Van Halen
One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that ones life has meaning, that one is needed in this world. View quote
Hannah Senesh
Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own. View quote
Helen Oyeyemi
I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response. View quote
Charlton Heston
I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response. For an actor that is no greater loss than the loss of his audience. I can part the Red Sea, but I can't part with you, which is why I won't exclude you from this stage in my life. For now, I'm not changing anything. I will insist on work when I can; the doctors will insist on rest when I must. If you see a little less spring in my step, if your name fails to leap to my lips, you will know why. And if I tell you a funny story for the second time, please laugh anyway. View quote
Charlton Heston
When people are finding meaning in things -- beware. View quote
Edward Gorey
Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning. View quote
Etty Hillesum
You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning. View quote
Alexander Kluge
I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive. (Andrew Bird)
There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning. View quote
Andy Milonakis
Go and experience life the way that someone else might experience it. Maybe you'll find meaning in a different corner of your brain. The fact that it changed doesn't negate the fact that it ever mattered. View quote
Angel Olsen
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings. View quote
Anne Stevenson
The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning. View quote
Anne-Marie Slaughter