Meaning Quotes - page 22

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning. (Armstrong Williams)
The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation. View quote
Arthur Erickson
We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is. View quote
Arthur Middleton
I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that. View quote
Adam Rich
What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life. View quote
Adrian Grenier
Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love. View quote
Billy Ocean
You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore. View quote
Bruce McCulloch
American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality. View quote
Bryant H. McGill
My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters. View quote
Charlene Tilton
All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time. View quote
Charles Hazlewood
I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child. (Christopher Guest)
Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay. View quote
Crispin Glover
Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used. View quote
David Lehman
To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets. View quote
Dan Castellaneta
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire. View quote
Donald Kagan
First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas. View quote
Daniel Yergin
We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions. View quote
Eric Liu
The Cube can seem alive as it heats up in your hand. The fact that each face of the Cube is made of three layers of three blocks has an important meaning. View quote
Erno Rubik
I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway. View quote
Evan Parker
The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain. View quote
Fiona Shaw
The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word. (Gilbert Murray)
In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say. View quote
Giorgio Moroder
Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one. View quote
Glen Campbell
Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not. View quote
Gordon Getty
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. View quote
Herbert Gold