Meaning Quotes

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

Man lives in a world of meaning.

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it.

When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.

I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

The meaning of the Street in all ways and at all times is the need for sharing life with others and the search for community.

If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.

It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.

It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.

Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

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.