Meaning Quotes

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.

Karl Rahner

MyselfWordsMeaningBodyOwnUs

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

Christopher Nolan

PowerMeaningYouFirstSomething

When people you don't know say nice things about you, if you allow yourself, even subconsciously, to attach a shred of meaning to it, when the opposite happens, when people you don't know say bad things about you, you can't attach that same meaning.

Theo Epstein

YourselfPeopleMeaningYouBadSay

I don't think equality is intrinsically valuable, meaning in and of itself. I'm not against inequality... if Bill Gates gets another hundred million dollars, it's no skin off my nose.

Angus Deaton

EqualityThinkMeaningSkinAgainst

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

Kent Nerburn

LifeHeartPeaceCareMeaningWill

I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.

Ioan Gruffudd

TimeAmericanMeaningBackLiving

I'm much more interested in allowing a story to happen, and people find whatever meaning is in there.

Colum McCann

PeopleStoryMeaningFindMoreMuch

'A League of Their Own' had some special meaning for me, I guess - it's about women joining together and being empowered, but also about sisters sticking together even when there's drama and struggles. I'm really close to my two sisters and my brother, so I liked that about it.

Rebel Wilson

WomenTogetherBrotherMeMeaning

I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore.

Angel Olsen

ChangeTimeMeSingingMeaningLong

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Kurt Vonnegut

LifeWomenMenPuzzleMeaningFind

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Hannah Arendt

MeaningStorytellingWithoutError

'Hellraiser' was what 'Hellraiser' was. It was a $900k movie, and there wasn't anything I would have done differently. But 'Nightbreed' was taken away from me. It was thought that its meaning wasn't... Its meaning didn't chime with the producers.

Clive Barker

MeThoughtMeaningDoneAnything

Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.

Ravi Zacharias

LifeMeDieQuestionsMeaningWrong

The island is named Oooguruk, an Inupiaq word meaning 'bearded seal,' an animal plentiful on the shores of Alaska's North Slope.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

AnimalMeaningIslandAlaskaWord

I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.

Kim Ki-duk

WorldMeaningTrySingleThings

The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung

SadHappySadnessMeaningLoseWord

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.

Boris Pasternak

CommunityMeHonorViewMeaning

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

Paul Ricoeur

MeaningEventBecauseTestimony

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.

John W. Dawson

WordsAmericanMeaningNowOthers

I went out of my way to make 'Immortal' sound perfect. 'Immortal,' 'Just What I Am,' and 'King Wizard,' those are perfect beats. Not a lot of people can perform on them. I say that meaning they're tailor-made for me.

Kid Cudi

I AmKingPeopleMeMeaningPerfect

Religious traditions are easy to lose sight of in today's marketing frenzy. Make sure you take time to gently usher your little ones into the rituals that have special meaning for you.

Adam Mansbach

TodayTimeMeaningEasyYouLose

It's not like during your normal day, anyone says, 'How do having meaning in your life? How do you make meaning in your life?'

Bruce Eric Kaplan

LifeDayMeaningYouNormalYour

It's a matter of reducing the work to its very simplest possible state, eliminating all of the things that lead away from the guts of the work, the thing the work is really about. Anything that's there must build towards its over-all organization and meaning.

Paul Cullen

WorkOrganizationMeaningPossible

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Anais Nin

ArtPerceptionMeaningMagicNewUp

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