At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.
William Safire
PeopleMeaningMeanPointWordUse
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
Helen Garner
NatureRainMeaningFallIntention
Why take notes? The obvious reason is to remember. Visual note-taking translates what we hear into pictures that give context, color, and meaning. By adding symbols, visual metaphors, likenesses of people, and room layouts, we add several dimensions.
Tom Wujec
PeopleColorRememberMeaningWhy
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
George Orwell
FearDemocracyMeaningDownStop
The meaning of words has become so blurred by past usage that 'abstract' is identified with 'vague' and 'unreal,' and 'inwardness' with a sort of traditional beatitude... The conception of the word 'plastic' has also been limited by individual interpretations.
Piet Mondrian
PastWordsMeaningBecomePlastic
The Americans have claimed they want to completely stop Iran's oil exports. They don't understand the meaning of this statement, because it has no meaning for Iranian oil not to be exported, while the region's oil is exported.
Hassan Rouhani
MeaningStopWantUnderstandOil
The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.
Robert Bork
ChangePromisesConstitutionMeaning
We want to help everyone find meaning in their life and help translate the story that each person actually matters in the world.
Erwin McManus
LifeWorldStoryHelpMeaningFind
Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.
Phil McGraw
ChallengeSufferingMeaningFinding
I think that there is something about the ritual of making things more difficult that people find meaning in.
Carrie Brownstein
PeopleThinkMeaningFindDifficult
As a fan of pop music myself, I hate discovering that a favourite track has a completely different meaning from the one I thought.
Romy Madley Croft
MusicMyselfHateThoughtMeaning
We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.
Erin McKean
YouthMeaningYoungYearsRestore
You could have names like Hatred; you could have names that mean something like Suffering or Poverty. So names are not just names: names have real meaning, and they tend to tell the world about the circumstances of your parents at the time that you were born.
Petina Gappah
TimeParentsSufferingWorldMeaning
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.
Adam Rich
PeopleMeMeaningWriteMeaningful
The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.
Roman Jakobson
LightSpeechMeaningStructureTask
Ferguson and St. Louis County are not the first places that we have become engaged to ensure fair and equitable policing, and they will not be the last. The Department of Justice will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that the Constitution has meaning for all communities.
Eric Holder
WorkJusticeConstitutionMeaning
Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
Paul Tillich
LifeGodFaithRealityNameMeaning
Google is omniscient of what people search for and do. Facebook has over a billion subscribers, meaning Mark Zuckerberg has personal information about one in every seven people on Earth. U.S.A., Brazil, Mexico, India and Indonesia are at the top of that list.
Eduardo Paes
PeopleSearchMeaningInformation
Apple, iTunes, and streaming services have made the single a more easy thing to access. What that's done has made the album as a collection of songs almost meaningless. But an album that has a concept or story or reason to be an album, if anything, has more meaning now than it ever has.
Matt Bellamy
StoryMeaningEasyAppleDoneNow
I don't know what a credit bubble means. I don't even know what a bubble means. These words have become popular. I don't think they have any meaning.
Eugene Fama
WordsThinkMeaningCreditKnow
There is a kind of sadness in not wanting the things that give so many other people their life's meaning. There can be sadness at not living out a more universal story - the supposed life cycle.
Sheila Heti
LifePeopleSadnessStoryMeaning
The foundations of modern civil-rights law are exceptionally secure. Conservative judges nibble around the edges sometimes, and people still debate the constitutionality of affirmative-action programs. But almost no one seriously argues about the basic meaning or legitimacy of core civil-rights protections.
Benjamin Wittes
PeopleLawMeaningDebateSometimes
You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.
Martin Seligman
PositiveGoodAccomplishmentMeaning
The worst thing is always thinking of titles for records, with some reason behind them, and she just came out with the word, which she thought was a good word, a hard word, and since then we've sort of attached loads of meaning to it.
Emma Anderson
GoodThinkingThoughtMeaningWorst
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