Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence King
TimeMindWorldAmericanMeaning
You cannot break a horse until they're about 2 years old. You can halter-break them, meaning teach them how to lead and stuff, if you choose to, but you can't really break them until they're 2 because there aren't developed enough, you know what I mean? It would be like a 5-year-old playing football or something, you know?
Brady Jandreau
FootballHorseEnoughMeaningChoose
This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.
Paul Ricoeur
WisdomBestJobBookMeaningMost
Around '62 in Baltimore, all the girls had those big hairdos. And then suddenly, a few of the really hip ones started doing their hair straight. And people panicked. And it was called going 'Joe,' meaning Joe College. And people would say, 'I don't know. Should I be 'Joe'? I can't decide.'
John Waters
PeopleCollegeHairDoingMeaning
I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.
Jurgen Habermas
DecisionMistakeWarMeaningSerious
A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
Carl Jung
LifeMorningGrowMeaningSeventy
You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.
Bruce McCulloch
FunnyMeWeirdMeaningYouKnow
If all countries are exceptional, the word loses its meaning.
Paul Craig Roberts
MeaningWordExceptionalCountries
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
Anais Nin
LifeBookMeaningPersonIndividual
I live in the sky as a pilot, so it has great meaning to me.
James Turrell
LiveGreatSkyMeMeaningPilot
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
C. S. Lewis
EyesLightUniverseMeaningDark
Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.
Armstrong Williams
AgeMeaningMoralityEvenOurLives
Two best friends can totally say they love and adore each other, without any meaning of romance.
Neha Kakkar
LoveBestFriendsMeaningSayTwo
The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad.
Stephen Cohen
HomeMeaningActingDangerousAbroad
The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.
James J. Gibson
ValueMeaningThingConsistsAffords
If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.
Eddie Izzard
DoingMeaningYouFeelingDownGo
Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning.
Antonin Scalia
MeaningYouModernGiveTextSome
That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.
Marc Webb
GreatMeaningYouYoungTrueWay
You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract. You can't do business with a firm who swears they'll do one thing one day and does just the opposite the next. You can't do business with a company who takes your goods on a cash basis and then pays you off in bum harmonicas.
Stephen Vincent Benet
BusinessDayManMeaningYouKnow
I must act now without knowing the results. Thus, I give my actions their only possible meaning for me.
Hugh Prather
MeMeaningResultsPossibleKnowing
You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
Barbara Sher
LifeStartWishMeaningYouDream
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
Ansel Adams
EyeThinkMeaningReadyTrueSee
In Scripture, when something is repeated, especially a name, it shows an emotional connection, a deeper sense of meaning.
Lecrae
NameMeaningConnectionEmotional
During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.
Sol LeWitt
ArtWordsMeaningWayInterested
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