I don’t need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I’ve never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word ‘friend.’ I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.
You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it’s so worth it.
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.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute… that gives meaning to our lives.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience’s imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there’s no fourth wall.
I consider personally the election of Barack Hussein Obama to have very great symbolic meaning. A Muslim and a Christian name – so in his name there is a synthesis, although people from time to time want to overlook that, and they do it intentionally.
I always set myself huge goals each year, and I’m pretty good at manifesting them, which ends up meaning I take a lot on my plate.
No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.
It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
Most people would say the meaning of life is to make the world a little more beautiful, or nicer, or more interesting. But how? These days, our main answer to that is: through work.
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.
Man’s constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.
I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things.
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.
Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don’t know why-the lyrics had no meaning.
The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.
I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word ‘existentialism.’
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.
I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
When we look at what has the strongest statistical relationship to overall evaluation of your life, the first one is your career well-being, or the mission, purpose and meaning of what you’re doing when you wake up each day.
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
In the public realm, secularism should not concede a single inch to religious intrusions. To argue otherwise is to violate the meaning of secularism.
I am very much an only child, meaning I am self-reliant, egocentric, sociable. I had my mother, father, and an uncle who lived with us, all doting on me.
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?
All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it’s about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don’t want it to get in the way of what someone else’s understanding is. It’s not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning.
Religion comes from the word ‘re’ or again and ‘ligare’ meaning to bind or tie back. The purpose of religion is to unite the self with God or the creative force. Music, sacred spaces, and meaningful icons are the way we conjoin our minds with the transcendental.
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
Autobiography is awfully seductive; it’s wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass – the slave narrative – speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying ‘I,’ meaning ‘we.’
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we’re doing something that makes a difference. I believe we’re doing that in the Justice Department.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
I don’t view my memory as accurate or static – and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality – so ‘autobiographical,’ to me, is closer in meaning to ‘fiction’ than ‘autobiography.’
People say ‘dream big,’ that’s kind of one of those motivational sayings, but I would dream hard, meaning I just wanted it so badly, I could feel it.
When I take a risk, I like it to be a calculated risk, meaning I make it as small as possible.
I’m much more interested in allowing a story to happen, and people find whatever meaning is in there.
I don’t indulge in double meaning humor.
Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.
Love of man for woman – love of woman for man. That’s the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
The Left has taken over the universities and, increasingly, high schools and elementary schools. It dominates the news and entertainment media. And many judges and courts are leftist – meaning that their decisions are guided by leftism more than by the law or the Constitution.
People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
I don’t think that word – the word pirate – has any real meaning. Or it’s something that’s had meaning imposed on it.
Rather than say he’s an atheist, a friend of mine says, ‘I’m a tooth fairy agnostic,’ meaning he can’t disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.
It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words – of the ideas more than the language.
Drinking and partying never appealed to me in lyrics – they don’t have a lot of meaning behind them.
But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
I consider myself a spiritual atheist. I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don’t believe there’s a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.
In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.
The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it’s a euphemism for sarcasm. ‘I’m not being sarcastic; I’m being ironic.’ No, you’re not. You’re evading the responsibility for being sarcastic.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
