Quotes with meaning

Quotes 21 till 40 of 220.

  • Bryant H. McGill American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Jacques Barzun Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
    Jacques Barzun
    French-American historian (1907 - 2012)
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  • Eric Gill Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
    Eric Gill
    English sculptor and typeface designer (1882 - 1940)
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  • Burgess Owens As a former NFL player, I am one American who will have nothing to do with any NFL Team that cannot find the corporate courage to stand for the millions of courageous past great Americans whose sacrifice gave meaning to our flag and national anthem and to the millions upon millions who still dream to come to its free shores.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • David Byrne As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.
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  • Vaclav Havel As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Biz Stone Balancing family and work is a top priority for me, and I treat it as such. Meaning, I actually put specific family time and events in my calendar so that precious time is dedicated and properly blocked off from any work that may try to sneak its way into my schedule.
    Biz Stone
    American entrepreneur (1974 - )
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  • John Ruskin Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Anthony Robbins Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • John Ruskin Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
    The seven lamps of architecture
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Whorf But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Susan Sontag Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man -his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. What would have happened if Paul had allowed himself to be talked out of his journey to Damascus?
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Viktor E. Frankl Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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  • Paul Klee Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Boris Pasternak Considering the meaning this award has been given in the society to which I belong, I must reject this undeserved prize which has been presented to me. Please do not receive my voluntary rejection with displeasure.
    Telegram naar Nobelcomite (29-10-1958)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Armstrong Williams Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Bono Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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