Quotes with meaning

Quotes 81 till 100 of 220.

  • Philip Wylie If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
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  • C. S. Lewis 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
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Aristotle Onassis If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
    Aristotle Onassis
    Greek shipping magnate (1906 - 1975)
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  • Albert Camus If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Barry Schwartz In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Alfred Marshall In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
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  • Cat Stevens In music, you can use metaphors with ease - if a person doesn't understand the parable, they can still enjoy the melody of the music. If, however, a person reads a book and misses the meaning of its metaphors, this will be extremely disheartening for both the reader as well as the author.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Thomas Merton In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ''finding himself.'' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • H. A. Kramers In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.
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  • Boris Pasternak 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
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Graham Greene Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bill Clinton It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.
    Supreme Court 1998
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Ansel Adams It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Anthony Trollope It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Tony Robbins It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
    Tony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Anais Nin 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
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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