Quotes with meaningless

  • I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.
  • As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.
  • I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.

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  • Hannah Arendt Action without a name, a ''who'' attached to it, is meaningless.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Aristotle Onassis After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
    Aristotle Onassis
    Greek shipping magnate (1906 - 1975)
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  • Campbell Brown As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bill Murray Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • William Zinsser Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.
    William Zinsser
    American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher (1922 - 2005)
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  • Abdallah II Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
    Abdallah II
    Jordan King (1962 - )
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  • Gerald Early Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.
    Gerald Early
    American essayist and American (1952 - )
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  • Bergen Evans Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
    The Natural History of Nonsense XIX
    Bergen Evans
    American professor and television host
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  • Bruce Springsteen I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bryan Greenberg I was a caddy once and I lost the golfer's clubs. Plus I don't know how to golf, so I was the worst caddy ever. Then I was a mortgage brokers assistant, so that was just carrying around a lot of files - pretty meaningless, mind-numbing work.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • B. D. Wong I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Robert H. Schuller If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Octavio Paz Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • John Wooden Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Denis Waitley No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!
    Doctor Zhivago
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Chuck Knox Practice without improvement is meaningless.
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  • Woody Allen Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bernard Goldberg The most meaningless term in the English language is 'I take full responsibility.' When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Bernard Devoto The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
    Bernard Devoto
    American historian, essayist and teacher
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