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Quotes About Meaning

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.
~ Gabriel Byrne
We treat the lyrics like the woman any man wants to impress the most. We give the lyrics all the attention we can. I'm not sure other formats are remembering that the lyrics are what it's all about.
~ Garth Brooks
Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.
~ Gore Vidal
Every man's life is, consciously or unconsciously, a quest for the infinite and the eternal reality.
~ Lyman Abbott
Lovely was my compliment. Could you not come up with your own?" "Lord Paen said compliment her, he did not say we had to be creative about it," the second man pointed out with a shrug
~ Lynsay Sands
The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no difference between a death man and a man without love.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
In the eye of the universe, man is nothing! And man's hardest job is to be able to get rid of this nothingness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.
~ Murray Kempton
This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith
~ Paul Ricoeur
Clothes do not make the man; friends and engagement with life do.
~ Perry Brass
Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something bigger, even though you're looking at something very simple.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
~ O. Henry
Astounded—and indifferent—for he was a man who, in effect, had no 'day before'.
~ Oliver Sacks
To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.
~ Oscar Wilde
But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson