Quotes About Meaning

I'm in the business of useless beauty, he says. And I'm happy with that. I don't think art needs an excuse to exist. We need beauty in our lives, so we don't go mad.

Even as a boy he'd known that his father's soul had touched him on the way up. He knew that meant something big and quiet and scary as hell

What others might dismiss as the vagaries of fate, my father interpreted as dancing lessons from the Divine.

In fact, you could effectively say that Richard Nixon has abolished the Presidential press conference as an institution. He may grant two or three a year, but when they're that infrequent they don't really mean anything.

What you have to accept at the outset is this: many men have died like Robert Ross, obscured by violence. Lawrence was hurled against a wall—Scott entombed in ice and wind—Mallory blasted on the face of Everest. Lost. We're told Euripides was killed by dogs—and this is all we know. The flesh was torn and scattered—eaten. Ross was consumed by fire. These are like statements: 'pay attention!' People can only be found in what they do.

and it replaces for me what others call religion.

The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean.

Beauty is how objects end. Beauty is death.

In God's plan, our quest for personal identity is meant to drive us back to him as Creator so that we find our meaning and purpose in him. When we live out a sense of who we are IN CHRIST we live our lives based on all we have been given by Christ. This keeps us from seeking to get those things from the people and situations around us. Much of the disappointments and heartache we experience is the result of our attempts to get something from relationships that we already have in Christ.

You and I will only be able to understand what is valuable when we examine things from the perspective of eternity.

Some time around 1932, Adolf Loos, the noted Viennese architect, said, "There is a great difference between an urn and a chamber pot, and in this difference there is leeway for culture.

Fine," Vanto said. The musculature of his throat relaxes partially, but not fully. "Personally, I'd be a lot more concerned about him, but that's up to you. But I'm still the bottom man on the roster. Why do you even care about me?" "You are my translator. You hold my words in your hand, and their meanings. A misjudged translation will confuse or anger. A deliberate error could lead to death.

Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense. And usually tries to leave a better aftertaste.

Optimal range would have been nice, but then 'optimal' merely meant 'preferred'.

I know that. What's your point?

If such a thing called happiness exists in this world, it should be something which resembles the limitless nothingness. Nihility is having nothing and having nothing to lose. If that isn't happiness, then what is?

A princess and a tiger, huh? Such excessive names! Our names mean 'monkey' and 'lewd!' I'm so jealous!

Quit worrying! Final exams don't hold a lot of meaning in one's life. Well said! That's our Ichigo! Let's share the pain of being morons!!!

You could say that all my characters are reflections of myself, in that I share their wish to count for something, and their utmost confusion as to how this is supposed to be done.

Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.

Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless.

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

One presidential advisor to another: If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.

The dead were gone and didn't know or care what they left behind.. If the dead still lived on the surface of this earth then it was in the minds of those who remembered them...