Quotes About Meaning

You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.

This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . .

I am a tremendous 'Star Wars' fan; I know the story means an enormous love to me. I love the characters.

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

The [Confederate] Flag is - literally - sewed division. People claim it means different things to different people, but it harkens back to the pro-slavery side of the war.

The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle.

These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world... And something sooner or later has to give.

If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.

Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now as well.

God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning.Surely, while we live we are not lost.Oh Janos, Janos my brother!Surely we are not lost--while we live.

Christ! What are patterns for?

The Djojobojo Prophecy doesn't just tell you WHAT happened and WHERE it happened...it tells you WHY it happened!

My book "Bamboo Walls" is forever because the Djojobojo Prophecy is timeless!

And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe "Oh.

Without love, the world itself would not survive.

People need what they think of as a poem to be read at their bar mitzvah, their wedding, a funeral, whatever. And people are looking for hope and inspiration. I understand that.

It's scented! Your wedding invitations are scented?""It's meant to be lavender.""No, Dex - it's money. It smells of money.

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.