Quotes About Meaning

C ést le pigeon, Joseph.

Most people have some purpose or other in their lives. Aristotle says that the end of every being is its greatest good. We all act in view of some good.

Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no other word tender enough to be your name?

So entire and unquestionable was this sense of the divine meaning in all nature granted to his soul that he could scarcely understand why it was in any way necessary that he should continue to live. Yet that was part of the divine purpose and he dared not question its use, he above all others who had sinned so deeply and so foully against the divine purpose.

postmodernism asserts the liberating insignificance of art

The post-modern novel is now conceding, if not its absurdity, then its limited durability.

Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curios of signs (please stoop), in this allaphbed! Can you rede (since We and Thou had it out already) its world? It is the same told of all. Many. Miscegenations on miscegenations. Tieckle. They lived und laughed ant loved end left. Forsin.

A form of speech: the lesser for the greater.

Father Bernard Vaughan's sermon first. Christ or Pilate? Christ, but don't keep us all night over it.

There was grace and mystery in her attitude as if she were a symbol of something.

Art has to reveal to us ideas, formless spiritual essences.

Ena milo melomon, frai is frau and swee is too, swee is two when swoo is free, ana mala woe is we!

The tiny space I occupy is so infinitely small in comparison with the rest of space, in which I am not, and which has nothing to do with me; and the period of time in which it is my lot to live is so petty beside the eternity in which I have not been, and shall not be… And

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My father, your son, was, is, a man who truly cherishes life. Yes, he is, Alice whispered. I hope he got it... from me.

Not yet, Shryne said, as if to himself Then you're his apprentice? His eyes darted right and left, searching for some means of escape. Is Sidious also in league with Emperor Palpatine? Vader fell silent for a moment, making up his mind about something. Lord Sidious is the Emperor.

Meaning and purpose are vital to all generations at work.24 People have never stuck around for very long when what they do is trivial and unimportant.

Even with commonly identified values, there may be little agreement on the meaning of values statements. The lesson here is that leaders must engage their constituents in a dialogue about values. A common understanding of values emerges from a process, not a pronouncement.

Essential in a concept of power is the role of purpose.

A man ain't got to stand in church every Sunday to do God's work.

Giving words to ideas was too dangerous in their world. When Poppa did give words to something, though, it was for a reason. It had weight.

You mean the nice little white man who sings? With the puppets?" "That's Mister Rogers's address. One forty-three. You know what one forty-three means?" "No, Soup." His stoic face folded into a smile. "I would tell you, but I don't wanna spoil it.

Alas, for all my knowledge and my skill, The world's mysterious meaning mocks me still, And yet I shan't persuade myself that I Must bow before a supernatural will.

There was something wonderful, though, in doing useless work. You could turn it into a sort of art.