Quotes About Meaning

Words from the Heart are different then words from the brain, the meaning is totally different but our ears don't hear it, but the future will tell it to us, be positive and have Patience.

La palabra golpea el aire y el espíritu, y obra sobre los sentidos y sobre el alma.

Time is there for a purpose, to keep things in order. Once you change chronology you change history. The past could eat up the present . . .

If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence, there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.—Confucius

It is well to remind ourselves, from time to time, that Ethics is but another word for righteousness, that for which many men and women of every generation have hungered and thirsted, and without which life becomes meaningless.

It is well to remind ourselves, from time to time, that "Ethics" is but another word for "righteousness," that for which many men and women of every generation have hungered and thirsted, and without which life becomes meaningless.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning

To walk three miles, or four miles, or five miles, or whatever it is, above her ankles in dirt, and alone, quite alone! What could she mean by it? It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum.

I detest jargon of every kind, and sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning. ~ Marianne Dashwood

That is a compliment which gives me no pleasure.

La vanité et l'orgueil sont choses différentes, bien qu'on emploie souvent ces deux mots l'un pour l'autre ; on peut être orgueilleux sans être vaniteux. L'orgueil se rapporte plus à l'opinion que nous avons de nous-mêmes, la vanité à celle que nous voudrions que les autres aient de nous.

No, I did not promise. I only smirked and bowed, and said the word "happy." There was no promise.

Creo [...] que todo hombre debe trabajar en alguna cosa. El dinero en sí no tiene importancia ni finalidad algunas; lo importante es emplear dignamente el tiempo.

What can be the meaning of that emphatic exclamation? cried he. Do you consider the forms of introduction, and the stress that is laid on them, as nonsense? I cannot quite agree with you there. What say you, Mary? For you are a young lady of deep reflection, I know, and read great books and make extracts.

on my part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

she read on; but every line proved

Esto es algo más que el descubrimiento de un documento, es el descubrimiento de una inspiración.

You speak too plain. She must understand you.' 'I hope she does. I would have her understand me. I am not in the least ashamed of my meaning.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow.

This," said she, "is nearly the sense, or rather the meaning of the words, for certainly the sense of an Italian love-song must not be talked of,—but it is as nearly the meaning as I can give; for I do not pretend to understand the language. I am a very poor Italian scholar.

though it is Charlotte Lucas. You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger security for happiness." "I must think your language too strong