Quotes About Meaning

History is the nothing people write about a nothing.

Eso le hacía a uno pensar; porque pensar era algo valioso que lograba resultados...

Hayat?n belli bir düzeni yoktur, Summers. Edebiyat?n kusuru da ona bir düzen vermeye kalkmas?d?r.

Oynamak hoÅŸtu ve yaÅŸamlar? öylesine dopdoluydu ki, umuda gerek duymuyorlar, umudun ne olduÄŸunu unutuyorlard? o s?rada.

What's in a book is not what the author put into it, it's what the reader gets out of it.

I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.

But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.

The first morning after Westley's departure, Buttercup thought she was entitled to do nothing more than sit around moping and feeling sorry for herself. After all, the love of her life had fled, life had no meaning, how could you face the future, et cetera, et cetera.

I understand everything," he said. "You understand nothing, but it really doesn't matter, since what you mean is, you're glad to see me, just as I'm glad to see you because no more loneliness." "That's what I mean," said Fezzik.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. [ Inigo Montoya ]

Death of the heart,' the subtitle says, Whose death? And even more important maybe, whose heart?

The Serpent, to my interpretation, was pain.

Fezzik reached the top of the wall and started carefully climbing down the other side. I understand everything, he said. You understand nothing, but it really doesn't matter, since what you mean is, you're glad to see me, just as I'm glad to see you because no more loneliness. That's what I mean, said Fezzik.

He'll never catch up!" the Sicilian cried. "Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word!" the Spaniard snapped. "I don't think it means what you think it does.

You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

You mean you'll forgive me completely for saving your life if I completely forgive you for saving mine? You're my friend, my only one. Pathetic, that's what we are, Inigo said. Athletic.

Chief Justice Hughes once said that he tried to write his opinions clearly and logically, but if he needed the fifth vote of a colleague who insisted on putting in a paragraph that did not "belong," in it went, and he let the law reviews figure out what it meant.

All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.

Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.

A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms; but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description.

The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

It never occurs to most of us .. that the question 'what is the truth' is no real question (being irrelative to all conditions) and that the whole notion of the truth is an abstraction from the fact of truths in the plural, a mere useful summarizing phrase like the Latin language or the Law.