Quotes About Meaning

I was very lucky to grow up in a household that really valued storytelling and didn't find it frivolous.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.

I was a big party guy in my twenties, and kind of a playboy as well. I adopted a lot of values and goals that were fairly superficial and, in many cases, self-destructive. They looked cool and sounded sexy on the surface, but underneath, there was no real meaning going on, just a lot of escapism.

Many companies claim they have core values, but typically what they're referring to are generic beliefs: having integrity, making a profit, responding to customers and so on. These values only have meaning when they're defined in terms of how people behave and are ranked to set priorities.

O Lord God," she breathed fervently, "may I be able to serve as you served when you were with us. I will joyfully lend my hands, my heart to the task before me, in your name. Strengthen me to serve. Give wisdom. Supply the means to meet the needs. Make me a blessing to all whom I touch, I pray with thanksgiving.

Arithon; the word brought Asandir to sharp attention. Whoever had named this prince had known what they were about, for the Paravian root of meaning was 'forger', not of metals, but of destiny.

I always listen, the duke said, annoyed. Just hang your silly, unnatural notion, that hearing means following your orders.

New signs were created by combining old signs to produce new meanings: for example, the sign for head was combined with the sign for bread in order to produce a sign signifying eat.

signs , , and to represent the syllables yu, sa, and na, respectively.

Most whites do not have a racial identity, but they would do well to understand what race means for others. They should also ponder the consequences of being the only group for whom such an identity is forbidden and who are permitted no aspirations as a group.

I NOW KNOW WHAT JOE MEANT WHEN HE ALWAYS SAID THAT HIS PARENTS WOULD'VE LOVED ME.

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

I was born on a Thursday, hence the name. My brother was born on a Monday and they called him Anton--go figure. My mother was called Wednesday, but was born on a Sunday--I don't know why--and my father had no name at all--his identity and existence had been scrubbed by the ChronoGuard after he went rogue. To all intents and purposes he didn't exist at all. It didn't matter. He was always Dad to me...

The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.

He also thought that 'abbreviation' was too long for its meaning, that 'monosyllabic' should have one syllable, 'dyslexic' should be renamed 'O' and 'unspeakable' should be respelt 'unsfzpxkable.

Good, said Moobin. Any questions? Yes, said Tiger. Why do inflammable and flammable mean the same thing? Sorry, I should rephrase that: Any questions relating to the job at hand? There weren't. Well, said Moobin with finality, there it is, then. Rest well.

All those words,' she whispered, 'so diligently placed together, and so pointlessly torn apart.

Lady Mawgon, please don't think me insensitive, but any attempt to reanimate Mr. Pusskins on the back of the Dibble Storage Coils hacking enchantment might be looked on disfavourably by the other wizards." Her eyes narrowed and she gave me one of those stares that seem to hit the back of my skull like a dozen hot needles. "None of you have an idea what Mr. Pusskins meant to me.

Our position as the policing agency within fiction gave us licensed access to abstract technology. One blast from the eraserhead in Bradshaw's rifle and the Minotaur would be reduced to the building blocks of his fictional existence: text and a bluish mist—all that is left when the bonds that link text to meaning are severed.

I had learned from my own father's death many years ago that the end of one's life and dying are two very different things indeed, and took solace in that.

Take the first had had and that that in the book by way of example, explained Lady Cavendish. You would have thought that that first had had had had good occasion to be seen as had , had you not? Had had had approval but had had had not; equally it is true to say that that that that had had approval but that that other that that had not.

más tarde rebajadas a la categoría del ornamento ideológico por el militante gordezuelo, afeminado, incompetente, astuto y conservador que las usurpó, acabarían convertidas en a parafernalia cada vez más podrida y huérfana de significado con la que un puñado de patanes luchó durante cuarenta años de pesadumbre para justificar su regimen de mierda.

A veces tengo la impresión de que escribo para entender la vida