Quotes About Meaning

I guess most of 'em mean well.' 'Someday you can build a boat from meaning well and see how floats.' 'Tried that. Sank with me on it.

Secrets, power. It's all a metaphor.

Didn't seem likely, but what's the point of likely fantasies?

The elves knew the true names of these rivers,' said Skifr, who'd made a kind of bed among the cargo to drape herself on. 'We call them Divine and Denied because those are as close as our clumsy human tongues can come.

It's a crime, when you think about how little time we get, that a man should ever be bored. When you're lying on your deathbed, I expect you regret those weeks wasted more than your worst mistakes.

If you have to tell someone you are furious, and then, furthermore, that you mean it, your fury has failed to achieve its desired effect.

Fuck," he whispered. "Aye," said Shivers. Craw almost took a tumble on the wet grass. 'Til he remembered there was an awful lot a man could be saying fuck about. That's the beauty of the word. It can mean just about anything, depending on how things stand.

If she knew about the luggage, she was trouble. And Fallow had no sense of humour about his cock, to which none of the ointments had made the slightest difference.

That got him thinking about his life. It seemed a bitter, pointless sort of a life now.

She leaned a little closer to whisper it. "Primrose Heights. Calling a thing a different thing don't make it a different thing, now does it?" "Wouldn't know," croaked Broad, who beat men for a living and called it labour relations, "I'm no philosopher.

I never did a thing to deserve loyalty like that.' 'Sometimes loyalty's an excuse for something else.

The gods are angry," muttered Nothing, frowning. "When aren't they?" said Yarvi.

Etherer," said Practical Frost.

Pesach without children is like a cantor without a song, like an actor without any lines, or a storyteller without an audience.

Because of the size of our enormous forebrain, the privilege of being a human being is that we can make thought more real than anything else—and that's how the placebo works. To see how the process unfolds, it's vital to examine and review three key elements: conditioning, expectation, and meaning. As you'll see, these three concepts all seem to work together in orchestrating the placebo response. I

The things that were once so important to me really no longer mattered. And I started asking big questions like "Who am I?"; "What is the meaning of this life?"; "What am I doing here?"; "What's my purpose?"; and "What or who is God?

Beta is our everyday waking state. When we're in beta, the thinking brain, or neocortex, is processing all of the incoming sensory data and creating meaning between our outer and inner worlds.

condicionamiento, las expectativas y el significado.

Love requires Context.

It seemed to her sometimes that this was the only fight that mattered: the struggle to take the world's chaos and make it mean something, to put it to words.

sin, which was another word for 'live.

Thirty years of overlapping graffiti covered the walls. The individual messages were mostly incoherent, but then perhaps the individual messages were of no importance. It seemed to Ig that all such messages were the same at heart: I Am; I Was; I Want to Be.

Does your license plate mean something?" Bing asked. "En-o-ess-four-a-two?" "Nosferatu," the man Charlie Manx said. "Nosfer-what-who?" Manx said, "It is one of my little jokes. My first wife once accused me of being a Nosferatu. She did not use that exact word, but close enough.

Some Arab invented the idea of the number zero," I said. "Isn't that weird? Someone had to think zero up."   Because it isn't obvious—that nothing can be something. That something which can't be measured or seen could still exist and have meaning. Same with the soul, when you think about it.