Quotes About Meaning

To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.

Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.

We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers!

Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?" "The same thing you do when you don't have forever." He smiled wanly. "Live.

The only time I penetrated Tony Blair's defenses over Iraq was by keeping eye contact while telling him he never seemed to by sorry

I want somebody who sees the pointlessness and still keeps their purpose in mind; I want somebody who has a tortured soul ...some of the time

I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time.

You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.

Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?

I just sing the song and I sing it with conviction, meaning and I get into the mood of every song I do no matter how much time I have in between.

Today we continue a never ending journey to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time.

The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens' vision are esthetically often a virtue.

Hundreds of passages point to a time of judgment for every person who has ever lived-none will escape. If you took all the references to judgment out of the Bible, you would have little Bible left.

Know what you love and do what you love. If you don't do what you love, you're just wasting your time.

Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.

Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land.

Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we need to move the very stars to pity.

As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.

Even in the most market-obsessed society, we're still spending half of our time on something other than just getting cash.

We may get a paycheck, but over time what we sense is the dying of our souls.

When we spend time in silence, we can hear the voice of our soul whispering its sacred message and encouraging us to make choices that bring us more happiness, health, love, meaning, and peace.

The teenage years are years of great chaos and confusion in your lives, but also a time of seeking a deeper meaning.

You're going to die. That's going to happen. What matters is what you do with your time before you get flushed out.

Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I gave a song recital.