Quotes About Meaning

Not caring for their lives' is it? Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time.

A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.

Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

My big concern is me and what do I do now until the time of my death. That is valid. That is useful. That is beautiful. That is creative.

Every memorial in its time has a different goal.

From the first time you laughed with me, all those months, and all those stories," Joe said quietly. "They were all you, to me. All of them were you.

You have stopped the arrow of time... There's no meaning to this rhyme... Because my song will never mean as much as the one.. He once sang.. For you, yes, you.

When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories!

I think [Donald Trump's] incentives are not aligned with the Republican Party. I mean, they are part of the time, but they're not all of the time.

I think Louisville will be fired up for this game. They might be in revenge mode. But, this time of the year records, don't mean much. Anything can happen.

Well, I Am... I Said was a very difficult song, very difficult because I really had to spend a lot of time thinking about what I was before the song was written.

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug (Mark Twain)

The first most important day of you life is the day you were born. The second is when you discover why.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between the lightening and the lightening bug.

Some German words are so long that they have a perspective.

The difference between the ALMOST right word and the RIGHT word is really quite a large matter. It's the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

It's an awful snug place for orgies. What orgies? I dono. But robbers always have orgies, and of course we've got to have them, too.