Quotes About Meaning

I know you think you understand what you thought I said , but I'm not sure realized that what you heard isn't what I meant

I know you think you understand what you thought I said , but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard isn't what I meant

I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Just as one will not get far on the road to happiness by predefining the characteristics of happiness and then going to look for them, we will not grasp what it means to be the church in our time by beginning with church questions, even if they are questions about the church's health, effectiveness, or its natural development!

What is God up to in our neighborhoods and communities? How do we join with what God is doing in these places? Church questions are a subset of these far more important questions.

T. S. Eliot wrote almost a century ago about a phenomenon that he believed to be the product of the nineteenth century: "When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when everyone knows a little about a great many things, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about or not.

It's what you're reading that matters, and how you're reading it, not the speed with which you're getting through it. Reading is supposed to be about the encounter with other minds, not an opportunity to return to the endlessly appealing subject of Me.

Privately held," Vail said. "Meaning we don't know much about their operations. Their financing, investors, the people with skin in the game.

Death is the meaning of life, the race against oblivion; man being the only animal who is conscious that he will one day die; there lies the seed of self-destruction, greed for more, even if only to be remembered a short time longer than others, as if it mattered to the other walking dead.

It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.

Quote is a verb. Quotation is the noun.

THE HEBREW WORD for "truth" is composed of the three letters that are the first, middle, and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The three Hebrew letters that spell "falsehood" stand next to one another. This tells us that truth creates a firm foundation, like the three legs of a stool, while falsehood is unstable because it stands on a narrow base.

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

I suggested we name one of the children Silence," said Dion, "a greatly underrated virtue.

Referring to my notes, I said, "When you

Everything's dead, but good, because it's dead before coming alive, not dead after being alive. That's how I look at it.

We die, he said. We die, I said. And knowing this how do we live? Knowing this, we live. We live.

Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

Since their playing lacked nuance, they deprived themselves of speech—for nuance, after all, is where meaningful speech resides. Without it, the language of music is ineluctably returned to its postnatal beginnings, where the only sounds to be heard are the inarticulate cries of an infant.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.