Meaning Quotes

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

~ Muhammad Ali

The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

~ Carl Jung

We have known Hillary Clinton both professionally and personally for close to 20 years, dating back to before President Bill Clinton's first trip to Africa in 1998 - a trip that they both acknowledge changed their lives and gave considerable meaning to their post-White House years and to the activities of the Clinton Foundation.

~ Valerie Plame

In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of the world. That makes it hard to find meaning in education.

~ David Christian

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

~ Herbie Hancock

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

~ Phillips Brooks

Every new car, you open the door, and you look at all those internal mellifluous swoopy bits, and they have no meaning.

~ Jonathan Ive

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

~ Karl Marx

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

~ Joseph Campbell

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

~ Michael Jackson

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

~ Feist

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon... what it means to you.

~ Christopher Mccandless

All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

~ Christopher Mccandless

Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit.

~ Amy Adams

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

~ Jacques Audiard

Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.

~ Billy Collins

I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.

~ Margaret Atwood

The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone.

~ Edward Hirsch

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

~ A. E. Housman

Conversations with sisters can spark extremes of anger or extremes of love. Everything said between sisters carries meaning not only from what was just said but from all the conversations that came before - and 'before' can span a lifetime. The layers of meaning combine profound connection with equally profound competition.

~ Deborah Tannen

Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.

~ Antonin Scalia

If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.

~ Jerry Falwell

I'm a bachelor in the old sense of the word, meaning I flirt, I have very many close relationships, but then I come home and like to read my book.

~ William Ivey Long

The question is not, will there be difficulties and threats to our existence, but how will we deal with them and what can we learn from them. How can they become blessings to society, as a life threatening disease is to an individual, by teaching us about the meaning of our life and existence?

~ Bernie Siegel

The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.

~ Pamela Anderson

There is no quick fix for illegal immigration. But only when we achieve better control of our borders and better respect for our immigration laws can we give meaning to the discussion we need to have over reforming the numbers, categories, and procedures for legal immigration into the United States.

~ Jan C. Ting