Meanings Quotes

In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is the art of pairing unique quotations with complementary images in order to express thought-provoking ideas, challenging concepts, profound sentiments'.

~ Alex Morritt

Seldom do we embrace a new idea, especially one of a religious nature.

~ Eli Of Kittim

the more pretty the face is , the more dirty past it has

~ Pratyush Singh

A fleeting second on someone's news feed,No dearth of meanings for those who read,Not my stories but 'tis what I think,I say I don't write poems, I just write dreams.

~ Sanhita Baruah

Definitions and meanings change all the time. Truth and reality are very volatile, indefinite, multi layered and sometimes very paradoxical. That’s why it is very fiddly to make a set definition for the phenomena of our daily life. ( Did not expect it would ever happen, there )

~ Erik Pevernagie

When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception. (Trompe le pied.)

~ Erik Pevernagie

It is not a person or situation that affects your life; it is the meaning you give to that person or situation, which influences your emotions and actions. Your choice is to change the meaning you gave it or to change your response, in order to create the outcome you want.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Meanings with no purpose are useful for meaningless debates on what the meaner meant. And that's what #politics is all about - misreading.

~ Will Advise

Espere in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: waiting and hoping. If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect, waiting represents time wasted”. Waiting needs a future. If not, time is condemned to be killed. In the event that we are lost in a gap of boredom and despair, we are driven back in a vacuum of senselessness and deadlocked in a point of nothingness. We are, so therefore, bound to watch the agony of time. (Waiting for a place behind the geraniums )

~ Erik Pevernagie

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

~ Haruki Murakami

The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.

~ Markus Zusak

Lord Vetinari in a meeting: “what people said was what they wanted him to hear. He paid a lot of attention to the spaces outside the words, though. That’s where the things were that they hoped he didn’t know and didn’t want him to find out.

~ Terry Pratchett

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

~ Dean Koontz

Wake up to think of words… want to walk through pages of meanings, the links in assonance, alliteration, or just simple sense that moves the eye to leap that way to the next-door play of sound and resonance.

~ Initially No

Words cannot only be made... But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.

~ Randy Susan Meyers

It is commonplace to talk as if the world has meaning, to ask what is the meaning of a phrase, a gesture, a painting, a contract. Yet when thought about, it is clear that events are devoid of meaning until someone assigns it to them.

~ Dean C. Barnlund

Someone. Everyone. Anyone. No-one. One. One can't be everyone, but there isn't more than one everyone, at the same time. And at the same time no-one can't be someone, but anyone can be one, and also anyone can be a no-one. To sum up - everyone is someone, and any-one becomes a no-one if you divide the one part long enough by every part of every-one, so in conclusion, I have no idea what I’m talking about, basically.

~ Will Advise

Yes, this is what my senses alone have learned:—Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

~ Alberto Caeiro

You will never say goodbye to the past, until you understand why the flashbacks haunt you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning

~ Paulo Coelho

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.

~ W.e.b. Du Bois

When our internal reference point is the ego or self-image, we feel cut off from our source, and the uncertainty of events creates fear and doubt.

~ Deepak Chopra

So that made me happy but the part that really made me happy was that you wanted me to be happy. That's what Thank you means.

~ Margaret Atwood

It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.

~ Marty Rubin

A versifier arranges sounds, a poet arranges meaning in the sounds.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

~ George Santayana

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

~ Henry David Thoreau