Top 1200 Different Meaning Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Man creates what he is, man creates himself. The meaning has to be created. You have to sing your meaning, you have to dance your meaning, you have to paint your meaning, you have to live it. Through living, it will arise; through dancing, it will start penetrating your being. Through singing, it will come to you. It is not like a rock just lying there to be found, it has to bloom in your being.

In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning a bogus or dangerous religion).

If there are older black people in the audience that I can see I will not say the n-word. I know they grew up with a different meaning.

The concept of a 'just' or 'fair' price is devoid of any scientific meaning; it is a disguise for wishes, a striving for a state of affairs different from reality.

A fact was the hard outer cover of meaning, and meaning was the soft living stuff inside a fact. Fact and meaning were the driving cogs of living. If the gear of fact drove the gear of meaning, then they revolved in opposite directions, but put the gear of fantasy between the two and they both revolved in the same direction. Fantasy was and is important; it leads to heaven knows where, but follow it and see. Sometimes it pays off.

Contemporary poetry ... tries to transform the sign back into meaning: its ideal, ultimately, would be to reach not the meaning of words, but the meaning of things themselves. This is why it clouds the language, increases as much as it can the abstractness of the concept and the arbitrariness of the sign and stretches to the limit the link between signifier and signified.

I felt like, you know, my presence in the world of cinema had a different meaning than Meryl Streep... There was an impact that was made, but it wasn't the usual.

We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.

By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life.

My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agree-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one has only little mouth noises

But there's the rub. The present can never deliver one thing: meaning. The way of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning--the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life--a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them.

There is not built-in meaning to anything, we are free to add any meaning we choose to give it.

The sticker has no meaning, but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning.

What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.

I draw things on the paper very freely but believing there is meaning to them already. There is already meaning in the colors, I don't need to be guided by words. I draw them and the meaning comes after. Every time we would start a new sequence we would change everything.

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

When you have a lot of people playing different characters, you need to do justice to every character and bring meaning to their presence in the script.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning.

Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning.

As a fan of pop music myself, I hate discovering that a favourite track has a completely different meaning from the one I thought.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

The new "ambiguity" means, in a way adjudged favorable to literary, poetic, intellectually and psychologically well-devised and praiseworthily executed linguistic performance, uncertainty of meaning, or difficulty for the interpreter in identifying just what the meaning in question is: it means the old meanings of ambiguity with a difference. It means uncertainty of meaning (of a word or combination of words) purposefully incorporated in a literary composition for the attainment of the utmost possible variety of meaning-play compressible within the verbal limits of the composition.

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field. That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning. This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it. That life is the world. That my will penetrates the world. That my will is good or evil. Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God. And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

A beautiful woman in our culture, and I would like to say, you know, this was different in 1962, but it still exists today - I know a lot of these women -treats different in a different way; meaning that if you're a beautiful woman, you're incredibly powerful within our culture. The world operates differently for you. Then, at a moment in time, and it has nothing to do with you, it's like the carpet is just ripped out from under you, and the way that you've operated in the world no longer works.

The complexity embedded in the different levels of meaning that go along with the words "I love you" ought to be a whole mindfuck of a video game

Great companies make meaning. A company has a name, but its people give it meaning.

I am not sure one is capable of reflecting absurdity without having a strong sense of meaning. Absurdity makes sense only against a meaningful background. It is the deeper meaning that is shedding light on the absurdity. There must be a vanish point, a metaphysical horizon if you will where absurdity and meaning merge.

Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place.

Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

People wonder why there seems to be no meaning in life. Meaning does not exist a priori. There is no meaning existing in life; one has to create it. Only if you create it will you discover it. It has to be invented first. It is not lying there like a rock, it has to be created like a song. It is not a thing, it is significance that you bring through your consciousness.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.

As an artist I have always felt that my task is not to create meaning but to charge the air so that meaning can occur.

What has interested me all along is not the pronouncement of meaning but pointing toward the way meaning is formed.

You dare your Yes - and experience a meaning...You repeat your Yes - and all things acquire a meaning...When everything has a meaning, how can you live anything but a YES.

And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.

I'm not sure what 'cheeky' means. I hear it used so much and in so many different ways, I can't identify the real meaning of it.

There is no use in one person attempting to tell another what the meaning of life is. It involves too intimate an awareness. A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very discovering of it. It is an ongoing experience of growth that involves a deepening contact with reality. To speak as though it were an objective knowledge, like the date of the war of 1812, misses the point altogether. The meaning of life is indeed objective when it is reached, but the way to it is by a path of subjectivities. . . . The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person.

The meaning of freedom is in the U.S. Constitution. Republicans want to live by the document's original meaning.

The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.

Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning.

More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying.

Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

There is a close connection between art and religion in the sense that both are concerned about questions of meaning - if not about the meaning of existence generally, then certainly about the meaning of one's individual life and how a person relates to his or her total community/environment.

To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.

Soon he'll come in again and kiss me, but differently. He'll be different and so I'll be different. It'll be different. I thought, 'It'll be different, different. It must be different.

Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.