Top 1200 Mans Search For Meaning Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

Innovation is the never-ending search for better solutions

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity.

Do not search for the truth; Only cease to cherish opinions.

The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.

A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.

The search for peace is one of the ultimate quests of the human soul.

The new advocates of ID [Intelligent Design] ask that their ideas be judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how well ID stacks up as a scientific alternative to Darwinism. To gauge how well ID is doing as a platform for scientific research, I logged into the best database of the biological literature. A search for keyword ''evolution'' yielded 24,000 hits in the last decade. A search for ''intelligent design'' yielded not a single piece of research. Evolution by natural selection remains the basis of every successful biological research program.

Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the free adaptation that sacrifices detail to meaning, the strict crib that sacrifices meaning to exactitude. The poet moves from life to language, the translator moves from language to life; both, like the immigrant, try to identify the invisible, what's between the lines, the mysterious implications.

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

Google demotes search results that don't get clicked on.

The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love.

I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.

The truly monumental can only come about by means of the most exact and refined relation between parts. Since each thing carries both a meaning of its own and an associated meaning in relation to something else - its essential value is relative. We speak of the mood we experience when looking at a landscape. This mood results from the relation of certain things rather than from their separate actualities. This is because objects do not in themselves possess the total effect they give when interrelated.

Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.

The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "meaning," they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day.

People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.

Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

The fear and the search for security have turned the world into a horrific hell.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

As a teenager I was severely, cripplingly dramatic and in search of self.

I thought that was actually kind of boring, that search for perfection.

The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.

I search for thrill in my characters because I am a boring person.'

Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.

Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy

Education in democracy must be carried on within the Party so that members can understand the meaning of democratic life, the meaning of the relationship between democracy and centralism, and the way in which democratic centralism should be put into practice. Only in this way can we really extend democracy within the Party and at the same time avoid ultra-democracy and the laissez-faire that destroys discipline.

Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for.

The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim.

The great documentary subjects find you, you don't really search for them.

We all had to search for more words to describe things.

I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.

Facts are neutral until human beings add their own meaning to those facts. People make their decisions based on what the facts mean to them, not on the facts themselves. The meaning they add to facts depends on their current story … facts are not terribly useful to influencing others. People don’t need new facts—they need a new story.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

When you're on the road a lot, you're in perpetual search of a good night's sleep.

I think the whole glue of Search Party' is this idea of victimhood.

Photography is essentially a personal matter - a search for inner truth.

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

The right to search for truth implies also a duty.

Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search.

When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.

I used to think things were the way they are for a reason, that there was some hidden meaning. I used to think that this meaning governed the way the world was. But it's an illusion to think that there are good and bad reasons. Grammar is a lie to make us think that what we say is connected by a logic that you'll find if you study it, a lie that gone on for centuries. Because I now know that life just lurches between stability and instability and doesn't obey any law.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

I was always in search of a perfect game and I never got it.

Have faith, Ed, all right?' I search the coffee mug, but there's none in there.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax.

In writing I search for believability, simplicity, and emotional impact.

The thing about a cavity search is this: it has nothing to do with the dentist.

When trying to locate something, search your mind first.

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

Search is essential to every service that Yahoo offers.

To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat grinder itself the war was a netherworld of horror from which escape seemed less and less likely as casualties mounted and the fighting dragged on and on. Time had no meaning, life had no meaning. The fierce struggle for survival in the abyss of Peleliu had eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all.