Top 1200 Meaningless Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I've been on teams that never made it to the playoffs. It wasn't fun playing meaningless football.

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.

The network by itself is meaningless. Only the people were ever meaningful.

What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question.

Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.

The BAFTA is both absolutely fantastic and sort of meaningless at the same time.

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

What meaning has such meditation? There is no meaning; there is no utility. But in that meditation there is a movement of great ecstasy which is not to be confounded with pleasure. It is this ecstasy which gives to the eye, to the brain and to the heart, the quality of innocency. Without seeing life as something totally new, it is a routine, a boredom, a meaningless affair. So meditation is of the greatest importance. It opens the door to the incalculable, to the measureless.

To try to convey literally what the Garden of Eden was like is meaningless. What matters is its symbolic function.

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent

If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become.

"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.

Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of life, or else they are just clever word-games, in which one view wins today, and tomorrow the opposite view. Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.

Trying to work out where you find meaning and sense in a meaningless world is my obsession.

I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.

I think you only have to pull stunts if the content of your music is meaningless.

I'm a Sagittarius, born in the year of the rat, all of which is basically meaningless to me.

The crowds themselves are meaningless. The thing that counts is what happens to the hearts of the people.

I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

If you throw money around like confetti, it just becomes shallow and meaningless.

To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is all that matters in life; the rest is men and women, imagined loves and factitious vanities, the wiles of our digestion and forgetfulness, people squirming — like worms when a rock is lifted — under the huge abstract boulder of the meaningless blue sky.

My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

I understand how a first impression is often just that: a quick snapshot that, on its own merit, is meaningless.

The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

That's one way to overcome criticism: tank so hard that failing becomes glorious and meaningless.

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.

A lot of people use the phrase 'underage violence,' which, to me, is meaningless.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?

The vast majority of all consequences, especially in 21st century America, are completely meaningless bullshit.

Fascism is meaningless because it's so completely indefinable, so where does the 'anti' come into the equation?

Problematic' is one of these meaningless jargon words that people on the internet outrage circles throw at one another.

They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be couriers. Therefore there are only couriers who hurry about the world, shouting to each other - since there are no kings - messages that have become meaningless. They would like to put an end to this miserable life of theirs but they dare not because of their oaths of service.

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless. If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.

It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that nothing is better than anything else, and that all things are in themselves equally meaningless. Except for the fragments of faith (in progress, in compassion, in conscience, in hope) to which it still clings, illegitimately, such a culture teaches every one of its children that life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.

When you break an agreement in a relationship, you must offer an amendment first, or it is meaningless.

Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.

Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter...with alliteration, no less!

If you aim to be controversial for the sake of it you'd end up with a very thin and meaningless show.

History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will be the same wall between my soul's holy of holies and other people, even my wife, I'll accuse her in the same way of my own fear and then regret it, I'll fail in the same way to understand with my reason why I pray, and yet I will pray--but my life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it!

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.

African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.

Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive.

Without the interpretation of the universe by man to the glory of God the whole world would be meaningless

The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.

Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty.

You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.