Top 1200 Well-Meaning Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't 'sail' anyway. Send it back for further thought.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.

Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.

An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.

maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it

I don't want to put meaning on what I do because I don't know what it is.

Dancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of sense are sometimes obliged to conform; and then they should be able to do it well. And though I would not have you a dancer, yet, when you do dance, I would have you dance well, as I would have you do everything you do well.

Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.

An eye-opening moment in my life, a very defining moment, was the first time I met Susan Sarandon [before shooting Thelma & Louise]. We were going to meet, just Ridley [Scott] and Susan and I, to go through the script and see if we had any thoughts or ideas. I was reading the script, and in the most girly way possible, meaning that if it was a line that could change or something different I'd like to see, I would think about each one and say, "Well, this one can wait till the set because I don't want to bring up too many things."

The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.

I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart. Hope is the feeling that life and work have a meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. Life without hope is an empty, boring, and useless life. I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me. I am thankful to God for this gift. It is as big as life itself.

I don't think I even understand the full meaning of athletics.

Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they're of my own creation, as well - and they're just as annoying. It's not only other people's ear worms that bug me, it's my own, as well.

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.

Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that can be taught. There is no standard way of doing it, just as there is no means of telling, while you're doing it, whether you're doing it well or badly. And merely because you've done it well once doesn't mean you can do it well again.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.

Every little movement has a meaning of its own.

Live with fewer things that have greater meaning.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

I feel like I put pressure on myself to perform well and to play well and to do well. That's what I expect of myself. It's not always going to happen, but I can certainly sort of put myself in the position where I can get the best out of myself.

Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it.

There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

Algebra is rich in structure but weak in meaning.

Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning.

First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and trembling. We can help one another to find the meaning of life no doubt. But in the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. You cannot tell me who I am and I cannot tell you who you are. If you do not know your own identity, who is going to identify you?

Love: A term which has no meaning if defined.

Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.

I live in the sky as a pilot, so it has great meaning to me.

I think, questions about what it means to respect nature become very important because just as in human society, for example, part of what it is for me to live a good life as a human being in a human society is to have respect for others around me. Now, that respect, to some extent, can be thought of as being grounded in the rights and interest of others but it also has to do with the stance that I take in the world and what it is that provides meaning and significance in my own life and I think there are similar ideas of respect for nature that apply as well.

Jeb Bush says he`s not a good - why would he admit that? I watched him. I`m not an entertainer. He goes, I`m not a good talker. I don`t speak well. I don`t debate well. I don`t do anything well. But you should vote for me. That`s Jeb Bush.

The beauty of the moonlight has no meaning for the bats and for the unfeeling minds!

I can say is our point of reference - and I think that does make us different from some bands and similar to other bands too. But it's just that spirit - it's sort of like a punk spirit - but it's not punk meaning or as in like "I'm here and I'm going to get thrashy and bloody on-stage" - but, we're not going to listen to the rules and the roles already set in place. We just want to make music that is heartfelt and feels good and sounds good to our ears, and hopefully to many other's ears as well.

...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.

It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.

If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.

Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

What's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome?

To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.

Well I think we can't avoid covering the news and when the president says something like that you're the enemy of the people, I think I'm well within my right to stand up and say this is well within my lane as a journalist and as an American to say that that's not appropriate.

A craft can only have meaning when it serves a spiritual way.

All the stuff that I wear has some type of meaning.

you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!

I use improvisation as a writing tool to help produce material that goes into a script, but a well-crafted script shouldn't sound scripted, and oftentimes people confuse something that looks like improvisation for what is actually a very well-written script that is well-acted.

If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.

What can be greater to life than to understand its meaning.

Attraversiamo (meaning "Lets cross over" in Italian)

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

A lack of direction and meaning can leave you empty.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.