Arlene Goldbard Quotes
Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that gives them meaning.
Quotes to Explore
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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I'm not saving lives.
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.
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Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.
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I'm here to say all lives matter.
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The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
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The dog lives here, Pete. You're just visiting.
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In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.
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I miss the days when faith was discussed in public and not the most intimate details of our personal lives.
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If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.
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The meaning of the story is the story.
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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had.
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Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.
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The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.
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Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.
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Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that gives them meaning.
