David Steindl-Rast Quotes
Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.David Steindl-Rast
Quotes to Explore
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In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
Utada Hikaru -
The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
Otto Rank -
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?
Saint Augustine -
Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.
Gary Bettman -
Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
Viktor E. Frankl -
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. Wells
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.
Zoe McLellan -
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.
Gail Carriger -
Tagliatelle comes from the word tagliare, meaning 'to cut.' Tagliolini are simply thinly cut tagliatelle.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
Wallace Stevens -
It's funny: sometimes with 'Spaced,' people would try and read too much into something I'd done, with the references meaning something more than they do.
Edgar Wright
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I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.
Ioan Gruffudd -
The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
Fiona Shaw -
Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
Ada Cambridge -
No experience is ever wasted. Everything has meaning.
Oprah Winfrey -
I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.
Oscar Wilde -
Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.
Jacques Lacan
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You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.
Jane Austen -
It was first love. There's no love like that. I don't wish it on a soul. I don't hate anyone enough.
Carol Grace -
If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
Oliver Kahn -
Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.
David Steindl-Rast