Meaning Quotes

• It is said that we live, move and have our being in God. We find this concept expressed often in the Koran, not in those words of course, but just as beautifully and more tersely... when we realize the meaning of this saying, we are already preparing ourselves for the gift of the power of direct spiritual experience.

  

  Aga Khan III
  • Meaning
  • Concept
  • Koran

• If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Meaning
  • Knew

• It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Loved
  • Meaning
  • Letters

• Fashion is something you attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction the meaning of it is born. Without the wearing of it, it has no meaning, unlike a piece of art. It is fashion because people want to buy it now, because they want to wear it now, today. Fashion is only the right now.

  

  Rei Kawakubo
  • Fashion
  • Right
  • Wear

• When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power or virtue. It is something within a person, and it is enhanced by following the Tao, or 'that from which nothing can deviate'.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • Claim
  • Tao

• Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called jazz, there is a stepping-stone to all of these.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Happy
  • Loved
  • Jazz

• The meaning of the world does not reside in the world.

  

  Apostolos Doxiadis
  • World
  • Meaning
  • Reside

• I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Meaning
  • Images
  • Painted

• The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Meaning
  • Speech
  • Motive

• I've always worked to find really deep meaning of song and also at the same time having it covered in sugar, so it can be taken two or three different ways.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Meaning
  • Sugar
  • Different Way

• The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Earth
  • Meaning
  • Superman

• What is an Extraordinary Life? A life of meaning, a magnificent life, a life of joy, happiness, love, passion, success, and fulfillment. Life experienced on your terms.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Joy

• It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Meaning
  • Not Believe
  • Committees

• When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.

  

  Ernest Bramah
  • Book
  • Meaning
  • Dates

• Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • People
  • Word
  • Ridiculous

• You don't always get lucky enough to have songs that can breathe and shift meaning. But every once in a while you open up a window and something passes through. It's really nice for me when I discover those songs in my catalogue. It's one of the reasons I try not to get too specific about what my songs mean.

  

  Denison Witmer
  • Enough
  • Songs
  • Window

• To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not something to be gauged in a poll or located in a focus group. No adviser can spin it. No historian can backdate it. For, in the age old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Courage
  • Lose
  • Popularity

• All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • My Life
  • Strange
  • I Believed

• We surrendered rather easily to yet another romantic notion: that meaning is to be found only in misery.

  

  Elizabeth Samet
  • Meaning
  • Surrendered
  • Romantic notions

• There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Meaning
  • Concept
  • Excitation

• To the garden of the world anew descending, Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding, The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being, Curious here behold my resurrection after slumber, The revolving cycles in their wide sweep having brought me again, amorous, mature, all beautiful to me, all wondrous, My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays through them, for reasons, most wondrous, Existing I peer and penetrate still, Content with the present, content with the past, By my side or back of me Eve following, Or in front, and I following her just the same.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Love
  • Fire
  • Garden

• People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Meaning
  • Disease

• Charisma defined As usual, the Greeks had a word for it. Charisma originated with an ancient Greek word meaning ‘gift’. The early Christians later used it to describe ‘gifts from God that allowed receivers to carry out extraordinary feats such as healing and prophesy.

  

  Andrew Leigh
  • Meaning
  • Charisma
  • Feats

• The meaning lies in the appropriation.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Lies
  • Meaning
  • Appropriation

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