Quotes of: True-meaning Keyword

What is Zen? Zen means doing anything perfectly, making mistakes perfectly, being defeated perfectly, hesitating perfectly, doing anything perfectly or imperfectly, perfectly. What is the meaning of this perfectly? How does it differ from perfectly? ...

Love

I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

The Curse of Chalion

We can’t worry about meaning. Ari proposed to us that meaning is a consumer item. Some people manufacture it through religion, philosophy, nationhood, politics, and some people buy it. But an artist is not a manufacturer.

Consumed

I was not being mean. Mean was her mother giving her the name Bernice Woodward. Ryals, R.K.. Cursed (The Thorne Trilogy Book 1) (Kindle Locations 66-67). . Kindle Edition.

Cursed

Does that mean you agree?" He groaned. "I think it means you crushed my spirit and beat me down." "Fantastic.

City of Lost Souls

Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean.

Catch-22

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

The Education of Henry Adams

who would expect less?" she said. " You're a Wiggin." " Whatever that means." He said. " It means that you are going to make a difference in the world.

Ender's Game

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

The Four Purposes of Life: Finding Meaning and Direction in a Changing World

Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking.

The God Delusion

To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.

The Glass Bead Game

Self-governing cultures both inspire alignment and eject elements that don't fit in.

How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything... in Business

Words simply mean what people think they mean when they say them.

How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

The first step to Happiness is deciding exactly what kind of life you want. That kinda comes from experience.

HOW TO SAY NO TO ANYTHING AND MEAN IT

When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified.

Brooklyn Noir

Dependence on the Lord is wisdom and self-reliance is foolishness. But dependence on the Lord does not mean laziness, it means prayerful action and patient perseverance...

Because I Love You

Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken ...

Jerry Saltz

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

Barbara Kruger

1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.

Leon Askin

I made her late, so she made me dinner. And by late I mean pregnant. And by dinner I mean marry her.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense