#meaning

It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#come #does #follow #given #governed

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#different #get #owes #people #rules

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#hidden #meaning #world

Everything on the radio is crap...It's fast food for your ears. It doesn't make you think. It isn't even about anything - not anything real. Don't you think music should say something? ↗

— Hannah Harrington

#music #food

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. ↗

— George F. Kennan

#civilized #concept #generation #history #implies

The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#ancient #culture #games #investigate #just

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#life #life is a #meaning #want #you

We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#academy #based #better #decisions #enable

If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended. ↗

— John Cornyn

#american #american people #certainly #compulsory #congress

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#connection #holds #like #meaning #only