#meaning

I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#because #daughter #going #had #i

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals. ↗

— Plato

#must #particulars #universals

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#different #different meaning #differently #effects #meaning

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#awarded #been #belong #community #given

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#also #contrary #deprivation #expression #feeling

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning. ↗

— Katy Perry

#girl #i #meaning #quirky #songs

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#chance #come #contingency #happens #historical

What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#any #failed #government #lib #meaningful

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#dark #eyes #found #just #know

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#meaning #natural #natural order #order #organ