#meaningful

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#black and white #clash #conflict #darkness #error

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#die #i #life #live #meaningful

I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer it without crying. I think, You're 56 years old, what did you do? You raised two good kids. What am I going to do now that is as meaningful as that? I don't know the answer yet. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#act #am #answer #crying #did

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#consumption #deeply #endless #filled #glut

A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways. ↗

— Joan Blades

#communities #crowd #different #either #individuals

But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#afghanistan #between #community #coordination #country

When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything. ↗

— Harry Browne

#anything #because #give #makes #meaningful

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#education #internet #meaningful #organisation #participation

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#change #confront #corporate #development #economic

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