#meanings

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

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People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation. ↗

— George Eliot

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

— Blaise Pascal

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Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

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It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music. ↗

— Kelly Jones

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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. ↗

— George Santayana

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I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#being #had #i #meanings #never

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ↗