#meaning

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#context #deal #destroyed #distorted #either

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#dead #land #living #love #meaning

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#action #animate #any #basic #basic human rights

Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#animates #even #lives #meaning #morality

To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#anger #anxiety #any #anytime #balance

The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#bill #captive #clean #effect #having

A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#how #matter #meaningless #often #remains

In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#duty #ethic #had #honor #i

The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#art #beautiful #dance #finished #finished work

That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#internet #just #meaning #mostly #passing