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Nevertheless the meaning is not that the blessed bread which is divided, which is offered, and which the apostles received from the hand of Christ was not the body of Christ but becomes the body of Christ when the eating of it is begun.
- Martin Chemnitz
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According to the Epilepsy Foundation of America, there are more than two million Americans with epilepsy. Half have what I have, idiopathic epilepsy, meaning there is no known cause for the seizures.
- Kurt Eichenwald
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As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
- Vaclav Havel
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The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.
- Roy Haynes
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Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad's message made a whole lot of people feel whole again, human being again. Some of them came out and found a new meaning to their manhood and their womanhood.
- John Henrik Clarke
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What does art mean to me? I never really think about the 'meaning' of art. Yet, obviously, that's what I do.
- Gerard Malanga
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I'm much more interested in allowing a story to happen, and people find whatever meaning is in there.
- Colum McCann
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I arranged 'DT Suga,' which I previously used in lyrics, backwards. 'DT' is D Town and refers to my hometown. I like the meaning, and it sounds cool when I say it, so I think I'll continue using this name when I work externally. I also like how the mixtape came out in August.
- Suga
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I refer to what I do as 'conceptual portraits,' meaning that I come up with an idea or concept that I would like to explore, and then I find people that fit that idea.
- Alix Smith
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The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.
- Nikolai Berdyaev
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My management style is one of inclusion, meaning we're all one team no matter if you're making an hourly wage at the fulfillment center floor, if you're a C-staffer from a public company.
- Chieh Huang
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Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.
- Dennis Banks
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You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning.
- Alexander Kluge
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You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.
- Caroline Kennedy
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I'm always searching. It's the reason I'm here. It's not really about music: it's about searching for meaning.
- Charlie Haden
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Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.
- Marco Brambilla
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There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.
- James J. Gibson
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Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I do.
- John Lloyd
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Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.
- Hans Blix
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This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.
- Paul Ricoeur
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I developed an interesting skill set in that I was able to create a network and create experiences and environment - I built this decadent playground for men. It might have been successful, but it wasn't important. It didn't have any true meaning.
- Molly Bloom
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Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.
- Armstrong Williams
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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
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There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.
- Feist
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I don't like doing things without understanding the meaning. Once I walked out of a film event as I could not stand the insult they meted out to a Sanskrit verse.
- K. J. Yesudas
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I think that historical processes have meaning and that we have to accept this - or else face utter despair.
- Rene Girard
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A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
- Georges Bataille
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The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.
- Christopher Nolan
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Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!'
- Jo Ann Davis
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If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
- Mahalia Jackson
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Liberation from meaning leaves us skeptical of truth itself, comfortable only to acknowledge 'your truth' and 'my truth,' confident only in the reality of subjective feeling rather than objective fact.
- Michael J. Knowles
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I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.
- Ioan Gruffudd
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Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.
- Janelle Monae
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I'm ephemeral as much as I can be, so I started to think about the idea of not working. It's really about a change of attitude. It's not so much about stopping, but about re-thinking the meaning of one's production.
- Rirkrit Tiravanija
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I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.
- Evan Parker
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Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
- Stephen Gardiner
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My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning.
- Mark Z. Danielewski
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Being a mother is the only true meaning in my life. It's everything.
- Princess Stephanie of Monaco
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It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.
- Charles D. Broad
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The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.
- Ronnie Barker
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Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, and there's not really any tools to do that unless you're thinking about it in a more spiritual or philosophical realm.
- Win Butler
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Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning.
- Juanes
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The cloud removes the barriers to entry associated with traditional IT investments - meaning even the smallest companies can benefit from enterprise-class services.
- Jean-Philippe Courtois
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I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.
- Syd Barrett
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Working with Madonna, she always told me the meaning behind the steps and why I was doing these steps - she treated us like actors. So I feel like I've always been an actor, truly.
- Sofia Boutella
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
- Malcolm Boyd
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If I was in a bad mood, then maybe I won't talk about it, but you're going to know about it somehow. If something was bothering me, maybe I would have acted a little bit like a child, meaning I go break something in a room.
- Mike Patton
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The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
- Helen Garner
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We live in a society of triviality, and my music and what I'm about kind of starts to break that mold and adds more meaning and dialogue to hip hop.
- Andy Mineo
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My sister taught me how to write my name when I was about three. I remember writing my whole name: Jacqueline Amanda Woodson. I just loved the power of that, of being able to put a letter on the page and that letter meaning something.
- Jacqueline Woodson
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Why strive to be 'elite'? Because it infuses your life with purpose and meaning that does not depend on anyone or anything that can ever be taken away from you.
- Justine Musk
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It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.
- Edward M. Lerner
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You want the story to be about something, have some deeper meaning, but there is also an emotional, almost instinctual, element, which is, does this story seize some part of you and compel you to get to the bottom of it?
- David Grann
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The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.
- James Mark Baldwin
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I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.
- Raul Castro
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There are many songs that have become popular and people sing along with it without knowing the meaning of its lyrics.
- Gulzar
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Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
- Stephen Sondheim
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Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.
- Gray Davis
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To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
- Hermann Hesse
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A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.
- David Bohm
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We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.
- Erin McKean
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I was drawn to biology and history and, of course, art. And I loved languages. The biggest problem I had is that I wasn't taught about the connections between all these things. I think that would have given life a lot more meaning and it would be a lot more enjoyable.
- Hussein Chalayan
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I think things can have more than one meaning and still connect with people. There's a lot of meaning to the title 'Music For People' and they're all true and they're all accurate.
- Jon Crosby
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I looked up the Queen of Swords and I read the meaning. It was a tarot card. The description of the tarot card sounded to me like the description of a certain type of woman: She's strong, she's proud, she's intelligent and all these different things. I was like, that's how I want to be.
- Fallon Fox
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I always tell people, 'It'll get greater later' meaning that sometimes we have to pass through whatever it is. We know that we can get through it because others have.
- Jennifer Holliday
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The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.
- Virginia Postrel
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I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'
- Craig Ferguson
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I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.
- Charisma Carpenter
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Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.
- Shirley Hufstedler
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The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it's a euphemism for sarcasm. 'I'm not being sarcastic; I'm being ironic.' No, you're not. You're evading the responsibility for being sarcastic.
- Richard Corliss
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Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.
- Donald Miller
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Film is a game of projections upon projections, and the projected image on the screen is a game of light and shadows. There is nothing there; it is the brain that is decoding those things. The film doesn't have any decipherable kind of meaning if it's not seen.
- Sebastian Lelio
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Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.
- Gail Carriger
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Go out there and see where the world needs your touch. That kind of meaning not only makes you feel more connected to your environment on a local scale, but also to yourself - whether you can operate from something beyond the definition that others might place on you.
- Sharon Lawrence
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A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.
- Matt Berninger
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Age is the biggest risk factor for many diseases. You're 100 times more likely to get a tumor at age 65 than age 35. It makes a huge difference. It gives a whole new meaning to preventive medicine.
- Cynthia Kenyon
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I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.
- Will Oldham
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One of the appeals of markets, as a public philosophy, is they seem to spare us the need to engage in public arguments about the meaning of goods. So markets seem to enable us to be non-judgmental about values. But I think that's a mistake.
- Michael Sandel
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Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
- Martin Amis
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Prayer lays hold upon God and influences Him to work. This is the meaning of prayer as it concerns God. This is the doctrine of prayer, or else there is nothing whatever in prayer.
- Edward McKendree Bounds
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I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.
- Jeffery Deaver
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To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.
- Jason Newsted
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I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
- A. R. Ammons
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The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined.
- Alice Oswald
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I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.
- Jane Badler
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By living so long, the supercentenarian earns the prefixal 'super' and becomes a person suddenly freighted with power and meaning. He's Gandalf, Yoda, the Ancient Mariner, perhaps with some otherworldly insight. He's lived so long that, in fact, he's living the afterlife to his own initial life.
- Michael Paterniti
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When change takes place gradually, it's difficult to comprehend its meaning.
- David Sheff
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Trying to work out where you find meaning and sense in a meaningless world is my obsession.
- Tim Minchin
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Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.
- Charles Ives
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I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that's the case, then I guess I'm happy to hear it.
- Ken Watanabe
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Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.
- Michael Cunningham
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I've been working as an actress since I was very young, and I know a lot of people who are actors who don't have to deal with having a persona... You know, if you look up the word persona, it isn't even real. The whole meaning of the word is that it's made up, and it's like I didn't even get to make up my own. It can be annoying.
- Kristen Stewart
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Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
- Jacques Barzun
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The debate on healthcare was not done like most of our conferences are done - meaning it was not all on television. There was this procedural feeling that the bill wasn't done thoroughly and didn't reflect peoples' wishes. It's not coincidence that upwards of 60 percent of folks in my district are against it.
- Tim Griffin
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My 3-year-old daughter is somewhat psychic. I hate the abuse of that word, so let's just say... intuitive. She was born 'in the caul,' meaning my water never broke, and superstition says that makes a child psychic.
- Alysia Reiner
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Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.
- Gustav Stresemann
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Adopting big-business practices is one thing, and adopting agribusiness practices that would dilute the meaning of 'organic' is another. On the whole, I think we're doing a pretty good job of preserving the integrity of organic foods.
- Nell Newman
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The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love.
- Julie Benz
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I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can't have this one, it can be sad; for a woman who doesn't want a baby, it can feel like a huge relief, like having your whole life given back to you.
- Katha Pollitt
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Mark Zuckerberg is a genius. Not in the Asperger's, autistic way depicted in the very fictional movie 'The Social' Network, the cognitive genius of exceptional ability. That's a modern definition that reduces the original meaning.
- Antonio Garcia Martinez
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