Meaningless Quotes - Page 24

• a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Phrases, Repetition, Again And Again

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• Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.

  Oscar Wilde

  Change

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• An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure; and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.

  May Sarton

  Sex, Despair, Treasure

  May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.95, Open Road Media

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• In general, I feel, or I have come to feel, that the richest writing comes not from the people who dedicate themselves to writing alone. I know this is contradicted again and again but I continue to feel it. They don't, of course, write as much, or as fast, but I think it is riper and more satisfying when it does come. One of the difficulties of writing or doing any kind of creative work in America seems to me to be that we put such stress on production and material results. We put a time pressure and a mass pressure on creative work which are meaningless and infantile in that field.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Stress, Writing, Thinking

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• It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star

  Bill Vaughan

  Stars, Dark, Race

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• Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all.

  Barbara Holland

  Cat, Data, Trying

  Barbara Holland (1994). “Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives”, Ivy Books

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• The public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, or the 'consent of the governed' is meaningless... The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Nsa, Names

  "Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions". www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

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• cut off from the intuitive knowledge of ontological reason, technical knowledge is directionless and ultimately meaningless. When it dominates, life is deprived of an experience of depth, and it tends toward despair.

  Mary Daly

  Knowledge, Cutting, Despair

  Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive.

  Lucille Kallen

  Military, Two, Phrases

  Lucille Kallen (1987). “C.B. Greenfield: A Little Madness”

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• If we grow old wisely, we lay aside the senseless forms and meaningless conventions of society and go back to a more primitive mode of social intercourse, picking our friends the way children do, - because we like them, - spending time enough with them to get some real good out of them.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Friends, Children, Real

  Mary Heaton Vorse (2007). “The Autobiography of an Elderly Woman”, p.57, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Polar fleece is a plush, spongy, totally artificial material that weighs nothing and conveys no quality of warmth or coolness; in fact, you can wear it in the most bitter weather or in the hottest heat. Polar fleece looks neither flimsy and light nor hearty and warm. It has no historical, cultural, or physical association with a place, a season, a society, or any living thing. It is the first existential fabric - eminentaly useful, meaningless, dissociated and weird.

  Mary Ruefle

  Weather, Light, Historical

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.60, Wave Books

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• To prevent wars, people must criticize, in their own country, the abuses that occur in their own country. The role taboos play in the preparation for war. The number of shameful secrets keeps growing incessantly, boundlessly. How meaningless all censorship taboos become, and how meaningless the consequences for overstepping them, when your life is in danger.

  Christa Wolf

  Country, War, Play

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• I had a moment when I first got on Supernatural when I was like, omg, people are paying attention to me and I have fans, maybe I should cultivate an image and like try to seem really cool. I had this sort of moment of being commercially self conscious, and it took me maybe a month to realize, no, this is just not fucking who I am... Here's a picture of me in drag, fuck it - which is, by the way, so much more liberating and relaxing... There's not a more surefire way to give a stifled boring empty vapid meaningless piece of interview. Everything that comes out of your mouth sucks if you're trying to say the right thing...

  Misha Collins

  Fire, Self, People

  "Misha Collins Then and Now - Our Reciprocal Interviews with Castiel's Alter Ego". Interview with Lynn Zubernis, fangasmthebook.wordpress.com. March 12, 2012.

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• "Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.

  Gore Vidal

  War, Nouns, Advertising

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• Conscience is a creator of meaning. As a sense of constraint rooted in our emotional ties to one another, it prevents life from devolving into nothing but a long and essentially boring game of attempted dominance over our fellow human beings, and for every limitation conscience imposes on us, it gives us a moment of connectedness with an other, a bridge to someone or something outside of our often meaningless schemes.

  Martha Stout

  Emotional, Ties, Games

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• I have no regrets. Regrets are meaningless. You can't change yesterday or tomorrow. You can change only this present moment.

  Richey Edwards

  Regret, Yesterday, Tomorrow

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• Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  Greek, Mixtures, May

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• My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Daughter, Fall, Mean

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Awards, Play, Actors

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• I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

  B. D. Wong

  Strong, Reading, Mean

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• Without intent all painting is meaningless.

  Christopher Willard

  Purpose, Painting

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• Humans abhor a vacuum. The immediate filling of a vacuum is one of the basic functions of speech. Meaningless conversations are no less important in our lives than meaningful ones.

  Lidiya Ginzburg

  Meaningful, Important, Vacuums

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• I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they have been in the past; the time will come when most of our present controversies on these matters will seem as trivial, or as meaningless, as the theological debates in which the keenest minds of the Middle Ages dissipated their energies. Politics and economics are concerned with power and wealth, neither of which should be the primary, still less the exclusive, concern of full-grown men.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Believe, Past, Men

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• Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Life Is, Academic, Music Is

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• Commitment is not a barrier to freedom. Commitment is the *exercise* of freedom, the act of making a choice or decision and meaning it. The one without the other is meaningless.

  Michael Rosen

  Commitment, Exercise, Choices

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