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After a certain point, money is meaningless, it ceases to...

After a certain point, money is meaningless, it ceases to be the goal, the game is what counts.

Quote by Aristotle Onassis about purpose, games, money

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would...

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Quote by Aristotle Onassis about woman, money, world

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change, and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Quote by Camille Paglia about history, greatness, force, beauty, order, change, man

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

Quote by Camille Paglia about politics, art, magic, emotions, fear, value, pleasure, beauty

I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter.

Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about opinion, work, time

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come...

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

Quote by Paracelsus about dream, inspiration

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.

Quote by Evan Parker about music, question, rightness, things

When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and...

When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.

Quote by Evan Parker about age, question

The simplest way to see the meaning of the concept of a...

The simplest way to see the meaning of the concept of a closed, system in this sense is to consider the example of a system of simultaneous equations.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about example, common sense, sense

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and...

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

Quote by Blaise Pascal

Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention. The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some...

Quote by John Dos Passos about invention, originality, writers, writing, world, time

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

Quote by Erich Fromm about life

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

Quote by Bertrand Russell about philosophy

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of...

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger about life, being

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

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

Quote by Mary Ann Evans about opinion

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as...

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

Quote by Jacques-Yves Cousteau about nature, hope, old, olderness, man

All these prove the fact that we cannot accept that everything reduces to the meaning of man, not the fact the signs were always in sight, and they were neither created nor determined, but they would have existed eternally, being that true as to...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about truth, astrology, people, absolute, knowledge, being, man

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Quote by Hannah Arendt about action, name

Love of man for woman, love of woman for man. That's the...

Love of man for woman, love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

Quote by Zane Grey about love, woman, man, nature, life

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

Quote by William Shakespeare about books, eyes

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