Meaningless Quotes - Page 17

• History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event.

  Max Lucado

  Circles, Events, Movement

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The press and free speech landscape has totally changed. There is far less news reporting today. Instead, we have this endless stream of - largely meaningless and speculative - analysis by sideline commentators and self-proclaimed "experts."

  Chelsea Manning

  Self, News, Landscape

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I went to the Mary Lee Burbank School in Belmont. And it was a place where you, like, learned to go to the store? And I was saying, Oh God, I want to learn something else. I wanted to learn to read and write better and do mathematics better. They were very much into Abstract Expressionism and that artsy stuff. And where most kids did what I call meaningless blobs, I could render perfectly.

  Paul Laffoley

  Kids, Writing, School

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• This word "redemption," what is it about this word? Is it tangible? Do you know when it has happened? Is it necessary in a drama? Does it make a character boring? Does everyone agree on a character being "redeemed?" Or is it a word that is so subjective and polarizing and insignificant in modern television? It is a word that has been given, quite possibly, far too much significance, when it is truly ambiguous and meaningless in a drama. I have personally grown to loathe that word in literature.

  Michael Muhney

  Drama, Character, Doe

  Source: soaps.sheknows.com

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• The old battle between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats is now meaningless, not least because the social structures that underlay those parties, the church and the unions, have faded away. Nationalists and populists understood this change earlier; now the rest of the political world needs to understand that the political lines have been redrawn and it's time to change.

  Anne Applebaum

  Christian, Party, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The question of meaning goes all the way down: if human life as a whole is meaningless, so is everything that occurs or belongs within it. Since that's not a thought it is easy to live with, there is good reason to search for life's meaning.

  David E. Cooper

  Way, Reason, Easy

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There are reviews that are clearly wrong. Dr. Johnson's famous Life of Savage, he's clearly wrong about the value of Savage. But it's one of the great works in English literature. You can learn more about the artistic expression and what the poet does and how to write about art from that than any number of guys who are terrible writers, who have no original ideas, but who say yes, "Hamlet" is a wonderful play. It's a meaningless statement.

  Gary Giddins

  Art, Writing, Guy

  Source: bigthink.com

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• People should not feel intimidated by received wisdom. You have to discover it yourself. If I tell you that Armstrong is great, it's meaningless; you have to hear it.

  Gary Giddins

  People, Intimidated

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist worth a damn in this country was terribly opposed to that war, finally, when it became evident what a fiasco and meaningless butchery it was. We formed sort of a laser beam of protest. Every painter, every writer, every stand-up comedian, every composer, every novelist, every poet aimed in the same direction. Afterwards, the power of this incredible new weapon dissipated.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, War, Artist

  Source: www.sharedhost.progressive.org

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• I have no control, of course, over how I'm marketed. It's a sad thing, though, that so many people perceive literature to be gendered. The idea that some subjects are male and some are female is just preposterous to me. It's reductive and nonsensical, to separate writers and subjects and plots along gender lines. It's meaningless.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  People, Female, Literature

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.

  Unknown

  Believe, Despair, Nihilism

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• Stepping back from running [Donald Trump] positions is meaningless from a conflict of interests perspective. The presidency is a full-time job and he would have had to step back anyway.

  Reince Priebus

  Running, Jobs, Perspective

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and has enhanced my ability to do the same with my own life.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Together, Stitches, Cold

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and the rest of them just rats or meaningless people.

  Ai Weiwei

  Cities, People, Rats

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of Homo sapiens lacks the cognitive equipment to solve them. We are organisms, not angels, and our minds are organs, not pipelines to the truth. Our minds evolved by natural selection to solve problems that were life-and-death matters to our ancestors, not to commune with correctness ot to answer any question we are capable of asking.

  Steven Pinker

  Philosophical, Angel, Mind

  "How the Mind Works". Book by Steven Pinker, 1997.

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• If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.

  T. S. Eliot

  Important, Moved, Ifs

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• By the age of fifteen, I had convinced myself that nobody could give a reasonable explanation of what he meant by the word 'God' and that it was therefore as meaningless to assert a belief as to assert a disbelief in God. Though this, in a general way, has remained my position ever since, I have always avoided unnecessarily to offend other people holding religious belief by displaying my lack of such belief, or even stating my lack of belief, if I was not challenged.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Religious, People, Giving

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• War, like children's fights, are meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible.

  Rumi

  Children, War, Fighting

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• Less is more. Happiness is found close to the necessities of life, not in needless complexity and meaningless multiplicity of choice.

  Peter Dale Scott

  Choices, Less Is More, Found

  Peter Dale Scott (2007). “The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America”, p.13, Univ of California Press

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• The great question of philosophy remains: If life is meaningless, what can be done about alphabet soup?

  Woody Allen

  Philosophy, Done, Soup

  Woody Allen (2007). “Mere Anarchy”, Random House Incorporated

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• It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Born, Dies

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• I've been with a lot of women, but who's counting? It's nothing I'm proud of. It's a physical need. Sometimes afterwards I just want to blow my brains out, it's so meaningless.

  Mickey Rourke

  Blow, Brain, Needs

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• What we have is pretty meaningless. It's what we are that counts.

  Gene Simmons

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• Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Direct Action, Social Values, Expression

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• Polls are now even more meaningless than ever... there was the case of Ronnie O'Brien, the young footballer who incredibly found himself at Juventus, and even more incredibly found himself in the running to win an internet poll of the great club's greatest ever player. The curse ironically struck O'Brien a second time when he was at one point leading Time magazine's list of the Greatest People Of The 20th Century. The error in the polling was soon rectified and O'Brien, happily, is leading a highly successful career playing pro-football with FC Dallas in the American soccer league.

  Ian O'Doherty

  Soccer, Running, Football

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