Meaningless Quotes - Page 6

• Words become meaningless, the mind cuts itself off from reality for a little while, a necessary breathing space until one is ready to cope.

  Jack Higgins

  Cutting, Reality, Breathing Space

  Jack Higgins (2016). “The Liam Devlin Novels: The Eagle Has Landed, Touch the Devil, and Confessional”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• NYC Marathon cancelled: runners are scrambling to find some other meaningless accomplishment to use as a proxy for control over their lives.

  Nils Parker

  Nyc, Accomplishment, Use

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• My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Years, Age

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Psychiatry is all biological and all social. There is no mental function without brain and social context. To ask how much of mind is biological and how much social is as meaningless as to ask how much of the area of a rectangle is due to its width and how much to its height

  Leon Eisenberg

  Brain, Mind, Height

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• I do not believe in meaningless coincidences. I believe every coincidence is a message, a clue about a particular facet of our lives that requires our attention.

  Deepak Chopra

  Believe, Attention, Messages

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• Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to go wrong. The truth is that you are supremely unimportant and nothing matters. All of man's striving is for nothing; all effort is wasted. To realize that everything is meaningless is tremendously liberating, since it then leaves us completely free to create our own lives and ignore the plans that others have for us.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Men, Thinking, Self

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• Maybe life isn't meaningless...Maybe just YOUR life is meaningless

  Donald Miller

  Life Is

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• Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own. Whether it is our own meaningless self we are upholding, or some doctrine devoid of evidence, we can do it only in a frenzy of faith.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Expression, Support

  "The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1955.

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• Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if there are no books on biology in your library, and the library is never open, your drive is meaningless.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Book, Library, May

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled political ideals. And all the words either ambiguous or meaningless. And people getting so excited about them they'll murder their neighbours for using a word they don't happen to like. A word that probably doesn't mean as much as a good belch. Just a noise without even the excuse of gas on the stomach.

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, Mean, People

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “After Many a Summer”, p.54, Random House

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• That doesn't make any sense. Sorry. There's no known way of saying an English sentence in which you begin a sentence with "in" and emphasize it. Get me a jury and show me how you can say
  "In July" and I'll go down on you. That's just idiotic, if you'll forgive me for saying so. It's just stupid... "In July"; I'd love to know how you emphasize "In" in "In July". Impossible!
  Meaningless!

  Orson Welles

  Sorry, Stupid, July

  YouTube Channel "Meta Sage"/"Obscure Audio 2: Orson Welles Outtakes - Frozen Peas", www.youtube.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I'm not in the habit of having my photo snapped on some pretty young thing's arm. I avoid pictures because they serve no purpose, except to point out each new line, which is very meaningless.

  George Harrison

  Purpose, Lines, Arms

  Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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• I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage its meaningless to copy something someone has done before.

  Miyavi

  Artist, Done, Singers

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• My work has to do with a defense against fervor. People are always in a rush. To do what? To do nothing! There is a kind of fervor that is completely meaningless. This drawing is a call for meditation.... I am an insomniac, so for me the state of being asleep is paradise. It is a paradise I can never reach. But I still try to conquer the insomnia, and to a large extent I have done it; it is conquerable. My drawings are a kind of rocking or stroking and an attempt at finding peace. Peaceful rhythm. Like rocking a baby to sleep.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Baby, Sleep, Insomnia

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• It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a galaxy in cold, meaningless space. But just because our existence may have arisen unintentionally and without purpose doesn't preclude meaning or purpose from emerging as a result of our interaction and collaboration. Meaning may not be a precondition for humanity as much as a by-product of it.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Space, People, Humanity

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• The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless

  Robert Aickman

  Firsts, Steps, Making Time

  Robert Aickman (2014). “The Unsettled Dust”, p.204, Faber & Faber

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• Having been adopted, I really have a strong sense- a necessity almost- for stability, a foundation where my family is concerned. [Success] would be meaningless without anyone to share it with.

  Faith Hill

  Strong, Adoption, Foundation

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• If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.

  David McCullough

  Special, Trophies, Ifs

  David McCullough's Commencement Address at Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.thedailybeast.com. June 9, 2012.

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• Though my problems are meaningless, that don't make them go away.

  Neil Young

  Going Away, Problem

  Song: On the Beach, Album: On The Beach

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• Football is the love of my life. I would never say I don't want to play. Somebody could say that this game is meaningless. Who is it meaningless to? I guess people who are watching the game? Or the people who are playing it? It's definitely not meaningless to us.

  Shawne Merriman

  Football, Games, Play

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• Ecstasy is what everyone craves - not love or sex, but a hot-blooded, soaring intensity, in which being alive is a joy and a thrill. That enravishment doesn't give meaning to life, and yet without it life seems meaningless.

  Diane Ackerman

  Inspirational, Sex, Giving

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.119, Vintage

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• It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song.... It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make music for a living, to perform these songs over and over, you have to safeguard those sparks. If you can do that, they'll last a lot longer.

  M. Ward

  Song, Writing, Magic Moments

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• The struggle for world domination is between me and the Jews. All else is meaningless. The Jews have inflicted two wounds on the world: Circumcision for the body and conscience for the soul. I come to free mankind from their shackles.

  Adolf Hitler

  Struggle, Two, Soul

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• To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.

  Carl L. Becker

  Philosophy, Rights, Independence

  Carl L. Becker (2013). “Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas”, p.188, Vintage

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• Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Opportunity, Economics, Advantage

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