Meaningness Quotes & Sayings

Now, over the years I've been forced to conclude that most celebrations don't work. The more carefully planned a signal occasion, the more likely it will trickle by on a pale tide of dilute well-meaningness. Christmases, birthdays, award ceremonies, and weddings are swallowed by planning and preparation on the one side and cleaning up on the other, and almost never seem to have actually happened. — Lionel Shriver

Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions. — Ken Auletta

White men get a choice. They get to choose they job, they house. They get to choose to make black babies, then disappear into thin air, like they wasn't never there to begin with, like these black women they slept with or raped done laid on top of themselves and got pregnant. White men get to choose for black men too. Used to sell 'em; now they just send 'em to prison like my daddy, so that they can't be with they kids. — Yaa Gyasi

Your wife is a rose; love her with all her thorns. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I didn't have a very religious family. — Barbara Walters

To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country. — George Orwell

if the past is any indicator of our future, today's big bets won't seem so wild in a few years' time. — Eric Schmidt

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball. — George Steinbrenner

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost. — Leslye Walton

As we wait, God reveals his purpose in the preparations he is doing within us, and our hopeful outlook is the result. — Shelly Miller

Whether it's writing a monologue or writing standup or writing a screenplay or writing a play, I think staying involved in the creation of your own work empowers you in a way, even if you don't ever do it. It gives you a sense of ownership and a sense of purpose, which I think as an actor is really important. — Denis O'Hare

A society can never be free without women's liberation — Abdullah Ocalan