Top 100 Quotes About Word Meaning
#1. Worship, from the Latin word meaning "worth-ship", is where we express God's worth to us in our lives.
T.D. Jakes
#2. [T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive ... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.
Peter Drucker
#3. Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.
Robin Williams
#4. explained Conway, "is a slang word meaning a lazy fellow, a good-for-nothing.
James Hilton
#5. Chickamauga" is a Cherokee word meaning "river of death". ***
L.E. Johnson
#6. Moving from phonetics to etymology, 'vagina' originates from a word meaning sheath for a sword. Ain't got no vagina.
Inga Muscio
#7. Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to be born - can have no other meaning.
Sam Francis
#8. Insomnia, from the Greek word meaning I can't fucking sleep!
Billy Crystal
#9. Ah, yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
Robin Williams
#10. (The word "robot" is from a Czech word meaning "compulsory labor.")
Isaac Asimov
#11. Karma is a Sanskrit word meaning "action." It denotes an active force, the inference being that the outcome of future events can be influenced by our actions. To suppose that karma is some sort of independent energy which predestines the course of our whole life is simply incorrect.
Dalai Lama XIV
#12. The Greek word pseudepigrapha is a Greek word meaning 'falsely superscribed,' or what we moderns might call writing under a pen name. The classification, 'OT Pseudepigrapha,' is a label that scholars have given to these writings.
Craig A. Evans
#13. No word meaning "art" occurs in Aivilik, nor does "artist": there are only people. Nor is any distinction made between utilitarian and decorative objects. The Aivilik say simply, "A man should do all things properly."
Edmund Snow Carpenter
#14. Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning gatherer of beautiful things.
Rob Brezsny
#15. What do we mean by "knowledge" or "understanding"? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive neuroscientists are still very vague about the exact meaning of words like "understand," "think," and indeed the word "meaning" itself.
V.S. Ramachandran
#16. My personal style comes from jugaad, a Hindi word meaning doing more with less.
Leila Janah
#17. Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
Andy Rooney
#18. Fate.
A word meaning destiny.
Fate.
A word meaning doom.
Colleen Hoover
#19. It's an old Aboriginal word meaning 'Let's get together and have fun'. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it.
Barry Humphries
#20. All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"
an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "beauty tinged with sadness.
Gretel Ehrlich
#21. There is something very curious in semantics, that the word 'meaning' is probably, in the whole language, the word the meaning of which is the most difficult to find. What does 'to mean' mean?
Anonymous
#22. I said what might have been a bad word meaning excrement, but I hope that I used a polite synonym.
Dean Koontz
#23. I'm a bachelor in the old sense of the word, meaning I flirt, I have very many close relationships, but then I come home and like to read my book.
William Ivey Long
#24. The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in
the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste.
Howard Thurman
#25. Do not reflect on the meaning of the word; thinking and reflecting must cease, as all mystical writers insist. Simply "sound" the word silently, letting go of all feelings and thoughts.
Willigis Jager
#26. I know there's a word called "miracle". But I don't know if there's a meaning inside the word, "miracle
Dante Soo
#27. You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#28. The word 'Terror' is so generally and universally used in connection with everyday trivial matters that it is apt to fail to convey, when intended to do so, its real meaning.
Jim Corbett
#29. And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.
Ezra Pound
#30. Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right to say, 'This word shall bear this meaning,' and see if they can get it across. It is a sporting game, which all can play, only all cannot win.
Rose Macaulay
#31. They were as different as honesty and truth, but it takes experience to see the dissimilarities. Rocky was friendly, outgoing and boisterous; Charger was sullen, withdrawn and paranoid. Rocky liked people; Charger didn't. Rocky could trust; Charger didn't know the meaning of the word.
Joel M. McMains
#32. If one were to ask ... "What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question: "What is property?" may I not likewise answer, "theft" ... ?
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
#33. When you truly know the meaning of the word love, you will also know the meaning of the word pain.
Javan
#34. You don't need to," he replied. "You're already saved." And he went on to tell me that the original Greek meaning of the word saved meant that a person was whole.
Jane Fonda
#35. Education is thus constantly remade in the praxis. In order to be it must become. Its "duration" (in the Bergsonian meaning of the word) is found in the interplay of opposites permanence and change.
Paulo Freire
#36. Love' was a word I had cheapened with overuse over the years, bleeding it dry of meaning by saying it purely from force of habit, or to convince myself of something of which I was far from sure. I wanted to wait until the words started to feel meaningful again before I used them.
Catherine Sanderson
#37. Faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are nevertheless not inclined to give it up.
J.L. Austin
#38. But it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me."
As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don't catch it.
Suzanne Collins
#39. It's so fun to be in love or so I've heard, the meaning has no feeling even though I understand the word
Eyedea
#40. My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists ... meaning, doesn't like to talk to reporters ...
Thomas Pynchon
#41. Tagliatelle comes from the word tagliare, meaning 'to cut.' Tagliolini are simply thinly cut tagliatelle.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#42. The adjective sleazy must have acquired its present-day meaning to conform to its sound shape. A word cannot exist in slums, surrounded by slatterns and sluts, and preserve its purity amid all this slime.
Anatoly Liberman
#43. The latin word responsibility reveals its true meaning: the capacity to respond, to act.
- Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.
Paulo Coelho
#44. Exercising a spiritual gift without showing true love is meaningless.
Jim George
#45. Good's a pretty funny word. Never seems to have the same meaning to any two people" -T. Walker
Holly Schindler
#46. What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of "being informed" by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this word almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB.
Neil Postman
#47. Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.
Gautama Buddha
#48. At this very moment, I am suffering - as we say in French, j'ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.
Emil Cioran
#49. Love is a word hard to express, a feeling easy to express and a word hard to take, only the people who try it know the meaning and how to tell it wisely.
Auliq Ice
#50. Justice? What is justice? It's a mere word. It's an abstract word with no universal meaning. To different classes of people, justice means different things.
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Nien Cheng
#51. Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
Paulo Coelho
#52. What is the sign of every literary decadence? That life no longer dwells in the whole. The word becomes sovereign and leaps out of the sentence, the sentence reaches out and obscures the meaning of the page, the page gains life at the expense of the whole - the whole is no longer a whole.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#53. Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.
Eckhart Tolle
#54. Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.
C.S. Lewis
#55. All I knew about the word cyberspace when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative and essentially meaningless. It was suggestive of something, but had no real semantic meaning, even for me, as I saw it emerge on the page.
William Gibson
#56. To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#57. The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
Fiona Shaw
#58. Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.
Delta Goodrem
#59. From nowhere, a word appears: Mesozoic. He can see the word, he can hear the word, but he can't reach the word. He can't attach anything to it. This is happening too much lately, this dissolution of meaning, the entries on his cherished wordlists drifting off into space.
Margaret Atwood
#60. Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.
Edmund Morgan
#61. What did the mat say to the door? You must be really aDOORable to open up to everyone who knock at you. And I welcome everyone and what do I get? People stepping all over me
Ana Claudia Antunes
#62. I think of the meaning of the word "testimony." Originally it named the custom of two men holding each other's testicles in a gesture of trust, later to metamorphose into the handshake.
Alice Walker
#63. The word 'monster' [monstrum] derives from 'demonstrare,' meaning to show or to demonstrate. Heresy and evolutionary change are thus mere intrusions into a homogenous perception of reality. My vocation, I decided, would be to make my life an example.
But of what?
Steve Abbott
#64. So when the great word "Mother!" rang once more, I saw at last its meaning and its place; Not the blind passion of the brooding past, But Mother
the World's Mother
come at last, To love as she had never loved before
To feed and guard and teach the human race.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#65. I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word 'home' has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it's that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised.
Marjane Satrapi
#66. To American ears, the Filipino pronunciation of the word "evacuate" sounded more like "bokweet." They soon further Americanized it to "buckwheat," which would become guerilla slang meaning to place as much distance between oneself and the Japanese as possible.
John D. Lukacs
#67. We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#68. I wonder how you'll scream when I tear out your heart and show it to you, Emma said, very calmly, her voice low, meaning every word.
Christine Feehan
#69. I'm going to fuck you until you fall apart...dissolve in my fingers. Then I'll soothe your shattered soul and stitch you back together until everything has new meaning and Cairo is the only word you have for pleasure, remember?
Jaden Wilkes
#70. The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench and optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.
Colette
#71. I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.
Stefanie Powers
#73. In interpreting a work of art, we draw upon our own aims and endeavors, inform it with a meaning that has its origin in our own ways of life and thought. In a word, any art that really affects us becomes to that extent modern art.
Arnold Hauser
#75. I think is sad, how easily we throw around the word without actually understanding the sacrifice behind its meaning. Love in its definition isn't about a strong feeling towards someone, but action.
Rachel Van Dyken
#76. I understood the meaning of the word swoon - I had become the very definition.
Lauren Blakely
#77. She gave the word devastated a whole new meaning. I truly believed, at that point, that the word devastated should be reserved for mothers.
I no longer believe that.
The word devastated should be reserved for brothers, too.
Colleen Hoover
#78. Every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.
Freya Stark
#80. I have two definitions for the word "magick." The first is knowing that I can effect change through my own will, even behind these bars; and the other meaning is more experiential - seeing beauty for a moment in the midst of the mundane.
Damien Echols
#81. All around the recognized word and the comprehended sentence, the other graphisms take flight, carrying with them the visible plenitude of shape and leaving only the linear, successive unfurling of meaning
not one drop of rain falling after another, much less a feather or a torn-of leaf.
Michel Foucault
#82. That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words.
Bobby Bowden
#83. I opened up a dictionary
And tried to find a meaning in a hurry.
Turned the pages to look for the word -- "Perfect"
And saw you listed there, coz I know you're worth it!
Ritika Chhabra
#84. The word 'friend' has become so utterly void of meaning in a world governed by social media. How can anyone truly claim to have eleven hundred friends ? In my book that would involve making time to meet at least three of them every day of the year.
Alex Morritt
#85. Hero. People didn't even know the meaning of the word.
Arlene Hunt
#86. the word that the Buddha used for suffering, dukkha, actually has the more subtle meaning of "pervasive unsatisfactoriness," I was even more impressed. "Suffering" always sounded a bit melodramatic, even if a careful reading of history seemed to support it. "Pervasive unsatisfactoriness
Mark Epstein
#87. Love is just a word until you meet someone who gives it meaning.
Kate McGahan
#88. At these moments I need my reading easy and quick; I need to turn the pages without knowing it. I don't have the bandwidth to wonder about the underlying meaning of the exact word chosen to phrase how one turned around or analyze just why an object was described in a certain
Lauren Leto
#89. The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions. On the other hand, but more slowly, life has thrown light for me on the meaning of books.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#91. If we were constantly remembering that love is as love does, we would not use the word in a manner that devalues and degrades it's meaning.
Bell Hooks
#92. Photography has clarity in the same way that language has. A word is precise, but its meaning can change based on the words around it: think tank, tank top.
Jason Fulford
#93. who speaks without moving his or her lips | related word: ventriloquism ****** LOG Origin: Greek Meaning: thought Examples: dialogue -- conversation or discussion | related word: lexically epilogue -- words that are
Manik Joshi
#94. I think that too many people think too much about my lyrics. I am more a person who works with the sound of a word than with its meaning. Often I just choose the words because of the rhythm not because of the meaning.
Mike Patton
#95. Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force.
Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning.
Don't give up. Remember, it's always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.
Paulo Coelho
#96. The word 'algebra' derives from Al-Khawarizmi's book title "al-jabr", meaning "completion"; balancing both sides to find a solution
Firas Alkhateeb
#97. You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.
Rebecca Solnit
#98. Every inch of skin removed to the accompaniment of exquisite pain," added the prisoner, helpfully. Rincewind paused. He thought he knew the meaning of the word "exquisite," and it didn't seem to belong anywhere near "pain.
Terry Pratchett
#99. [On husband Phil Donahue:] The man does not know the meaning of the word tidy. He asked me one day, 'Where are my shoes?' So I asked him, 'Where are my shoes?' I don't know what it is about men. They think that women have radar attached to our uteruses.
Marlo Thomas
#100. The word "identification" is derived from the Latin word idem, meaning "same" and facere, which means "to make." So when I identify with something, I "make it the same." The same as what? The same as I. I endow it with a sense of self, and so it becomes part of my "identity.
Eckhart Tolle
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