Static Meaning Quotes

#1. All the higher values in life get redefined on a regular basis for good; there is no static meaning as such.

Harshit Walia

#2. The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.

William J. Brennan

#3. To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

Victor Hugo

#4. Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Arnold Bennett

#5. When I think of Peter Wolf I always remember the Portuguese proverb: 'Never say you will not drink from that glass again.'

Faye Dunaway

#6. Just because something didn't happen doesn't mean it isn't true.

Tom Robbins

#7. You never have to suffer because of, or be denatured by, another person, even someone you love.

Rossana Condoleo

#8. The meaning of Sannyas is not well defined. Its meaning is not static; it is redefined after short periods of time in the life of a Sannyasi.

Harshit Walia

#9. I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'

Tao Lin

#10. Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.

Sarah Addison Allen

#11. Most men like "no."
We tend to like "yes" a whole lot better,
But frequently we are happy enough with just a clear "no!

Jose N. Harris

#12. I don't care what anyone says, the stars give you hope on a dark and gloomy night.

Nikki Rowe

#13. Although it was hard to tell, with bluegrass, wether or not they were supposed to sound like geese.

Sarah McCarry

#14. We're both young Dominicans who represent North Brooklyn, but we're also hardened criminals," Reynoso said. "We're dance outlaws.

Emily Witt

#15. You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.

Paulo Coelho

#16. In any case, ideals are something we strive for; they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts; they provide meaning and direction; they are not, however, static quotas that we either fulfill or do not.

Vaclav Havel

#17. If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

Mark Twain

#18. My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

Hans Christian Andersen

#19. to become a parent was to go around with your heart flayed open for the rest of your life. Moving the earth and giving your best for your kids, with no guarantee your best would be enough to keep them safe.

Suanne Laqueur

#20. Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.

Alexander Calder