Unmeaning Quotes

#1. Silence is better than unmeaning words.

Pythagoras

#2. And why is Grant so solemn today upon our great achievement, except he knows this unmeaning inhuman planet will need our warring imprint to give it value, and that our civil war, the devastating manufacture of the bones of our sons, is but a war after a war, a war before a war.

E.L. Doctorow

#3. Too long I've owed you this apology
For the apparently unmeaning sorrow
You were afflicted with in those old days.
But it was of the essence of the trial
You shouldn't understand it at the time.

Robert Frost

#4. The man who does that which avails in reforms or other good works always has clubs thrown at him. The nobodies are passed over in Silence, or with good natured unmeaning compliments after they leave high places.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#5. A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

William Hazlitt

#6. Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

Alexander Pope

#7. The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

H.G.Wells

#8. Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.

Matthew Arnold

#9. It is a great advantage for any man to be able to talk or hear, neither ignorantly nor absurdly, upon any subject; for I have known people, who have not said one word, hear ignorantly and absurdly; it has appeared by their inattentive and unmeaning faces.

Doug Stanhope

#10. If there are frontiers between the civilised and the barbaric, between the meaningful and the unmeaning, they are not lines on a map nor are they regions of the earth. They are boundaries of the mind alone.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. Reading releases you from the limits of yourself.

Chloe Thurlow

#12. He who has been with us in six troubles, will not forsake us in the seventh.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#13. Your body's many cries for water: you are not sick, you are thirsty: don't treat thirst with medications!

Fereydoon Batmanghelidj

#14. Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.

Shirley Maclaine

#15. But come what may, I do adore thee so That danger shall seem sport, and I will go!

William Shakespeare

#16. There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.

Rumi

#17. The fourth gift is Compassion. May you be gentle with yourself and others. May you forgive those who hurt you and yourself when you make mistakes.

Charlene Costanzo

#18. A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.

Joel Hodgson

#19. Leading worship is about a heart that craves to magnify the Lord!

Gangai Victor

#20. You don't need to worry, though. He's not my type."
"I don't think I've ever heard a girl say that before," said Simon. "I thought Jace was the kind of guy who was everyone's type.

Cassandra Clare

#21. Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.

Peter S. Beagle

#22. Keynes did not teach us how to perform the miracle of turning a stone into bread, but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.

Ludwig Von Mises

#23. We were a different kind of Christian, the quiet, reasonable kind, a breed embarrassed by the mention of miracles.

Karen Thompson Walker