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Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.
Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.
High on the list of things I've been meaning to do since I moved to New York in 2004 is going up to a Columbia University football game.
When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.
At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.
This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.
Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.
The thing I like about 'Nashville,' it just happens to be about musicians, and all the music is practical, meaning it's performed at a concert or during a rehearsal.
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.
They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.
Why take notes? The obvious reason is to remember. Visual note-taking translates what we hear into pictures that give context, color, and meaning. By adding symbols, visual metaphors, likenesses of people, and room layouts, we add several dimensions.
The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how it's being played - literally what the expression is, what the meaning is, what the direction of the music is.
Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.
Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.
Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things.
The debate on healthcare was not done like most of our conferences are done - meaning it was not all on television. There was this procedural feeling that the bill wasn't done thoroughly and didn't reflect peoples' wishes. It's not coincidence that upwards of 60 percent of folks in my district are against it.
I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.
A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.
The meaning of freedom is in the U.S. Constitution. Republicans want to live by the document's original meaning.
'Recluse' is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters.'
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
To the mass of mankind - meaning also womankind - marriage may be the only possible thing; but to the individual, it may be the one thing impossible.
It isn't true, in any conventional meaning of the term, that the United States or its NATO partners 'invaded' Afghanistan.
I was born on TV, meaning that's where I caught my break. So that's where I always have to be smart and revisit that medium as much as I can.
I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted.
Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.
Being a novelist is the adult version of a kid creating a make-believe world. But unlike a child, a writer of fiction has to come up with a structured story, one that has as much meaning for others as it has for her.
I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
Putting is so difficult, so universally vexing, that the best the pros can do is tell us how to miss. 'Miss it on the pro side,' they say, meaning miss it above the hole. I can't even do that consistently. I miss it on the pro side. I miss it on the amateur side. I miss it on both sides of the clown's mouth.
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.
The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad.
People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.
Corney & Barrow are proud to have the royal warrant, meaning that they provide the Palace with some of the greatest - and necessarily most expensive - wines from around the world. I am pleased to say that they also hold my own warrant, for providing exceptional wines at - surprisingly - modest prices.
Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.
Nosology (from the Greek 'nosos,' meaning 'disease,' and 'logos,' referring to 'study') is not a sport for the timid, and certainly not for those so scrupulous about rules and order that they demand consistency in all things.
We tend to talk about the world in a myriad of ways - a microscopic world of elementary particles, a biological world of organisms and evolution, a social world of morality and meaning. But it's all the same underlying world. That's the underlying theme of 'The Big Picture.'
It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
Choir singing's a wonderful thing for what ails you. There's a lot of meaning in a hymn if you think about it when you're singing it.
To Africanize colonial and capitalist power would destroy the meaning of our struggle.
What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
What is interesting to me about watching a show about the 1% is the world in which the 1% exists, meaning the flaws within the 99% that allow the 1% to exist.
I've always considered myself an ensemble girl, meaning I was always cast in the ensemble.
I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.
'The Wizard of Oz' is my favourite. It explains what life on this planet is about. Although Dorothy reaches Oz, she finds she had what she needed to go back to Kansas all along, but the Good Witch tells her that she had to learn it for herself. All of the answers to the meaning of life are there.
There is a saying in Arabic meaning that every situation must be considered based on the realities on the ground. I can talk in some places freely, but not in others.
The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.
The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.
Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.
The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.
As a social concept, 'white' is profound in its meaning. It means people who either come from or appear to come from Europe, but it's necessarily a construct of oppression.
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.
The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
I'm ephemeral as much as I can be, so I started to think about the idea of not working. It's really about a change of attitude. It's not so much about stopping, but about re-thinking the meaning of one's production.
It's almost a very rough rule of thumb: when Democrats are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around middle-class fears, Democrats win the election; when Republicans are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around cultural fears, Republicans win the election.
One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is so common that I know there must be a deeper meaning. There always seem to be guardians and spirits of doors, bridges, exits and entranceways.
If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.
This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy of all the others.
The true meaning of an artist/actor is opening my heart to the audience and, at the same time, opening their heart.
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.
Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.
I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.
Our political system has been bankrupted by the failures of Congress to act in ways that give meaning to the struggles our constituents endure.
I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
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