Quotes tagged ‘meaningful’

“I shouldn’t be sitting here doing nothing, wasting my time, when I can actually have an impact. And then I sort of started to become better, and then I became a climate activist. And that helped a lot. And I think the more involved I became, the more involved I got in the climate movement, the bette…”

— Greta Thunberg, democracynow.org

“I love you and I've never pressured you to come out. Not for any of my premieres, not when I bought my house, but I didn't realize how big a night this is until a little while ago, and it's important to me that I share it with you. So I'll send a boat, I'll send a plane, I'll do whatever I have to d…”

— Doug Ellin, Lisa Alden, Vincent Chase, Adrian Grenier, imdb.com

“There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn't that kind of the point?”

— Bryan Cranston, Pam Halpert, Jenna Fischer, imdb.com

“Rufus, Brint, and Meekus were like brothers to me. And when I say brother, I don't mean, like, an actual brother, but I mean it like the way black people use it. Which is more meaningful I think.”

— Drake Sather, Ben Stiller, Derek Zoolander, Ben Stiller, imdb.com

“Try to look at your experience here as a mandala, Chapman. Work hard to make something as meaningful and beautiful as you can. And when you're done, pack it in and know it was all temporary. You have to remember that. It's all temporary.”

— Liz Friedman, Jenji Cohan, Yoga Jones, Constance Shulman, imdb.com

“I was at every tavern in that town trying to find us spies, build out this thing we started. And every time I said my name, they knew my name. The first thing they said every time was your name. Like we was two halves of the same thing. I can't be your wife, Jack. But you and I are gonna be partners…”

— Robert Levine, Jonathan E. Steinberg, Anne Bonny, Clara Paget, imdb.com

“You were told that it was shameful. And part of you believed it. Thomas was my husband. I loved him, and he loved me. But, what he shared with you... it was entirely something else. It's time you allowed yourself to accept that.”

— Aaron Helbing, Todd Helbing, Miranda Barlow, Louise Barnes, imdb.com

“Nothing in this world, that's worth having comes easy”

— Mark Stegemann, Bob Kelso, Ken Jenkins, imdb.com

“The people who say technology has disconnected you from others are wrong. So are the people who say technology automatically connects you to others. Technology is just a tool. It's a powerful tool, but it's just a tool. Deep human connection is very different. It's not a tool. It's not a means to an…”

— Melinda Gates, today.duke.edu

“I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.”

— John Green, amazon.com

“That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.”

— Wassily Kandinsky, amazon.com

“Poetry springs from something deeper; it’s beyond intelligence. It may not even be linked with wisdom. It’s a thing of its own; it has a nature of its own. Undefinable.”

— Jorge Luis Borges, theparisreview.org

“Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version.”

— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com

“I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.”

— Chaim Potok, amazon.com

“We have to help people fear less. Fear less by getting them to travel in deeper, richer, more meaningful ways. Ways that transforms lives, communities, and ultimately, the planet we live on.”

— Joe Diaz, youtube.com

“It’s not useless, and neither am I.”

— Ernest Cline, amazon.com