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Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless. — St. Jerome

Do you think it's better to fail at something worthwhile, or to succeed at something meaningless? — Tommy Wallach

Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being , and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me. — Kate Smith

People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless. — Frances Hesselbein

Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Do you realize that anything you can do in your lifetime will be meaningless a hundred years from now? she says. — Chuck Palahniuk

And analogies were mostly meaningless - a matter of phenotype rather than genotype (to use another analogy). — Kim Stanley Robinson

Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive ... — Lucille Kallen

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless. — Kenneth E. Boulding

The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent — Kwame Nkrumah

Without a dream, life is meaningless. — Sunday Adelaja

The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men. — Marc Bloch

Life is just too beautiful if meaning is attached to it, and useless when meaningless!! — Tripta Arora

You can say you love someone - but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions, your words become meaningless. — Stephen Covey

Just as it was pointless to argue whether birds or fish were superior, debating the superiority of man or machine was also meaningless. — Hiroshi Yamamoto

Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist. — Naguib Mahfouz

Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor. — Peter Drucker

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless. — Norman Borlaug

I'm blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me. — Sophie Kinsella

Walking at night is like walking in a dream. It's dark, so I don't notice much of the scenery. I don't wear my watch, so time becomes meaningless. — Leila Sales

The crowds themselves are meaningless. The thing that counts is what happens to the hearts of the people. — Billy Graham

Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it. — Stephen A. Diamond

Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth. — Arthur C. Clarke

Though my problems are meaningless, that don't make them go away. — Neil Young

Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate. — Henry Hyde

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'. — C.S. Lewis

It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant. — David Jeremiah

Nothing is meaningless it's how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future. — Bill Crawford

Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless. — Tim Cook

One could reconcile oneself to existence only because it was meaningless. It — W. Somerset Maugham

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

Giving a woman your whole life is meaningless without giving her your whole heart as well. — Deborah Harkness

So-called 'sustainable development' ... is meaningless drivel. — James Lovelock

Money without meaning is meaningless — Josh Bezoni

Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless. — Helen Clark MacInnes

People with victim mentality spend their energy not on achieving their target but on meaningless complaints — Sunday Adelaja

Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination. — W.W. Sawyer

So you choose to measure by the only standard that allows your life to be meaningless? — Orson Scott Card

It is usually meaningless work, not overwork, that wears us down, saps our strength, and robs our joy. — Rick Warren

It's not the imbalances of life that will get you down-it's doing meaningless things that aren't taking you where you want to go. — Danielle LaPorte

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people. — Geezer Butler

Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.' — Evan Sayet

When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless. — John Gardner

Choose your words wisely with consideration for others & self because repetitive, meaningless words ... leave people tone deaf. — Sanjo Jendayi

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. — Pope Benedict XVI

Genuine beauty is always meaningless, without virtue. — Osamu Dazai

I decided to give up meaningless sex, but then I remembered that everything is meaningless. — Oli Anderson

Could do better' is a meaningless conclusion. 'Could be happier' is the only one that counts. — Stephen Fry

Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering. — D. Morgenstern

Time becomes meaningless without memory. — Jon Edgell

Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events — Michel Faber

Although we will both die, and life is utterly meaningless, my time is vastly more important than yours. — Stephen Evans

Without the possibility of error and real indeterminacy implied by the quantum theory, human liberty is meaningless. — Heinz R. Pagels

Life is so meaningless without trouble. — M.F. Moonzajer

Sometimes an understanding silence was better than a bunch of meaningless words. — Mia Sheridan

It is meaningless to do the work of God without putting the love of God in it. — Sunday Adelaja

The historian without his facts is rootless and futile; the facts without their historian are dead and meaningless. — E.H. Carr

If the devil can't steal your soul, he'll just keep you busy doing meaningless church work. — Shane Claiborne

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism. — Richard M. Nixon

Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace. — Gautama Buddha

If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless. — Stephen Covey

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd. — Thomas Nagel

I will not utter falsehoods but I have no objection to making meaningless statements. — Richard Dawkins

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding. — Moses Finley

It is better to have a short meaningful life than to have a long meaningless one. — Alvin Conway

And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured
Of a craving for something I cannot find And of the shame of never finding it. — T. S. Eliot

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? — Jules Feiffer

The great question of philosophy remains: If life is meaningless, what can be done about alphabet soup? — Woody Allen

When all normal rules are suspended, and ordinary things that used to be important suddenly become meaningless. — L.J.Smith

Words without experience are meaningless. — Vladimir Nabokov

It's meaningless to just live, it's meaningless to just fight, cause i wanna win and survive !!!! — Tite Kubo

Life no longer felt meaningless. It felt stressful and terrifying, but it definitely didn't feel meaningless. — Donald Miller

Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless. — Isaac Asimov

Know that mumblings and pleadings are far from meaningless for if they come from the heart they are, in fact, prayers. — Olive Rose Steele

Without the cross we have a meaningless and powerless Christianity. — Michael Catt

I looked around at all the certificates on the wall and felt thankful to come from a place where personal success was meaningless. — Matt Haig

all-too-human powers — No One

Distance is meaningless, as is time, when minds and souls intertwine."

-Gerome in CHANGELING- — Vaun Murphrey

You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace. — Napoleon Bonaparte

It's just that ... without the memories it's all meaningless. — Lois Lowry

When you break an agreement in a relationship, you must offer an amendment first, or it is meaningless. — Marshall Sylver

Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter ... with alliteration, no less! — E.A. Bucchianeri

Every second you think meaningless, makes your minutes less productive and take you hours behind — Ankit Goel

If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone. — C.S. Lewis

YOU NEED BOTH QUALITY AND RESULTS. RESULTS WITHOUT QUALITY IS BORING; QUALITY WITHOUT RESULTS IS MEANINGLESS. — Johan Cruijff

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. — Bergen Evans

Angels do not whisper in our ears. Predestination is a fairy tale, a bedtime story for adults scared of meaningless death. — Paul Doiron

To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question. — Carl L. Becker

A thoroughly honest man is a rare jewel in the shallow stream of meaningless pebbles. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I had so much free time that free time was meaningless. — Maggie Stiefvater

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. — W. Somerset Maugham

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act. — Bernard DeVoto

The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere. — Ray Bradbury

If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept? — Lois McMaster Bujold

How delicately language skirts the issue. How meaningless it is. — Audrey Niffenegger

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. — William Gibson

In our present universe, many things are empty stories; amongst all these meaningless stories, love is less meaningless story than others! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Without the interpretation of the universe by man to the glory of God the whole world would be meaningless — Cornelius Van Til

To say that life is meaningless is to express an attitude, not to state a fact — Peter Singer