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Image of Sara Zarr
Don't ask me how I am,' I blurt. 'Please.' I want to keep feeling good. Just because the lights are on doesn't mean I have to look.
- Sara Zarr
Collection: Mean
Image of Terry Pratchett
In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil *odegra* in the language of the Black Priesthood of Ancient Mu, and means 'Hail the Great Beast, Devourer of Worlds'.
- Terry Pratchett
Collection: Mean
Image of Michel de Montaigne
We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will: on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man.
- Michel de Montaigne
Collection: Mean
Image of Carroll Quigley
Inflation, especially a slow steady rise in prices, encourages producers, because it means that they can commit themselves to costs of production on one price level and then, later, offer the finished product for sale at a somewhat higher price level. This situation encourages production because it gives confidence of an almost certain profit margin.
- Carroll Quigley
Collection: Mean
Image of Gary Zukav
Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience.
- Gary Zukav
Collection: Mean
Image of Antonin Scalia
I think the main fight is to dissuade Americans from what the secularists are trying to persuade them to be true: that the separation of church and state means that the government cannot favor religion over nonreligion.
- Antonin Scalia
Collection: Mean
Image of Antonin Scalia
Perhaps sensing the dismal failure of its efforts to show that 'established by the State' means 'established by the State or the Federal Government,' the Court tries to palm off the pertinent statutory phrase as "inartful drafting.' This Court, however, has no free-floating power 'to rescue Congress from its drafting errors.'
- Antonin Scalia
Collection: Mean
Image of Donald Trump
[Barack Obama] will spend long periods of time explaining to people why he won't use it. At the end of the explanation, nobody knows why he still won't use it because the explanation is no good. And I mean, honestly we have a president that in my opinion really doesn't know what he's doing.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Mean
Image of Rebecca West
Embraces do not matter; they merely indicate the will to love and may as well be followed by defeat as victory. But disregard means that now there needs to be no straining of the eyes, no stretching forth of the hands, no pressing of the lips, because theirs is such a union that they are no longer aware of the division of their flesh.
- Rebecca West
Collection: Mean
Image of Brandon Sanderson
Faith means that it doesn't matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.
- Brandon Sanderson
Collection: Mean
Image of Hudson Taylor
The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things - things greater even than we can conceive.
- Hudson Taylor
Collection: Mean
Image of Nathaniel Branden
Taking on responsibilities that properly belong to someone else means behaving irresponsibly toward yourself. You need to know where you end and someone else begins. You need to understand boundaries. You need to know what is and is not up to you, what is and is not in your control, what is and is not your responsibility.
- Nathaniel Branden
Collection: Mean
Image of Nathaniel Branden
It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively--which means to live authentically--is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding--from others and also from themselves.
- Nathaniel Branden
Collection: Mean
Image of Ishmael Reed
I asked Joe Weixlmann why he would print a death threat like that in light of the fact that there are all of these armed ideological nuts wandering around loose. He said that for him, to "ice" someone means to reprimand them.
- Ishmael Reed
Collection: Mean
Image of Octavio Paz
Loving means getting rid of names.
- Octavio Paz
Collection: Mean
Image of Igor Stravinsky
Revolution means turning the wheel.
- Igor Stravinsky
Collection: Mean
Image of Josef Pieper
To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole.
- Josef Pieper
Collection: Mean
Image of Josef Pieper
[T]o know means to reach the reality of existing things[.]
- Josef Pieper
Collection: Mean
Image of Yukio Mishima
If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres, he must first - having no ready-made, abstract components such as works and sounds - supply other means to abstraction instead.
- Yukio Mishima
Collection: Mean
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
To the mean all becomes mean.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Mean
Image of Howard Zinn
The idea of direct action against the evil that you want to overcome is a kind of common denominator for anarchist ideas and anarchist movements. I think one of the most important principles of anarchism is that you cannot separate means and ends. Anarchism requires means and ends to be in line with one another. I think this is in fact one of the distinguishing characteristics of anarchism.
- Howard Zinn
Collection: Mean
Image of Jo Brand
Usually, what people in the public eye do is pick two charities and just exclusively work for them. But that means you have to turn people down all the time, so I try and do something for everyone that asks me, at least once.
- Jo Brand
Collection: Mean
Image of John Wooden
Leaders must have patience for those under your supervision. Don't expect too much too soon. Maybe it was easy for you, but that doesn't mean it's going to be easy for somebody else. Be sure you have patience.
- John Wooden
Collection: Mean
Image of Muqtada al Sadr
I renew my call for the occupier (the United States) to leave our land. The departure of the occupier will mean stability for Iraq, victory for Islam and peace and defeat for terrorism and infidels.
- Muqtada al Sadr
Collection: Mean
Image of Pythagoras
most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.
- Pythagoras
Collection: Mean
Image of Neil deGrasse Tyson
If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Collection: Mean
Image of Neil Postman
I mean to suggest that without a transcendent and honorable purpose, schooling must reach its finish, and the sooner we are done with it, the better.
- Neil Postman
Collection: Mean
Image of Jack Nicklaus
I was never satisfied if I didn't win a major. I mean, not that year or any major I played, I wasn't satisfied unless I won it. But that's what our goals are. I'm sure that these guys' goals are the same as mine. They want to win every time they play. If you don't win, then you're not happy, obviously.
- Jack Nicklaus
Collection: Mean
Image of David Bowie
I have absolutely no interest in rock and roll. I'm just being David Bowie. Mick Jagger is rock and roll. I mean, I go out and my music is roughly the format of rock and roll, I use the chord changes of rock and roll, but I don't feel I'm a rock and roll artist. I'd be a terrible rock artist, absolutely ghastly.
- David Bowie
Collection: Mean
Image of William Shakespeare
Mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Mean
Image of Eckhart Tolle
Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past and allowing the present moment to be as it is, the miracle of transformation happens not only within but also without.
- Eckhart Tolle
Collection: Mean
Image of Edward Abbey
For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
- Edward Abbey
Collection: Mean
Image of Donald Trump
The establishment and their media enablers will control over America through means that are very well known. Anyone who challenges their control is deemed a sexist, a racist, a xenophobe, and morally deformed.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Mean
Image of Donald Trump
Immigration reform should mean something else entirely. It should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Mean
Image of Sarah Rees Brennan
I want to burn the world because Alan is gone," he said. "I want to destroy everything I see. But you mean something to me. I will not destroy the world, because it has you in it.
- Sarah Rees Brennan
Collection: Mean
Image of Richard Branson
And [we hope to sell] the clean fuels to other airlines. I mean, the exciting thing about the breakthrough with clean fuels for the airline industry is there's only 1,700 pumps in the world that fill up the airlines.
- Richard Branson
Collection: Mean
Image of T. H. White
Nobody can be saved from anything, unless they save themselves. It is hopeless doing things for people - it is often very dangerous to do things at all - and the only thing worth doing for the race is to increase its stock of ideas. Then, if you make available a larger stock, people are at liberty to help themselves from out of it. By this process the means of improvement is offered, to be accepted or rejected freely, and there is a faint hope of progress in the course of millennia. Such is the business of the philosopher, to open new ideas. It is not his business to impose them on people.
- T. H. White
Collection: Mean
Image of Laini Taylor
What does true even mean when it comes to a face? Only souls are true, and when you spill them to the air they melt away.
- Laini Taylor
Collection: Mean
Image of Alice Walker
Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have to then think about, "Can I pay this? What will this mean to me - to my relationships, to my family, to everybody? What is this going to take? How much of me is this going to take?"
- Alice Walker
Collection: Mean
Image of Alice Walker
What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.
- Alice Walker
Collection: Mean
Image of Marianne Williamson
What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past and the future as well into the hands of God. The biblical statement that “time shall be no more” means that we will one day live fully in the present, without obsessing about past or future.
- Marianne Williamson
Collection: Mean
Image of A. A. Milne
What I like doing best is Nothing." "How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time. "Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it. It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." "Oh!" said Pooh.
- A. A. Milne
Collection: Mean
Image of A. A. Milne
Owl,' said Rabbit shortly, 'you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is easy thinking to be done in this Forest - and when I say thinking I mean thinking - you and I must do it.
- A. A. Milne
Collection: Mean
Image of Elie Wiesel
Every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.
- Elie Wiesel
Collection: Mean
Image of Alanis Morissette
When someone has a very urgent response, I think it just means that it's triggering something in them that they may not necessarily want to think or talk about - which I see as a positive thing.
- Alanis Morissette
Collection: Mean
Image of Larissa Ione
And, ah, who are you? What Horseman, I mean.” Thanatos swung around. “Death.” Cara swallowed. Audibly. “As in, the Grim Reaper?” He snorted. “That poser.
- Larissa Ione
Collection: Mean
Image of Donald Trump
I`ve been saying, even against me, the system is rigged. When I ran as a - well, for president, I could see what was going on with the system, and the system is rigged. What I`m saying is they`re not necessarily wrong. I mean, there are certainly people where unfortunately that comes into play. And I`m not saying that, I can really relate it very much to myself.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Mean
Image of Frank Zappa
You don't think I work 14 hours a day right now?! I mean, I still put in the hours, I still do the work.
- Frank Zappa
Collection: Mean
Image of Julian Baggini
People do care where their food, or other goods, comes from, not merely if the price is right. And that means no business can afford to ignore the impacts their buying practices have on producers and on the perceptions and choices of consumers.
- Julian Baggini
Collection: Mean