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Image of Theodor Adorno
Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.
- Theodor Adorno
Collection: Mean
Image of Melina Marchetta
Don't let anyone take care of you. Can you maybe leave that for me to do? I mean, take care of you? Feel free to take care of me in return... because I think I'll need you to do that.
- Melina Marchetta
Collection: Mean
Image of Swami Vivekananda
Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that.
- Swami Vivekananda
Collection: Mean
Image of John Ruskin
The word "Blue" does not mean the sensation caused by a gentian on the human eye; but it means the power of producing that sensation: and this power is always there, in the thing, whether we are there to experience it or not, and would remain there though there were not a man left on the face of the earth.
- John Ruskin
Collection: Mean
Image of John Ruskin
Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in love and in faith; but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in way but as it ought.
- John Ruskin
Collection: Mean
Image of Will Rogers
We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.
- Will Rogers
Collection: Mean
Image of Kristen Stewart
In personal conversations between director and actor, the male directors that I've worked with are just as emotional. Maybe it's because I had to start having very intimate conversations with adult men at a very young age in order to get the work, but I'm really comfortable with dudes. I mean, we push boundaries in this business in terms of getting to know people.
- Kristen Stewart
Collection: Mean
Image of Eddie Vedder
I'm really high... I mean the altitude of course.
- Eddie Vedder
Collection: Mean
Image of Andy Stanley
As you give to fund God's needs, are you forced to trust Him to provide for yours? That's what a growing faith is about. And over the long haul, it's not enough just to commit to a percentage. Growth means reviewing your giving goals and occasionally increasing the percentage you give.
- Andy Stanley
Collection: Mean
Image of Shel Silverstein
If you're nasty, I won't fight. If you're rough, well that's just you. If you're mean, that's alright too. Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway.
- Shel Silverstein
Collection: Mean
Image of Edward Abbey
When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.
- Edward Abbey
Collection: Mean
Image of John Steinbeck
There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that's the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln.
- John Steinbeck
Collection: Mean
Image of John Steinbeck
When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.
- John Steinbeck
Collection: Mean
Image of Evan Rachel Wood
I literally cried on Lisa Joy's shoulder when it ended. Just, "Thank you." Because those roles [like Dolores in the Westworld] are few and far between. What an amazing opportunity. It was an honor and a privilege to get to bring it to life, and I hope she gives other people the strength that she's given me as a survivor and as a human. I don't even mean to make it just a woman's issue because obviously it's men and women, but it certainly is an epidemic with women.
- Evan Rachel Wood
Collection: Mean
Image of Andrew Vachss
A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.
- Andrew Vachss
Collection: Mean
Image of Andrew Vachss
Most investigators don't even know what the word means. You stop the cops from using informants and the only crimes they'd ever solve would be those by deranged postal workers who come to work once too often.
- Andrew Vachss
Collection: Mean
Image of Richard J. Foster
Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines against service but screams against hidden service. It strains and pulls for honour and recognition. It will devise subtle, religiously acceptable means to call attention to the service rendered. If we stoutly refuse to give in to this lust of the flesh, we crucify it. Every time we crucify the flesh, we crucify our pride and arrogance.
- Richard J. Foster
Collection: Mean
Image of Ben Stein
Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.
- Ben Stein
Collection: Mean
Image of Julie James
I heard this theory once that love means your subconscious is attracted to someone else’s subconscious.
- Julie James
Collection: Mean
Image of J. D. Salinger
Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy?
- J. D. Salinger
Collection: Mean
Image of John Shelby Spong
One of my professors said to me once, "Any god that can be killed off will be killed, but if I can shake up your faith in your god, it means you already don't have much of a god."
- John Shelby Spong
Collection: Mean
Image of Maurice Sendak
Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.
- Maurice Sendak
Collection: Mean
Image of John Wooden
The leader has to command the respect of all those under his supervision - and he must be open to those under his supervision. Effective leadership means having a lot of people working toward a common goal. And when you have that with no one caring who gets the credit, you're going to accomplish a lot. If you have those just wanting the credit for themselves, you're not going to get as much accomplished.
- John Wooden
Collection: Mean
Image of Nancy Reagan
Just because you're married [to the president] doesn't mean you've given up your right to have and opinion.
- Nancy Reagan
Collection: Mean
Image of Joseph Stiglitz
Moreover, because we chose to finance the way by borrowing, our deficits and debt has soared, and this means we have less room for maneuver, less money available to stimulate the eocnomy in the way needed.
- Joseph Stiglitz
Collection: Mean
Image of Barack Obama
This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Mean
Image of Neil deGrasse Tyson
You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why?
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Collection: Mean
Image of Robert M. Pirsig
What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word 'quality' cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Collection: Mean
Image of Ayn Rand
One's own independent judgment is the means by which one must choose one's actions, but it is not a moral criterion nor a moral validation; only reference to a demonstrable principle can validate one's choices.
- Ayn Rand
Collection: Mean
Image of Ayn Rand
Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.
- Ayn Rand
Collection: Mean
Image of Ayn Rand
The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.
- Ayn Rand
Collection: Mean
Image of Julie James
Hopefully when he moved his things out of the apartment, he at least took his CDs. I mean, we might be gay, but… Enya? Really?
- Julie James
Collection: Mean
Image of John Wooden
Fairness is giving all people the treatment they earn and deserve. It doesn't mean treating everyone alike.
- John Wooden
Collection: Mean
Image of Karen Marie Moning
The two of you are getting downright chatty, aren't you, Ms. Lane? When did you last see him? what else did he tell you? I'm asking the questions tonight. If an illusion of control comforts you, Ms. Lane, by all means, cling to it.
- Karen Marie Moning
Collection: Mean
Image of Karen Marie Moning
You mean you have to be epic already, for it to make you more epic?
- Karen Marie Moning
Collection: Mean
Image of Martha Beck
Welcoming imperfection is the way to accomplish what perfectionism promises but never delivers. It gives us our best performance and genuine acceptance in the family of human -- and by that I mean imperfect -- beings.
- Martha Beck
Collection: Mean
Image of Martha Beck
We can’t save ourselves from fear by seeking safety, because safety always means there’s something to be safe from-in other words, something to fear. The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.
- Martha Beck
Collection: Mean
Image of Seth Rogen
It's just kind of seemed like a funny way to explore action movies, I guess. I mean, I'm a big fan of them always. It's always people who are very equipped to deal with the situations that they're thrown in. So, the notion just seemed funny, because it's, like, basically stoners are kind of the last guys in the world who are equipped to deal with that. And the humor possibilities just seemed somewhat endless.
- Seth Rogen
Collection: Mean
Image of Seth Rogen
One of the big things that we wanted to do was trying to kick out a car window as you're driving after it's been shattered obstructing your view. I mean, that's - I can't count how many movies I've seen that in, and we just thought, you know, like, it could be funny if it just kind of goes wrong and this foot just kind of punctures through the window and gets stuck.
- Seth Rogen
Collection: Mean
Image of Seth Rogen
To me, when there's movies that are about, you know, guys named Hell Boy, and you know, the issue that they have with our movie that she doesn't get an abortion, I mean, I think there's greater suspensions of disbelief.
- Seth Rogen
Collection: Mean
Image of Howard Zinn
I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president — which means, in our time, a dangerous president — unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction.
- Howard Zinn
Collection: Mean
Image of Mitt Romney
It is essential for America to understand what our mission is in Iran, and that is to dissuade Iran from having a nuclear weapon through peaceful and diplomatic means.
- Mitt Romney
Collection: Mean
Image of Eric Schmidt
Since I have access to every, every crisis in the world because it's always blaring at me on cable television, that doesn't mean I have to worry about every one of them. This is also known as knowing where the 'off' button is.
- Eric Schmidt
Collection: Mean
Image of Pope Benedict XVI
The Faith does not mean an alienation from any culture for any people because all cultures await Christ and are not destroyed by the Lord. In fact, they reach their maturity.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Collection: Mean
Image of Czeslaw Milosz
Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At the same time, though, he feels that those old means of expression are not adequate to his own experience.
- Czeslaw Milosz
Collection: Mean
Image of Neill Blomkamp
The fact that natural selection and evolution crafted essentially carbon and water into a mechanism that can think and be conscious means there's nothing in physics that says you cannot do that to a greater degree.
- Neill Blomkamp
Collection: Mean
Image of Adam Schiff
The president [Barack Obama] is not willing to send in apaches and spotters if the Iraqis say they don't want them and if it means that these Shia mobilization forces are going to be going after and trying to kill Americans.
- Adam Schiff
Collection: Mean
Image of Therese of Lisieux
He longs to give us a magnificent reward. He knows that suffering is the only means of preparing us to know Him as He knows Himself, and to become ourselves divine.
- Therese of Lisieux
Collection: Mean
Image of Sean Paul
[On] 'Sufferer,' I'm talking about the younger generation that has no other option for success than to find a gun somewhere. I try to appeal to them: 'I know you a sufferer, but it doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't expect any better.' It's a lot different than from what I usually say, like, 'Get busy, shake that thing.'
- Sean Paul
Collection: Mean