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Image of Winston Churchill
I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas.
- Winston Churchill
Collection: Mean
Image of Anthony Burgess
For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth wilfully refuse the means of grace offered.
- Anthony Burgess
Collection: Mean
Image of William McDonough
So when you see a regulation against lead, because lead is a bad in a regulators mind, what does that mean? You are not telling us what is good, you are just tell us what you don't want, not what you do want.
- William McDonough
Collection: Mean
Image of Joseph Campbell
Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.
- Joseph Campbell
Collection: Mean
Image of Michael Buble
I'm not a jazz musician, because, I mean, firstly, I can't play anything. I'm not bad on the tamborine. I have a certain way with the triangle. But I'm not a jazz musician ... my band, they always joke, they always say that I'm a disposable, pop, jazz superstar.
- Michael Buble
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Image of Brian Tracy
Express your admiration for the traits, possessions or accomplishments of your customer. Little things mean a lot.
- Brian Tracy
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Image of Johnny Cash
Being rich means you get to worry about everything except money.
- Johnny Cash
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Image of Steve Case
I do think that people have an obligation to give back but that doesn't necessarily mean that you give back just the traditional way. Maybe there's new ways to give back and make a contribution. I'm looking forward to some mix of philanthropy - maybe through a somewhat different prism - as well as helping entrepreneurs build some significant new businesses.
- Steve Case
Collection: Mean
Image of Tenzin Palmo
To be enlightened doesn't mean you end up stupefied and unable to function.
- Tenzin Palmo
Collection: Mean
Image of Louie Giglio
But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.
- Louie Giglio
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Image of Oswald Chambers
We are so busy telling God where we would like to go. We wait with the idea of some great opportunity, something sensational, and when it comes we are quick to cry, 'Here am I.' Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference.
- Oswald Chambers
Collection: Mean
Image of Oswald Chambers
Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference
- Oswald Chambers
Collection: Mean
Image of Charlie Munger
If you have only a little capital and are young today, there are fewer opportunities than when I was young. Back then, we had just come out of a depression. Capitalism was a bad word. There had been abuses in the 1920s. A joke going around then was the guy who said, 'I bought stock for my old age and it worked - in six months, I feel like an old man!' "It's tougher for you, but that doesn't mean you won't do well - it just may take more time. But what the heck, you may live longer."
- Charlie Munger
Collection: Mean
Image of Oswald Chambers
If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means they are being purified.
- Oswald Chambers
Collection: Mean
Image of Nick Lowe
The idea was put to me, and my initial reaction was of slight sort of - I was slightly appalled, really, because in the U.K., we don't - we think it's all a bit vulgar, you know, doing Christmas or cashing in on Christmas. And there's a word we have for it, which is naff. And it's not exactly uncool. It really sort of means kind of vulgar and a bit - not very stylish.
- Nick Lowe
Collection: Mean
Image of Nick Lowe
I mean, the way I'm talking, it sounds like I'm - you know, I'm about to go out and sign up for the nearest seminary, and you'll never see or hear from me again. But it's a hard thing to talk about really 'cause I'm not at all sure myself about it. But I've got a very, very simple sort of outlook to it. Yeah, that's all I can say, really.
- Nick Lowe
Collection: Mean
Image of Nick Cave
I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily basis. I'm not really interested in writing musical diaries, if you know what I mean.
- Nick Cave
Collection: Mean
Image of Johnny Carson
Democracy means free television, not good television, but free.
- Johnny Carson
Collection: Mean
Image of John Calvin
If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.
- John Calvin
Collection: Mean
Image of John Calvin
To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.
- John Calvin
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Image of John Calvin
To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.
- John Calvin
Collection: Mean
Image of Noam Chomsky
Allowing an independent and sovereign Iraq could be a nightmare for the United States. It would mean that it would be Shi'ite-dominated, at least if it's minimally democratic. It would continue to improve relations with Iran, just what the United States doesn't want to see. And beyond that, right across the border in Saudi Arabia where most of Saudi oil is, there happens to be a large Shi'ite population, probably a majority.
- Noam Chomsky
Collection: Mean
Image of Paul Cezanne
One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the means of expression.
- Paul Cezanne
Collection: Mean
Image of George W. Bush
If you say, "Are you going to change your strategic objective?", it means you're leaving before the mission is complete, and we're not going to leave before the mission in Iraq is complete.
- George W. Bush
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Image of Winston Churchill
What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?
- Winston Churchill
Collection: Mean
Image of Sandra Cisneros
The older you get, the more power you have with language as a writer, which means that you have to be extra responsible for what you say, whether it's in print or in front of a microphone, because those words can go out and kill or go out and plant seeds for peace.
- Sandra Cisneros
Collection: Mean
Image of Bruce Schneier
This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by we, I mean the engineering community.
- Bruce Schneier
Collection: Mean
Image of Willa Cather
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.
- Willa Cather
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Image of Sharon Gannon
Lions and other carnivorous animals do eat meat, but that doesn't mean we should. They would die if they didn't eat meat. Human beings, in contrast, choose to eat meat; it isn't a physiological necessity.
- Sharon Gannon
Collection: Mean
Image of Emile M. Cioran
To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.
- Emile M. Cioran
Collection: Mean
Image of George W. Bush
I mean, there was a serious international effort to say to Saddam Hussein: 'You're a threat'. And the 9/11 attacks accentuated that threat, as far as I'm concerned.
- George W. Bush
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Image of Rhonda Byrne
Thoughts that bring about good feelings mean you are on the right track. Thoughts that bring about bad feelings means you are not on the right track.
- Rhonda Byrne
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Image of Edgar Mitchell
Entanglement can best be understood as this: When subatomic matter is in a process together, subsequently the subatomic particles go apart from each other and go across the universe. When they do this, they will remain entangled. That means if you do something to one, the other one responds immediately, instantaneously.
- Edgar Mitchell
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Image of Sergio Leone
The Jesuits use this kind of training, or, let's say it this way: The Jesuit General imposes this kind of structure; he encourages the young men to specialize. Because getting ten of them together, you have the best of everything. But this does not mean that this system is good for the Jesuits all over. They're all available to the cause.
- Sergio Leone
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Image of George W. Bush
Something that is completely unwinnable. I mean, it becomes unwinnable if we decide to leave [Afghanistan].
- George W. Bush
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Image of Paul Virilio
There are three bombs. The first one is the atomic bomb, which disintegrates reality, the second one is the digital or computer bomb, which destroys the principle of reality itself - not the actual object - and rebuilds it, and finally the third bomb is the demographic one. Some experts have found out that in five thousand years from now, the weight of the population will be heavier than the weight of the planet. That means that humanity will constitute a planet of its own!
- Paul Virilio
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Image of Nido R Qubein
To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you're capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire.
- Nido R Qubein
Collection: Mean
Image of Nido R Qubein
Say exactly what you mean. Enough said.
- Nido R Qubein
Collection: Mean
Image of Shane Claiborne
We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less greedy and less wasteful, gaining a fresh vision of what it means to love our global neighbor.
- Shane Claiborne
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Image of Agatha Christie
... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.
- Agatha Christie
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Image of James Turrell
The Meeting is actually like the Gunpowder Meeting, or some of the earlier American Quaker MeetingsThe long house form is something that was traditionthat's what I started with as an idea. But then making this in terms of the sizing and the use that was asked for by Live Oak Meeting- I mean it's a very traditional form, except it's convertible. The top opens, and it makes a sky space where sky is really brought down to you; your awareness of it is made quite different. It was a little bit of a novel idea, that it's a roof that opens.
- James Turrell
Collection: Mean
Image of William J. Clinton
If, two people have good minds and they're looking at problems, if they agree all the time it means one of them is not thinking. If they disagree all the time, it means one of them is not thinking. They're just allowing their political position to dictate their position on an issue. And I think that's unhealthy. And the public knows better.
- William J. Clinton
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Image of George Washington Carver
Unkindness to anything means an injustice to that thing. If I am unkind to you I do you an injustice, or wrong you in some way. On the other hand, if I try to assist you in every way that I can to make a better citizen and in every way to do my very best for you, I am kind to you. The above principles apply with equal force to the soil. The farmer whose soil produces less every year, is unkind to it in some way; that is, he is not doing by it what he should; he is robbing it of some substance it must have, and he becomes, therefore, a soil robber rather than a progressive farmer.
- George Washington Carver
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Image of George W. Bush
I'm oftentimes asked, What difference does it make to America if people are dying of malaria in a place like Ghana? It means a lot. It means a lot morally, it means a lot from a -- it's in our national interest.
- George W. Bush
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Image of Lord Chesterfield
Let your letter be written as accurately as you are able,--I mean with regard to language, grammar, and stops; for as to the matter of it the less trouble you give yourself the better it will be. Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.
- Lord Chesterfield
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Image of Muhammad Ali
Hittin' hard don't mean nothing if you don't find nothin' to hit.
- Muhammad Ali
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Image of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Image of Louis Auchincloss
Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It's by no means a battle lost. Yet.
- Louis Auchincloss
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Image of Bill Bryson
Before, prior to. There is no difference between these two except length and a certain affectedness on the part of 'prior to.' To paraphrase Bernstein, if you would use 'posterior to' instead of 'after,' then by all means use 'prior to' instead of 'before.
- Bill Bryson
Collection: Mean