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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Mean
Image of Diana Gabaldon
A cold supper, were you thinking? I asked dubiously. I was not, he said firmly, I mean to light a roaring fire in the kitchen hearth, fry up a dozen eggs in butter, and eat them all, then lay ye down on the hearth rug and roger ye 'till you - is that all right? he inquired, noticing my look. 'Til I what? I asked fascinated by his description of the evening's program. 'Til ye burst into flame and take me with ye, I suppose, he said, and stooping, swooped me up into his arms and carried me across the darkened threshold.
- Diana Gabaldon
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Image of Diana Gabaldon
To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.
- Diana Gabaldon
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Image of William Goldman
I am your Prince and you will marry me," Humperdinck said. Buttercup whispered, "I am your servant and I refuse." "I am you Prince and you cannot refuse." "I am your loyal servant and I just did." "Refusal means death." "Kill me then.
- William Goldman
Collection: Mean
Image of Andre Gide
The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
- Andre Gide
Collection: Mean
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Mean
Image of Billy Graham
If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.
- Billy Graham
Collection: Mean
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Mean
Image of David Graeber
The difference between capitalism and feudalism is that under capitalism, they make money directly through wages, manufacturing, and commerce and under feudalism, it's directly through juro-political means.
- David Graeber
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
As the means, so the end.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of John Green
The thing about That Guy Is a Gigolo,' Radar says, 'I mean, the thing about it as a game, is that in the end it reveals a lot more about the person doing the imagining than it does about the person being imagined.
- John Green
Collection: Mean
Image of Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Everyone has a unique perspective and that's valid. Everyone's perspective is valid. That doesn't mean that everyone has the same degree of skill level as an entertainer, but skill isn't the only important thing. It's also what kind of perspective and feelings you're bringing to it.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Collection: Mean
Image of Malcolm Gladwell
Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions... by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.
- Malcolm Gladwell
Collection: Mean
Image of Seth Godin
Quality is not an absolute measure. It doesn't mean 'deluxeness' or 'perfection'. It means keeping the promise the customer wants you to make.
- Seth Godin
Collection: Mean
Image of Pope Francis
I wish to extend an invitation to solidarity to everyone, and I would like to encourage those in public office to make every effort to give new impetus to employment, this means caring for the dignity of the person, but above all I would say do not lose hope.
- Pope Francis
Collection: Mean
Image of Elizabeth Gaskell
What could he mean by speaking so, as if I were always thinking that he cared for me, when I know he does not; he cannot. ... But I won't care for him. I surely am mistress enough of myself to control this wild, strange, miserable feeling
- Elizabeth Gaskell
Collection: Mean
Image of Ben Gibbard
I can remember how I sang - a little more nasal-y back then. Listening to those old recordings is like seeing a photograph of yourself from 10 years ago. You're wearing what you thought looked cool at the time. You had your hair styled the particular way you thought looked cool. It's an accurate depiction of who you were and what you looked and sounded like at that point in your life. It doesn't necessarily mean that it aged in a way that it feels as cool or sounds as good to you, or says what you thought it said, 10 years later. That's just the nature of growing older.
- Ben Gibbard
Collection: Mean
Image of Bill Gates
Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.
- Bill Gates
Collection: Mean
Image of Germaine Greer
Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.
- Germaine Greer
Collection: Mean
Image of Pope Francis
Going out to others in order to reach the fringes of humanity does not mean rushing out aimlessly into the world. Often it is better simply to slow down, to put aside our eagerness in order to see and listen to others, to stop rushing from one thing to another and to remain with someone who has faltered along the way.
- Pope Francis
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Image of Jean-Luc Godard
Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it. - Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.
- Jean-Luc Godard
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Image of Dick Gregory
Revolution ain't nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature. So when old folks tell me that they don't understand hip hop and the music is too loud, well I guess it means you're not supposed to be in there.
- Dick Gregory
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Image of E. M. Forster
It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.
- E. M. Forster
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Image of Emily Giffin
Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.
- Emily Giffin
Collection: Mean
Image of Antonin Artaud
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.
- Antonin Artaud
Collection: Mean
Image of Aristotle
One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.
- Aristotle
Collection: Mean
Image of Hannah Arendt
Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.
- Hannah Arendt
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Image of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Image of John Green
There are at least two distinct meanings of 'hot': there is the, like, normal human definition which is that 'this individual seems suitable for mating'. And then there's the weird, culturally constructed definition of 'hot' which means, 'that individual is malnourished and has probably had plastic bags inserted into her breasts'. Like, I think if you went back to the 18th century and asked a 15-year-old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?' that 15-year-old boy would probably be like ... 'What's plastic?'
- John Green
Collection: Mean
Image of Vincent Van Gogh
I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying, 'I know all about it. I've already found it.' As far as I'm concerned, the word means, 'I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.'
- Vincent Van Gogh
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Image of Ginnifer Goodwin
Oh my gosh, I’d give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it’s going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I’ve already forgotten.
- Ginnifer Goodwin
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Kinky Friedman
My plan is to bring back like the Bracero Program from 1944 that ran for 20 years where the Mexican government vets these people. I mean, they pay for it, and they get green cards, and they're actually legitimate. And then seal the border.
- Kinky Friedman
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Image of Lady Gaga
Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner, you want to be like yourself. I want my fans to know it's okay.
- Lady Gaga
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Image of Aristotle
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
- Aristotle
Collection: Mean
Image of Aristotle
Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.
- Aristotle
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Image of John Green
But why Alaska?' I asked her. 'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut word, Alyeska. It means 'that which the sea breaks against,' and I love that. But at the time, I just saw Alaska up there. And it was big, just like I wanted to be.
- John Green
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Chuck Grassley
We had global warming between 1940 and 1998. Since then, we haven't had a rise in temperature. That doesn't mean we don't have a problem. If that problem is going to be solved, it ought to be solved by an international treaty.
- Chuck Grassley
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Image of William Goldman
Now what happens?" asked the man in black. "We face each other as God intended," Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone." "You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that it?
- William Goldman
Collection: Mean
Image of William Goldman
I just know once you're over your emotional outbursts, you'll come up with-' I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something,' Westley said.
- William Goldman
Collection: Mean
Image of William Goldman
I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.
- William Goldman
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Image of Erich Fromm
I understand by socialism a society in which the aim of production is not profit, but the use. In which the individual citizen participates responsibly in his work, and in the whole social organization, and in which he is not a means who is employed by capital.
- Erich Fromm
Collection: Mean
Image of Erich Fromm
We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.
- Erich Fromm
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Image of John Fowles
I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel.
- John Fowles
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Image of Christopher Michael Cillizza
Being freaked out doesn't mean you can fix what you perceive to be the problem.
- Christopher Michael Cillizza
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Image of Temple Grandin
Giving those animals [in shelter] quality time - now, I have been in some of the shelters where the cats have been in group housing. Well if you have a cat that never gets out of sternal recumbency, now what that means is that [inaudible] - that's a stressed cat. If they lay on their side, then they are not stressed out.
- Temple Grandin
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Image of Mel Gibson
I do what I can to sort of just stave off the clock - walk, swim, try and smoke an electric cigarette. I mean it's all bad for you. Life is bad. We're all dying. We're all in the process of oxidizing. Everyone of us is in the process of oxidizing so to sort of interrupt one aspect of that while everything else goes on, it's a freak show.
- Mel Gibson
Collection: Mean