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Image of Margaret Atwood
I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will.
- Margaret Atwood
Collection: Mean
Image of James Hansen
The 5-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing.
- James Hansen
Collection: Mean
Image of Martin Heidegger
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence of technology will open itself up to us. It is the realm of revealing, i.e., of truth
- Martin Heidegger
Collection: Mean
Image of Bashar al-Assad
[It is important] to have stability and to have security, which means humanitarian equals fighting terrorists. You cannot talk about humanitarian aid and supporting the terrorists at the same time. You cannot, you have to choose.
- Bashar al-Assad
Collection: Mean
Image of Adolf Hitler
Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years.
- Adolf Hitler
Collection: Mean
Image of Werner Herzog
It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.
- Werner Herzog
Collection: Mean
Image of Napoleon Hill
By all means tell the world how good you are - but do it with actions, not words.
- Napoleon Hill
Collection: Mean
Image of Chelsea Handler
It's good that people don't like you. That's good. It means that you are doing something interesting.
- Chelsea Handler
Collection: Mean
Image of Kristin Hannah
Popularity means people think they know you.
- Kristin Hannah
Collection: Mean
Image of Martin Heidegger
To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.
- Martin Heidegger
Collection: Mean
Image of Ernest Hemingway
The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.
- Ernest Hemingway
Collection: Mean
Image of Marya Hornbacher
So many means of self-destruction, so little time.
- Marya Hornbacher
Collection: Mean
Image of Bill Ayers
We're actually saying, here's a principle that I'd like to arc toward. That's a very different role in life. I didn't expect [Barack] Obama to go to the root of things. I didn't expect him to have a principled position on anything. I mean, just pay some moderate attention to the guy.
- Bill Ayers
Collection: Mean
Image of George Harrison
Chanting Hare Krishna is really the same sort of thing as meditation, but I think it has a quicker effect. I mean, even if you put your beads down, you can still say the mantra or sing it without actually keeping track on your beads.
- George Harrison
Collection: Mean
Image of Christopher Hitchens
There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.
- Christopher Hitchens
Collection: Mean
Image of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, madefor--things that give and mean to give God glory.
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Collection: Mean
Image of Kim Harrison
Your welcome means more to me, Ivy Alisha Tamwood, than a thousand souls. Watching Rachel work is a wonder of one catastrophe after another.
- Kim Harrison
Collection: Mean
Image of Mark Haddon
Siobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose it can mean that you are relaxed, or that you are bored, or that you are angry and it all depends on how much air comes out of your nose and how fast and what shape your mouth is when you do it and how you are sitting and what you just said before and hundreds of other things which are too complicated to work out in a few seconds.
- Mark Haddon
Collection: Mean
Image of Mark Haddon
People say that you always have to tell the truth. But they do not mean this because you are not allowed to tell old people that they are old and you are not allowed to tell people if they smell funny or if a grown-up has made a fart. And you are not allowed to say, 'I don't like you,' unless that person has been horrible to you.
- Mark Haddon
Collection: Mean
Image of Saint Augustine
While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.
- Saint Augustine
Collection: Mean
Image of Tom Hodgkinson
When people say " I just don't have enough time " they mean " I prioritized something else.
- Tom Hodgkinson
Collection: Mean
Image of Lorraine Hansberry
Beneatha: You didn't tell us what Alaiyo means... for all I know, you might be calling me Little Idiot or something... ... Asagai: It means... it means One for Whom Bread--Food--Is Not Enough.
- Lorraine Hansberry
Collection: Mean
Image of Andre Vltchek
"Democracy" means nothing else other than, "rule of the people", in Greek. There is nothing democratic about the political concepts of the United States and Europe.
- Andre Vltchek
Collection: Mean
Image of Adolf Hitler
Imagine me going around with a pot belly. It would mean political ruin.
- Adolf Hitler
Collection: Mean
Image of W. H. Auden
Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.
- W. H. Auden
Collection: Mean
Image of W. H. Auden
To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.
- W. H. Auden
Collection: Mean
Image of Alexander Hamilton
There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.
- Alexander Hamilton
Collection: Mean
Image of Nhat Hanh
Loving ourselves means loving our community. When we are capable of loving ourselves, nourishing ourselves properly, not intoxicating ourselves, we are already protecting and nourishing society.
- Nhat Hanh
Collection: Mean
Image of Margaret Atwood
We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction.
- Margaret Atwood
Collection: Mean
Image of Gordon B. Hinckley
We must build more temples, and we must build them more quickly. This is the season to build temples. They are needed, and we have the means to do so. The Lord will hold us accountable if we do not work with greater accomplishment than we are now doing.
- Gordon B. Hinckley
Collection: Mean
Image of Amanda Hocking
Just because we don't understand why they'd cover up something doesn't mean they aren't," Bobby said, and we both turned to look at him. "Now you just sound paranoid," I said. "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you," Bobby said with an expression so serious that I couldn't help but laugh.
- Amanda Hocking
Collection: Mean
Image of Abbie Hoffman
..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing about doin' that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.
- Abbie Hoffman
Collection: Mean
Image of Paul Auster
I wanted to do something different. Therefore, the first person I thought would have been too exclusionary. It would have said me, me, me, me, me. I, I, I, I, I. As if I were pushing away my experiences from the experiences of others. Because basically what I was trying to do was show our commonality. I mean to say, in the very ordinariness of what I recount I think perhaps the reader will find resonances with his or her own life.
- Paul Auster
Collection: Mean
Image of Hermann Hesse
All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the All.
- Hermann Hesse
Collection: Mean
Image of Rutherford B. Hayes
I am succeeding very well so far with my legging, but it is a very mean business for a man that has been well brought up to engage in. It is the only way to get a bill from Cincinnati through, so it must be done.
- Rutherford B. Hayes
Collection: Mean
Image of David Attenborough
You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people on Earth as there were when I started making television. How can the Earth accommodate them? When people, including politicians, set their faces against looking at the consequences-it's just unbelievable that anyone could ignore it.
- David Attenborough
Collection: Mean
Image of Nicholas Stoller
And there's so much extra material. I mean, I've certainly read as you asked about do I read reviews and stuff, like people are like none of the jokes in the trailers are like in the movie. And it's like and we have whole sequences and scenes that weren't in the movie.
- Nicholas Stoller
Collection: Mean
Image of Marcus Aurelius
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
- Marcus Aurelius
Collection: Mean
Image of Jane Austen
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.
- Jane Austen
Collection: Mean
Image of Sue Thoele
I was struck by the fact that I hadn't been awed in a while. Did that mean awesome things had disappeared from my life? No. What it did mean was that I'd gotten too caught up in distractions and mind mucking to recognize anything as awe-inspiring. . . . I hadn't been paying attention to the beauty around me.
- Sue Thoele
Collection: Mean
Image of Chris Abani
I didn't leave Africa, I left Nigeria, and for political reasons. But ... I've never, never left Africa, and I certainly never left what it means to be Ibo. That is something you carry with you.
- Chris Abani
Collection: Mean
Image of Saint Augustine
"Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole of our need under the name of bread, which is the outstanding part of it, or for the sacrament of the faithful, which is necessary at this time for attaining not so much this temporal as that eternal happiness.
- Saint Augustine
Collection: Mean
Image of Daniel Handler
As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing on Earth I would rather do less.' [...]
- Daniel Handler
Collection: Mean
Image of Daniel Handler
Every night I give a violin recital for six hours, and attendance is mandatory. The word 'mandatory' means that if you don't show up, you have to buy me a large bag of candy and watch me eat it.
- Daniel Handler
Collection: Mean
Image of Alexander Hamilton
It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our political regeneration.
- Alexander Hamilton
Collection: Mean
Image of Laurell K. Hamilton
Vampires can live a very long time, theoretically forever, which means their idea of getting down to business can be damn leisurely.
- Laurell K. Hamilton
Collection: Mean
Image of Laurell K. Hamilton
Now that's an Okay that really means Okay, not that Okay that women use that means everything but Okay.
- Laurell K. Hamilton
Collection: Mean
Image of Nathaniel Hawthorne
But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame, wretches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes. It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Collection: Mean
Image of Taraji P. Henson
It's an important moment [win an Emmy]. I just feel like I want it to happen tonight, either for myself or Viola [Davis] so we can get past it, so it's not big news anymore. I mean, it is 2015. We have a black president.
- Taraji P. Henson
Collection: Mean