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Image of Sydney J. Harris
The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.
- Sydney J. Harris
Collection: Mean
Image of Adolf Hitler
I have been Europe's last hope. She proved incapable of refashioning herself by means of voluntary reform. She showed herself impervious to charm and persuasion. To take her I had to use violence. (26th February)
- Adolf Hitler
Collection: Mean
Image of Ernest Hemingway
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.
- Ernest Hemingway
Collection: Mean
Image of Jane Austen
What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.
- Jane Austen
Collection: Mean
Image of Laurell K. Hamilton
It means black kitten," I said with my pulse almost even again. Ares studied me. "And you're ok with them calling you their black kitten?" "They're wererats, Ares," I said. He frowned at me. "They're not calling me their little black rat. Think it through.
- Laurell K. Hamilton
Collection: Mean
Image of Alexander Hamilton
By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it serves to vivify and invigorate the channels of industry, and to make them flow with greater activity and copiousness. The assiduous merchant, the laborious husbandman, the active mechanic, and the industrious manufacturer,-all orders of men, look forward with eager expectation and growing alacrity to this pleasing reward of their toils.
- Alexander Hamilton
Collection: Mean
Image of Joseph Heller
Sure, that's what I mean,' Doc Daneeka said. 'A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.' Yossarian knew what he meant. That's not what I meant,' Doc Daneeka said, as Yossarian began scratching his back.
- Joseph Heller
Collection: Mean
Image of Kathleen Hanna
I'm not sure Riot Grrrl would have been as big a deal if the Internet had existed back then. Because there's so much stuff on the Internet. People could have been like, oh, whatever, I'm going to go look at pictures of Barbie vaginas, you know what I mean? There's so many different things on the Internet, you read one article and then you read something linked off that article and you go down the rabbit hole.
- Kathleen Hanna
Collection: Mean
Image of Frank Herbert
Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations of archetypes, myth structures and self-understanding. It may be that the primary attraction of science fiction is that it helps us understand what it means to be human.
- Frank Herbert
Collection: Mean
Image of Robert A. Heinlein
It was equally imperative that this chain of reactions should always tend to dampen, to die out. It must not build up, or the uranium mass would explode within a time interval too short to be measured by any means whatsoever. Nor would there be anyone left to measure it.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Collection: Mean
Image of Nhat Hanh
Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, including personal contact and visits, images, sounds. By such means, awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world.
- Nhat Hanh
Collection: Mean
Image of Thomas Hobbes
The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.
- Thomas Hobbes
Collection: Mean
Image of Saint Augustine
If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.
- Saint Augustine
Collection: Mean
Image of Marya Hornbacher
I mean, we all know the dangers of starving, but bulimia? That can't be that bad. It's only bad when you get really thin. Who worries about bulimics? They're just gross.
- Marya Hornbacher
Collection: Mean
Image of Eric Hoffer
All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium.
- Eric Hoffer
Collection: Mean
Image of Eric Hoffer
Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.
- Eric Hoffer
Collection: Mean
Image of Jake Gyllenhaal
You know, it's flattering when there's a rumor that says I'm bisexual. It means I can play more kinds of roles. I'm open to whatever people want to call me. I've never really been attracted to men sexually, but I don't think I would be afraid of it if it happened.
- Jake Gyllenhaal
Collection: Mean
Image of James Hansen
The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade
- James Hansen
Collection: Mean
Image of Martin Heidegger
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
- Martin Heidegger
Collection: Mean
Image of David Hockney
Just because I’m cheeky, doesn’t mean I’m not serious
- David Hockney
Collection: Mean
Image of Fannie Lou Hamer
The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset this applecart. What I mean by that is, so many things are under the cover that will have to be swept out and shown to this whole world, not just to America. This thing they say of "the land of the free and the home of the brave" is all on paper.
- Fannie Lou Hamer
Collection: Mean
Image of Fannie Lou Hamer
I was in jail when Medgar Evers was murdered and nothing, I mean nothing has been done about that.
- Fannie Lou Hamer
Collection: Mean
Image of Bashar al-Assad
Opposition doesn't mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.
- Bashar al-Assad
Collection: Mean
Image of Bashar al-Assad
You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. So the core issue is how to open the mind, the whole society, and this means everybody in society including everyone. I am not talking about the state or average or common people. I am talking about everybody; because when you close your mind as an official you cannot upgrade and vice versa.
- Bashar al-Assad
Collection: Mean
Image of Kristin Hannah
Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing.
- Kristin Hannah
Collection: Mean
Image of John Hodgman
I don't really collect anything. I mean, if I see a piece of Moxie soda memorabilia, I'll probably buy it. I'm a sucker for regional soda brands and forgotten histories and that sort of thing.
- John Hodgman
Collection: Mean
Image of John Hodgman
Just because you see an iceberg does not mean that there isn't global warming.
- John Hodgman
Collection: Mean
Image of Robert Hass
What Simone Weil said politics has meant all along, which means that you fight for 11 percent, 12 percent, 13 percent, that you avoid golden-age thinking and romantic melancholy and you just keep pushing.
- Robert Hass
Collection: Mean
Image of Robert Hass
I don't know that I had a sense that there was such a thing as "the poetry world" in the 1960s and early 70s. Maybe poets did, but for me as an onlooker and reader of poetry, poetry felt like it was part of a larger literary world. I mean, even the phrase "the poetry world" reflects a sort of balkanization of American literary and artistic life that has to some extent happened since then.
- Robert Hass
Collection: Mean
Image of Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you can bow in front of the justice at the height of your power, it means that you are really a just person!
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Collection: Mean
Image of Daniel Handler
An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented.
- Daniel Handler
Collection: Mean
Image of Bill Ayers
Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.
- Bill Ayers
Collection: Mean
Image of Yukimi Nagano
Partly I think it's always a challenge to travel a lot. If I could choose to never travel again but still do all my shows - I mean, who wouldn't want to do that? That's the work aspect of it. Maybe people don't think about it this way, but it makes it feel like a job when you're playing late and getting up really early for a lobby call, and flying around.
- Yukimi Nagano
Collection: Mean
Image of Yukimi Nagano
For us, as artists, our goal isn't to forever try to play at the biggest venue ever. Our goal is to make music and keep pushing ourselves creatively, whether it gets attention or not. If we get to do that without being broke? That's our goal. And that may not mean that's going to result in us playing the biggest venue in the world.
- Yukimi Nagano
Collection: Mean
Image of Yukimi Nagano
Have your own definition of success. Figure it out for yourself. If you really want to be the next Rihanna or whatever you've got to understand what that takes. Or if you want to be the Brian Eno - or whatever it is - who knows? Define for yourself what success means.
- Yukimi Nagano
Collection: Mean
Image of Marcus Aurelius
Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where we are able to get profit by means of the activity which is successful and proceeds according to our constitution, there no harm is to be suspected.
- Marcus Aurelius
Collection: Mean
Image of Nhat Hanh
Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.
- Nhat Hanh
Collection: Mean
Image of Emmylou Harris
Yes, I always say that were a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to sing. So I always call our drummer up. Even the drummer has to take a turn on the microphone.
- Emmylou Harris
Collection: Mean
Image of Adolf Hitler
Thank the Lord, Germanic democracy means just this: that any old climber or moral slacker cannot rise by devious paths to govern his national comrades, but that, by the very greatness of the responsibility to be assumed, incompetents and weaklings are frightened of.
- Adolf Hitler
Collection: Mean
Image of Lord Acton
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition...The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
- Lord Acton
Collection: Mean
Image of David Ben-Gurion
When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.
- David Ben-Gurion
Collection: Mean
Image of William Gurnall
God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify corruption, obtain comfort in their own mint: 'Who hath required this at your hands?' This is truly to be 'righteous over-much,' as Solomon speaks, when we will pretend to correct God's law, and add supplements of our own to his rule.
- William Gurnall
Collection: Mean
Image of Paul Auster
Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it.
- Paul Auster
Collection: Mean
Image of Kate Hudson
Alec Baldwin is an incredible... I mean this guy is a tour de force when you talk about people that are generous and available and somebody you could approach and I have ideas.
- Kate Hudson
Collection: Mean
Image of Edith Hamilton
Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)
- Edith Hamilton
Collection: Mean
Image of Alexander Hamilton
If the maintenance of public credit, then, be truly important, the next enquiry which suggests itself is, by what means it is to be effected? The ready answer to which question is, by good faith, by a punctual performance of contracts. States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.
- Alexander Hamilton
Collection: Mean
Image of Nhat Hanh
While washing dishes one should be washing the dishes, which means that while washing the dishes one should be completely aware of the fact that one is washing dishes.
- Nhat Hanh
Collection: Mean
Image of Stephen Hawking
In A Brief History Of Time I used the word "God" like Einstein did as a shorthand for the laws of physics. However, this is not what most people mean by God, so I have decided not to use the term. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a God.
- Stephen Hawking
Collection: Mean
Image of Dustin Hoffman
I think one of the things you have to be aware of as an actor is that if you come on the set and see the director standing there mouthing all the words while a scene is going on, that's usually a very bad sign because it means the director has already shot the scene in his head. He knows exactly the rhythm and the nuances that he wants delivered in the line and you're not going to dissuade him.
- Dustin Hoffman
Collection: Mean