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Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although often they turn out the sameCollection: Mean
We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'.Collection: Mean
It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.Collection: Mean
Just because a thing can't be done doesn't mean it can't be did. We all look into mirrors and see phantoms. Our error is our Eros. Why is there something instead of nothing? The answer is reckless and surreal.Collection: Mean
Positive doesn't mean unflawed: It means human and vulnerable. If you make a film and you're portraying the subject with respect, you're gonna do it in an honest way.Collection: Mean
If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morality of the gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted: I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God.Collection: Mean
The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday.Collection: Mean
Because it's possible to do, and you have the right to do it, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.Collection: Mean
Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections.Collection: Mean
Just because a marriage ended didn't mean that it hadn't been happy at times.Collection: Mean
The symbol in Chinese for crisis is made up of two ideographs: one means danger, the other means opportunity. This symbol is a reminder that we can choose to turn a crisis into an opportunity or into a negative experience.Collection: Mean
I don't know, I don't pay attention to critics anyway. They either like me or they don't, you know what I mean? I am too long in the tooth to worry about that.Collection: Mean
Life is a challenge that you need. There's things in life that are going to throw you into the ground, but if you learn how to get up, that means you are not a quitter.Collection: Mean
When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time.Collection: Mean
Effective learning means arriving at new power, and the consciousness of new power is one of the most stimulating things in life.Collection: Mean
Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuingCollection: Mean
I really think it's extremely important for Americans to better understand China. And by better, I mean don't just read their lines. You've got to dig down to find out what's going on, and come over, see China.Collection: Mean
No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.Collection: Mean
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.Collection: Mean
Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers. It allows articulation to enter where silence once ruled.Collection: Mean
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideasCollection: Mean
A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life.Collection: Mean
We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just because natural selection created us doesn't mean we have to slavishly follow its peculiar agenda. (If anything, we might be tempted to spite it for all the ridiculous baggage it's saddled us with.)Collection: Mean
Sometimes I think he’s the kind of friend that grownups call a ‘fair-weather friend.’ That means when everything’s going smoothly, he’s the best friend a guy could want. But as soon as something goes wrong…(he) sort of turns on you.Collection: Mean
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.Collection: Mean
I'm not sure what it would mean to have "made it." Made what? Yes, I can make a decent living in show business, so if that's the criteria, then I've made it. But that doesn't feel that important to me. The stuff that matters to me are the new challenges. I know that sounds hokey, but it's true.Collection: Mean
Because I'm dangerous. I don't mean to be but I am. I'm dangerous to be around, dangerous to everybody. I cause harm. I might even harm you. And I couldn't bear that.Collection: Mean
Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process.Collection: Mean
Someone once said, 'That place is engulfed in darkness'- however that does in no way mean that there was never any light.Collection: Mean
Just wearing the corset means that you can never really relax from the moment that you put it on. So, there's a constant sort of strain and you have to hold yourself in a certain way. It's very uncomfortable. But again you instantly understand the repression that women feel and how much they were captives. It's sort of sad really.Collection: Mean
Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.Collection: Mean
The Mass-and I mean every single Mass-is heaven on earth. Literally.Collection: Mean
As Carol Dweck says, “Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. It would be an impoverished existence if you were not willing to value things and commit yourself to working toward them.Collection: Mean
Knowing that Ricky Gervais will never work again means a lot to me. I'm going to make sure of it.Collection: Mean
Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?" My locker door is not intimidated. "My grandfather was a vault at Fort Knox, and if you try to dent me with a kick you will only tear some ligament that will never mend.Collection: Mean
Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the friable nests of birds, completely intact and unharmed on the ground. That the featherweight survive the massive, that this reversal of fortune takes place among us — that is what haunts me. I don’t know what it means.Collection: Mean
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.Collection: Mean
Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize mare died; ma'alesh, you lost all your possessions and half your family. The word was the everyday essence of Islam - which itself, after all, means "submission.Collection: Mean
What does it mean, to lose one's mind? Where does it go? If a man is out of his mind, where is he? What is insane when the world is mad by contrast?Collection: Mean
Our subconscious works in metaphors, stories, and word play. That's why a particular story or movie may mean more to some people than to others. Have you considered why you quest for this tale now?Collection: Mean
Big L is my favorite rapper of all time. He got killed quite a few years ago now but I think he's amazing and he kind of inspires me like his style inspires me. I don't think there's been anyone better since. I mean, Biggie Smalls is definitely on the top of the list but Big L is like the underdog, I like to give him the edge.Collection: Mean
True interest appears when the self identifies itself with ideas or objects, when it finds in them a means of expression and they become a necessary form of fuel for its activity.Collection: Mean
Maybe that's what is means to be human . . . forever questioning our certainties.Collection: Mean
Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically means to be continually amazed.Collection: Mean
All simple souls must admire and respect one another, saying: 'Let us proceed each one along our path to the same goal, united in purpose and by means of God's order which, in its great variety, is in us all.Collection: Mean
Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. It means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. It’s basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult. Being a geek is extremely liberating.Collection: Mean
Being a geek means you never have to play it cool about how much you like something.Collection: Mean
I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.Collection: Mean