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True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.Collection: Mean
I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned out my page every day, of some sort - I mean I didn't give a damn about the meaning, I just wanted to master the form - all the way from free verse, Walt Whitman, to the most elaborate of villanelles and ballad forms. Very good training. I've always told everybody who has ever come to me that I thought that was the first thing to do.Collection: Mean
Realistically, there is a danger, of course, when you're going into someone's living room as the same guy every week. But I don't fear it because, I mean, there's really nothing I can do about it. I can try to combat it through the work, and maybe make sure I don't do Sheldon 2.0 in any other projects. But it's just really hard for me to find any negative side effects from this experience.Collection: Mean
We do not increase compassion by expanding it to cover anything. Instead, we kill a good word by making it mean too much, and nothing.Collection: Mean
Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time - is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.Collection: Mean
Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter, by peaceful or revolutionary means, into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it.Collection: Mean
The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish.Collection: Mean
We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The politicians are preachers, and the preachers are politicians. The tax collectors collect for themselves. The Bad People want us to have more dough, and the good people are fighting to keep it from us. It's not good for us, know what I mean? If we had all we wanted to eat, we'd eat too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry. That's the way I understand it. That's about the size of some of the arguments I've heard.Collection: Mean
I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.Collection: Mean
When we speak of the Path we mean much more than a course of study. The Path is a way of life and on it the whole being must co-operate if the heights are to be won.Collection: Mean
To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.Collection: Mean
As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord.Collection: Mean
[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy, was purified upon his being baptized, but as an indication to us. For as we are lepers in sin, we are made clean by means of the sacred water and the invocation of the Lord from our old transgressions, being spiritually regenerated as new-born babes, even as the Lord has declared: "Except a man be born again through water and the Spirit, he shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.Collection: Mean
Everything in the world is actually connected. That means, even if we get separated, we'll never be aloneCollection: Mean
The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.Collection: Mean
In short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me seeming to rise to the top of the heap of several filmmakers that were trying to get the rights. And by top of the heap I mean in terms of being somebody that was trusted to do it as they said they were going to attempt to do it and that this way of doing it would be something they would be willing to allow.Collection: Mean
I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.Collection: Mean
I do think that Republicans are flirting with their tax cut, which has always been the narcotic of Republicans, that they in fact have to at some point, with any remote pretense of candor, abandon any pretense of a balanced budget.I mean, they talk about - because they are going to finance the tax cut by tax cuts. That's how they're going to do it. And I do think that the will is there right now in the Congress to act. I think they will be as close to unity as you will see on Capitol Hill this year.Collection: Mean
Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.Collection: Mean
The right to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.Collection: Mean
Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.Collection: Mean
The failure to be perfect does not mean you are not a success; it is giving your best that helps you to understand the joy of receiving.Collection: Mean
Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.Collection: Mean
I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.Collection: Mean
Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it means never living apart from one's self. It is not about the absence of other people -- it is about being fully present to ourselves, whether or not we are with others. Community does not necessarily mean living face-to-face with others; rather, it means never losing the awareness that we are connected to each other. It is not about the presence of other people -- it is about being fully open to the reality of relationship, whether or not we are alone.Collection: Mean
Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past.Collection: Mean
Iran has essentially mastered all of the complex science and technology that they need to have a completely indigenous nuclear weapons program. That means that our options on Iran are extremely limited, to regime change or as a last resort, the use of force.Collection: Mean
The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by the civilian populace.Collection: Mean
We have the authority to take action, but responsible authority means not only being able to take action, but knowing when and how to take that action.Collection: Mean
Henry, this isn't about us. I mean it is, but they don't define you by the button you wear. They define you by what you do, by what your actions say about you. And coming here, despite your parents, says a lot to them- and me. And they're Americans first. They don't see you as the enemy. They see you as a person.Collection: Mean
The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.Collection: Mean
There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thingCollection: Mean
The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channeling its powers positively for your purposes, you can do anything. I mean anything. The secret is to make your mind work for you not against you. This means constantly being positive. Constantly setting up challenges you can meet either today, next week, or next month. "I can't..." should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving.Collection: Mean
Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.Collection: Mean
Whores get bow-legged and bankers get mean, which is strange when you think that if whores get bow-legged, bankers should get generous, but they never do.Collection: Mean
The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.Collection: Mean
We are not attracted to people because they are virtuous. In fact, there's something a little creepy about people who are too good. There is a big draw to people who are successful at breaking the rules. That means we end up admiring a lot of people that we think we shouldn't.Collection: Mean
Maybe you are the "cool" generation. If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.Collection: Mean
In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.Collection: Mean
I didnt like the Survivor shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create.Collection: Mean
Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.Collection: Mean
You must forge your own path for it to mean anything.Collection: Mean
A theocracy is a government ruled directly by God, and for us it means "Theocracy within". In other words, trying to live by God's principles instead of just living selfishly.Collection: Mean
When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.Collection: Mean
If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love?Collection: Mean
The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.Collection: Mean