He Meant Quotes
123 quotes by 113 authors
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At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with…
— David R. Brower
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A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
— Frank A. Clark
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One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it right." What he…
— Joseph Murray
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I read the story and reread the story, but I still could not find the universality that the little Irishman had spoken of. All I…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself.…
— James Joyce
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When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.
— Enrico Fermi
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Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's…
— Michael Gambon
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Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course. There is only one thing…
— Israel Gelfand
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Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He couldn't do that…
— Larry Mullen, Jr.
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Israel is a solid ally of the United States. We will rise to Israel's defense, if need be. So this kind of menacing talk [by…
— George W. Bush
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Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.
— Christopher Titus
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With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be…
— David McCullough
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A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be, A father is someone who…
— Frank Howard Clark
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
— William Golding
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The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I…
— H. Rider Haggard
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The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long…
— Jacque Fresco
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In Detroit, Ned [Harkness] kept talking about a new concept, and when I'd ask him what he meant he never gave me the right answer.…
— Frank Mahovlich
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I can't resist telling you that when the Vienna Economics Institute celebrated its centennial, many years ago, they invited, as their keynote speaker, my father…
— James K. Galbraith
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A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Pickett excused himself, watchful of Longstreet. Pickett was always saying something to irritate somebody, and he rarely knew why, so his method was simply to…
— Michael Shaara
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