Meant Quotes
4065 Meant quotes by 2514 unique authors
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When you're a kid, what fun the game is! You grab a bat and glove and ball, that's it. I know what Ted Williams and…
— Eddie Mathews
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Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it’s no big deal that I’m not like Snow. I…
— Helen Oyeyemi
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I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe…
— David Antin
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These days I must take the world in small and carefully measured doses. It is a sort of homeopathic cure I am undergoing, though I…
— John Banville
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I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we…
— John Banville
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Property, the right to enjoy the fruits of one's labor, the right to work, to develop, to exercise one's faculties, according to one's own understanding,…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It…
— Annie Leibovitz
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The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the…
— Ray Bradbury
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Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable oppression.
— James Madison
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The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand…
— Carl Jung
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I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play…
— Samuel Barber
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The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery
— Poul Anderson
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What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual…
— Michael Moorcock
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We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the…
— Olaf Stapledon
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For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer we played football outside.
— Claudia Schiffer
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George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always…
— George Foreman
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I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, Im aware…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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During the primary, I heard the audible voice of God. … He said, 'Credibility.' It wasn't a thought in my head. I thought it meant…
— Christine O'Donnell
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That's crazy, because I had no idea what the word 'contraction' meant before I saw it on the Internet,
— LeBron James
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I love Polo. I have a lot of Ralph Lauren suits. I got Dolce, I got a little bit of everything. And my favorite thing…
— Chris Paul
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During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the…
— Akira Kurosawa
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I never meant to be but a dreamer.
— Fernando Pessoa
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
— Clarence Darrow
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