They Mean Quotes
257 quotes by 221 authors
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
— Henry Adams
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The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
— Dave Barry
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
— Gary Bauer
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Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits…
— Louisa May Alcott
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If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding…
— Benjamin Carson
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When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas about the native.'…
— Doris Lessing
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Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be…
— Brigid Brophy
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I've got a funny old face. Someone described it once, and I think they were being kind, as character. But I know what they mean!…
— Cate Blanchett
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Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our faith and pledge…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going…
— Franklin P. Adams
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That got me a look so intense I was unable to interpret it - like the way cats sometimes fix on you. What they mean…
— Donald James
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Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.
— Gale Harold
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When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don't really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say,…
— William Faulkner
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Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
— Gail Godwin
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Barnsley have started off the way they mean to begin.
— Chris Kamara
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If they [liberals] didn't believe we were mean spirited they couldn't stay liberal. They have to believe they mean better than us, but we don't…
— Dennis Prager
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Success, and even life itself, wouldn't be worth anything if I didn't have my wife and children by my side. They mean everything to me.
— Jude Law
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It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people don’t…
— Sofia Coppola
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I get described as 'interesting' a lot. People often call me odd, too. Maybe they mean ugly. Given the services of a plastic surgeon, I…
— Anna Maxwell Martin
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