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If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they… — Rita Dove
If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about… — John F. Kennedy
There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean… — Daniel Webster
A bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. "You want to be careful with those," Ron warned Harry. "When they say every flavor, they mean… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too… — J.R.R. Tolkien
When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they… — W. Somerset Maugham
I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that… — Lois McMaster Bujold
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Well, usually when a person shakes their head,” said McGonagall coldly, “they mean ‘no.’ So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither… — Oscar Wilde
We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only… — Libba Bray
Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they… — Oscar Wilde
When people say, "I've told you fifty times," / They mean to scold, and very often do; / When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes,"… — Lord Byron
What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is… — William James
When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to… — Edgar Allan Poe
Only mundanes say they're sorry when what they mean is "I share your grief,"' Jace observed. — Cassandra Clare
We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense… — Norton Juster
When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more… — Timothy Keller
I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are… — Jodi Picoult
Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything. — Ali Smith
You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they… — Martin Amis
How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun." Jem still had his eyes… — Cassandra Clare
Must you go? I was rather hoping you'd stay and be a ministering angel, but if you must go, you must." "I'll stay," Will said… — Cassandra Clare
This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when… — Elizabeth Scott

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