They Meant Quotes

50 quotes by 45 authors

Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting… — Thomas Jefferson
It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I… — Tom Hanks
Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the… — Abraham Lincoln
I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that… — Sherilyn Fenn
Everyone said, â€˜Brace yourself, Lupita! Keep a granola bar in that clutch of yours!â€™ I didnâ€™t really understand what they meant, and it was only… — Lupita Nyong'o
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
What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education,… — Danica McKellar
The Clash were innovative, radical and helped drive a change in music that was ground-breaking. In comparison to some of the music today they sounded… — Chrissie Hynde
So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big… — John Marsden
When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit… — David McCullough
When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people… — Axl Rose
I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,' by which they… — Bernard Goldberg
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it… — Wendell Berry
When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think… — Joyce Meyer
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of… — William Morris
Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, Those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one… — Kenneth Grahame
Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all. — Patricia A. McKillip
By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'. — Woody Allen
When most people said "I'm psychic, you see," they meant "I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/talk to my budgie;" when Anathema… — Neil Gaiman
and i don't just mean that they change you. a lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name,… — Sara Zarr

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