We Mean Quotes

140 We Mean quotes by 123 unique authors

Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape.… — Carl Jung
When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did. — Logan Pearsall Smith
To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the… — John Drinkwater
What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can… — Jo Nesbo
What we mean by integration is not to be with them (whites) but to have what they have. — Julian Bond
When we undertake a task, we should not falter from first to last until the task is accomplished; if we fail, we should not begrudge… — Sun Yat-sen
I embrace the term 'evangelical,' if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the world, caring for… — Rob Bell
After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men… — Barbara Deming
It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline… — Antonio Gramsci
You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's… — Frederick Lenz
One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife that… — Eli Siegel
Our theme is, 'Respected abroad, strong at home.' What do we mean by that? Basically that we want a strong emphasis on affordable health care… — Bill Richardson
Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that… — Alan I. Leshner
... if we say that the Father is the origin of the Son and greater than the Son, we do not suggest any precedence in… — Pope Clement I
When a guy says, "Don't make a fuss over my birthday," he means "Don't make a fuss over my birthday". When we say "Don't make… — Joy Browne
Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust laws and poisonous… — H.G. Wells
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. — Theodore Dreiser
If the Founding Fathers could have looked into a crystal ball and seen AK-47s and Glock semi-automatic pistols, I think they would say, you know,… — Michael Moore
I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it… — Gary Neville
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation,… — George Santayana
We showed that when we say 'Wisconsin is open for business', we mean it. — Scott Walker
When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of… — C.S. Lewis
We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so… — Ram Dass
Those promises we make to ourselves when we are younger, about how we mean to conduct our adult lives, can it be true we break… — Jonathan Lethem
If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone. — C.S. Lewis

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