Quotes of: Different-means Keyword

To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.

The Glass Bead Game

Self-governing cultures both inspire alignment and eject elements that don't fit in.

How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything... in Business

Words simply mean what people think they mean when they say them.

How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

The first step to Happiness is deciding exactly what kind of life you want. That kinda comes from experience.

HOW TO SAY NO TO ANYTHING AND MEAN IT

When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified.

Brooklyn Noir

Dependence on the Lord is wisdom and self-reliance is foolishness. But dependence on the Lord does not mean laziness, it means prayerful action and patient perseverance...

Because I Love You

Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken ...

Jerry Saltz

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

Barbara Kruger

1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.

Leon Askin

I made her late, so she made me dinner. And by late I mean pregnant. And by dinner I mean marry her.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Why it's simply impassible! Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Door: No, I do mean impassible. Nothing's impossible!

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.

Angelmaker

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers

There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.

The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.

The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

I realized that love is stronger than death and that people you barely know can amaze you.

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

If we could all drink ourselves to innocence, I’d be guilty. And I mean that in a way that I don’t mean that.

Seven Sisters Sinister Murder Mystery Dinner

It [enlightenment] has not come to you by means of teaching! And-thus is my thought, oh exalted one,-nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings! (character of Siddhartha, speaking to the Buddha)

Siddhartha

Acceptance doesn’t mean that life gets better; it just means that my way of living life on life’s terms improves.

Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove