Quotes of: Double-meaning Keyword

If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?

Enough's Enough

They tell me to be quiet When I’d rather cause a riot And have everyone screaming Out their eccentric meaning.

Err and Grr

The word love has been so abused by publicity and advertisements that we no longer know really what it means.

Eruption to Hope

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

Everything Is Illuminated

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Eat, Pray, Love

If someone left, mean not your happiness gone surely, Happiness dependant not on others but yourself but be. [223] - 4 (Thoughts)

Eddies of Life

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

Ends and Means

A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?

Embassytown

By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

I mean, I haven't rushed to the answerphone once to see if anyone's aware of my existence in the world!

The Edge of Reason

She shuddered. “What is it with slobbery kissers? Are they trying to drown us in spit? I mean, Jesus, swallow every now and then.

Easy

Did you ever wish you had a book that would explain the full meaning of life's random happenings to you?

Emiko Superstar

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

Ethics

Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.

Far Far Away

When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.

The Fireman's Fair

It’s despicable of an author to kill his main personage solely for stirring imagination of indifferent or mean minds.

Forever Jocelyn

If the Dreams mean nothing, then why are you so afraid to talk about them?

First Light

The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else.

Flaubert's Parrot

Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?

The Fellowship of the Ring

...freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others...

A Familiar Rain

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

The Great Book of Amber