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I would not like it thought that I do not buy my own paperclips, sir. I enjoy owning my own paperclips. It means they are mine.
It's never easy dealing with terrorists, but it must be done through a mixture of political, economic and administrative means.
I think people are just intrigued with the supernatural. I mean, I know that I am. It's something that I find very interesting.
You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.
Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of the same things we remember.
This means the world to me that you guys are here with me celebrating with me. Thank you. Thank you. I can’t express it enough.
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.
Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.
Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.
If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.
When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.
What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.
Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.
And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.
Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.
Never fear the golding of a sunset. It means more than just the closing of another day. But marks the brightness of a new dawn.
Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.
A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
A high income job, a big house, nice cars, and lavish vacations don't mean you are rich, in fact it could mean exactly opposite
When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
Every time we get slapped down, we can say, Thank you Mother Nature, because it means we're about to learn something important.
Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.
It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.
It's going to mean four or five justices, super liberal, placed on the Supreme Court. Our country will never, ever be the same.
It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not. It just means that you're in sync with yourself.
Finding your way doesn't mean you always know where you're going. It's knowing how to find your way back home that's important.
The fact that there is no such thing as a perfect anti-sepsis does not mean that one might as well do brain surgery in a sewer.
Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.
We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it.
If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn.
I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
The same things happen to quite an extent around the globe. I mean, the European banks were doing what the American banks were.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else.
When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.
So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.
Just because you are struggling does NOT mean you are failing. Every great success requires some kind of struggle to get there.
It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.
Conversion does not mean a change of outward appearance; rather it requires a change of mind and results in a transformed life.
Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.
To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me.
Life is worthwhile if you try. It doesn't mean you can do everything but there are a lot of things you can do, if you just try.
I want to win at everything. I usually don't like things that I'm not good at, but it doesn't mean I don't want to win at them.