Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.

If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I'm not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions.

L.A. is such a big city, and theres so much going on. I mean, you know youre in L.A. when you can just hear sirens all the time.

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.

Being brave doesn't mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it's the right thing to do.

We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.

I called gold the ultimate bubble, which means it may go higher. But it’s certainly not safe and it’s not going to last forever.

I'm a great believer in karma and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.

Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement.

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

Does he have a nickname?' Diana went on remorselessly. 'I mean, 'gaiphage' is so long. Can we call him phage? Or maybe just 'G'?

Animals can seem more pure. Without complication, I mean, animals are selfless. What animals do for us, they do out of instinct.

What does politically correct mean? If you're fat, don't ask me if you're fat, because I'm gonna tell you the truth. You're fat.

Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world.

I mean you've got a conservative and right-winged press presence with really nothing on the other end of the political spectrum.

Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw.

We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.

Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean, there lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame.

Just because they say they're praying for you in your face, doesn't mean they aren't laughing at your struggle behind your back.

Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things.

To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

You know, I started doing movies. I mean, my mind was brought into saying, you know what? I want to build a generation of wealth.

What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn't used to have to do that. But now I do.

I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing.

A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

Donald Trump announced today he is running for president of the United States. Traditionally that means six more weeks of comedy.

To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.

What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.

authority love your neighbor.no matter what the condition is. even if it means to sacrifice your plan to do what he or she wants.

As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.

Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.

Effective learning means arriving at new power, and the consciousness of new power is one of the most stimulating things in life.

I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life.

Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel.

The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.

I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of a public.

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.

While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.

I like being part of good movies and telling stories that mean something to me. I also like playing characters that I look up to.

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music

To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.

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