Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

I run into grounded people all the time. Given, most of them are behind the camera. But I definitely by no means think I'm the only one.

Everyone wants a more simple tax system. But if this means that certain tax breaks have to be cut, people are no longer so enthusiastic.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

If you see a river running smoothly, it's because someone has drowned in it, and if it's raging, it means that it's still got bloodlust.

I come from a very naked family, so that's just something that's not a big deal for me. I don't think it means anything other than that.

[The democratization of luxury] means more people are going to get better fashion. And the more people who can have fashion, the better.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

Three can do more than ten when Our Lord puts His hand to things, and He always does so when He takes away the means of doing otherwise.

I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.

Rowan Joffe is very specific. I mean, he wrote it as well and he has a very orderly writer's mind and the same applies to his directing.

I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence. Also, I think that if you use the wrong means, the ends themselves get distorted.

A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.

I was born in 1972, which means that in "rock" terms I have no business addressing "the kids" unless it's to shoo them out of my garden.

Just because you can't see the air, doesn't mean you stop breathing. And just because you can't see God, doesn't mean you stop believing

The failure to be perfect does not mean you are not a success; it is giving your best that helps you to understand the joy of receiving.

Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical.

I advise women to invest in real estate. It is the collateral to be preferred above all others, and the safest means of investing money.

I think when I say universal, it means making a project that everybody can enjoy but also a project where they're getting closer to you.

With big folks, either people think you look mean or it's more of a jolly Santa Claus, 'Oh, he's just a pudgy little teddy bear pillow.'

My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel.

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.

Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

If what we said cannot go beyond the century we live in, it means that we have said nothing. Let us say something for all the centuries!

[J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right.

My mom named me Pom because she said it sounded like a combination of Korean words that mean 'spring' and 'tiger.' So, it's very unique!

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

Saying you like "Piano Man" doesn't mean you like Billy Joel; it means you're willing to go to a piano bar if there's nothing else to do

55% of all Americans lose their remote control 5 times a week. That means that they must see the same show for up to 3-4 minutes a time!

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.

Put on the music, and listen. Zazen means to sit, to listen. You're listening to enlightenment, to the universes, to the planes of mind.

Mitt Romney is not going to be running for president. So you know what that means. We are getting closer and closer to 'President Trump.'

Bitten? You mean you're a-" "A werewolf," said the girl. "Like everyone else here. Except you, and the asshole. And the asshole's sister.

At first, I didn't really care if global warming existed. But then I realized it means that less bums would freeze to death in the winter

The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable.

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis

I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things.

Consecrated life means going to the very root of the love of Jesus Christ with an undivided heart and putting nothing ahead of this love.

Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

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