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mean meanness nations
A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing. Charles Sumner
mean talking spite
No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far! Charles de Gaulle
mean
Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are. Charles de Lint
mean thinking people
I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there. Charles de Lint
mean mind austin
Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do away with genres and simply file everything under fiction. I know it can work -- one of my favourite record stores (Waterloo Music in Austin) simply files everything alphabetically and no one seems to have much problem finding what they're looking for. Charles de Lint
mean people competition
There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all. Charles de Lint
mean secret purpose
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation. Charles Caleb Colton
mean men light
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short. Charles Caleb Colton
mean gossip secret
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. Charles Caleb Colton
guarantees-that two literature
A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match. Charles Dickens
guarantees-that names giving
So it is fair enough that you are paying me what I ask for, because it is my name you are using to sell the film. If the producer gives me a guarantee that he will sell the film at a lower price to the distributors, fair enough, then I will charge less! Ajay Devgan
guarantees-that guarantees want
Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future Aristotle
guarantees-that interesting skins
No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on with my skin. David Nicholls
guarantees-that risk elements
All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions. Carl Sagan
guarantees-that uncharted-waters immigration
This bill [Immigration Reform and Control act of 1986] is a gamble, a riverboat gamble. There is no guarantee that employer sanctions will work or that amnesty will work. We are headed into uncharted waters. Charles Schumer
guarantees-that careers worry
Every time you worry that you could get trapped in some kind of work you don't care about, you're dealing with the problem of meaningfulness. I guarantee that in the back of your mind is the thought that somehow you have to make a contribution to something, be acknowledged, do something that matters-or you're just fooling around. Barbara Sher
guarantees-that giving support
When you buy Fairtrade products you can guarantee that the farmers who have worked hard to grow them get a minimum price. Fairtrade is a way of giving regular support - and enjoying delicious high quality foods at the same time. Emma Thompson
guarantees-that presidential competing
Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president? Alexander Lukashenko
vocabulary matter building
Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using. David Crystal
vocabulary going-away trying
Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors. Dean Koontz
vocabulary today diction
Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language. Carl Sandburg
vocabulary use cult
Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary. Charles R. Swindoll
vocabulary spirit common
So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure. Edward Sapir
vocabulary entrepreneur taught
The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values. Edward Abbey
vocabulary
Humor is not far from my vocabulary. Edward Herrmann
vocabulary language drawbacks
I find vocabulary to be a great drawback. Elizabeth Taylor
vocabulary doe sound
Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary. Beck