Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orson Scott Card

What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he's done, and that's as good as any man ever gets.

Orson Scott Card

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.

Orson Scott Card

You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.

Orson Scott Card

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

Orson Scott Card

Sister Carlotta, I'm on a leave of absence right now. That means I've been sacked, in case you don't understand how the I.F. handles these things.” "Sacked! A miscarriage of justice. You ought to be shot.

Pierre de Coubertin

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

Ram Dass

Religions are institutions that push you up the mountain and then they have their fantasies about the spirit. I mean they try to make God like the human psyche and it's wrong. I mean it's a projection of the mind, and you can use it to get a start and then you must leave it behind.

Ram Dass

Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

Ram Dass

I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

Ram Dass

The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

Ram Dass

Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

Ram Dass

Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love-for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish, birds, and trees. Compassion is bringing our deepest truth into our actions, no matter how much the world seems to resist, because that is ultimately what we have to give this world and one another.

Ram Dass

Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations.

Ram Dass

The final awakening is the embracing of the darkness into the light. That means embracing our humanity as well as our divinity. What we go from is being born into our humanity, sleep walking for a long time, until we awaken and start to taste our divinity. And then want to finally get free. We see as long as we grab at our divinity and push away our humanity we aren’t free. If you want to be free, you can’t push away anything. You have to embrace it all. It’s all God.

Ram Dass

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not.

Luis Alvarez

We voted on it, but that doesn't mean it went through.

Jerry Jones

We were willing to make some sacrifices to get this thing done. The proposal from the union was a mean mother.

Brendan Gaughan

We don't need to talk about what Vegas means to our family,

Jerry Stackhouse

Tonight was a big night for us. But so is (Saturday) night. If we stub our toe (against New Orleans), then this one means nothing.

Stephen Jay Gould

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

The Optimist's Handbook, hint #12: Substitute the word 'challenge' whenever you mean to say 'problem.'

The record is an accomplishment that I'd never thought I'd have. I thought about it midway through the game, but the record doesn't mean as much as winning a state championship.

We're not out of it by any means when we have seven with Houston,

Michelle Smith

We're not mean to each other. We are all trying to just make the paper better.

This trophy represents us, 2006. It means everything to us because we just got in this district.

Peter Jacobsen

This tournament means as much to us as it does to you juniors,

We go through this every year with the Legislature, and we have to wait to see what we are going to do. We can make all the plans in the world but unless we know what the Legislature is going to do, it doesn't mean anything.

Michael Nutter

We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.

Christopher Moore

Do we still have to floss?" Tommy asked. "I mean, what's the point of being immortal if we have to floss?

Billy Graham

Man's civility is lagging behind his technological ability. It could mean disaster and catastrophe for the whole world. We're all sinners, everyone of us, and a radical change is needed for all of us.

Billy Graham

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.

Billy Graham

World travel and getting to know clergy of all denominations has helped mold me into an ecumenical being. We're separated by theology and, in some instances, culture and race, but all that means nothing to me any more.

Billy Graham

Just because the truth is unpopular doesn't mean that it should not be proclaimed.