Top 100 Can Mean Quotes

#1. The word lust [can] mean "selfish desire." ... It is wanting something so badly you will do anything to get it. That is one of the tricks of the devil. It is too high a price to pay.

Billy Graham

Can Mean Quotes #42988
#2. I think when one becomes very close to another person, it can mean loving and intimacy, but on the other hand, there's also the danger of one destructing another under the name of love. I think that is the scariest thing for me in various relationships.

Bong Joon-ho

Can Mean Quotes #1858557
#3. Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.

Gary Ross

Can Mean Quotes #1850362
#4. I love you is a good thing to say if you can mean it

Neil Gaiman

Can Mean Quotes #1768297
#5. Supporting a creative artist can mean buying their books, music, art, movie, and photographs or just shouting out their name.

Chris Mentillo

Can Mean Quotes #1757740
#6. My husband and I are very different. Our company is called Syzygy Industries, which can mean a pair of opposites. And that's exactly what we are. Yet there is obviously a very strong pull toward each other.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Can Mean Quotes #1753041
#7. Does "doing exactly what I want" mean not thinking about other people's feelings? Because that's just not the kind of person I am.
Maybe it can mean whatever I want it to mean, like taking care of myselfand not letting people walk over me.

Carolyn Mackler

Can Mean Quotes #1741797
#8. You gotta be nice to strangers even when they are the worst, because they don't know you well enough to understand how shut your big face can mean I've missed you more than the whole world can know.

Catherynne M Valente

Can Mean Quotes #1731880
#9. When you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong feet," she writes. "Now you are older and know it can mean many things, but essentially it means to put your shoes on the wrong feet.

Lorrie Moore

Can Mean Quotes #1702757
#10. One of the things about writing that inspires
and impresses me, is the music words can make. And, like music, the spaces between the notes can mean as much as the notes themselves.
The Jesus Horse

Melinda West Seifert

Can Mean Quotes #1667650
#11. Respect flows two ways and can mean as much to the giver as to the one receiving.

David Anthony Durham

Can Mean Quotes #1632069
#12. In a service situation, each delay can mean many unsatisfied customers, each one telling many more.

Ron Kaufman

Can Mean Quotes #1628052
#13. A simple right or left can mean life or death,
Epic fail or nice success,
Days of pleasure or nights of stress.

Ka

Can Mean Quotes #1622621
#14. No can mean: not right now, not through this person, not this way, not through here. It does not mean: never, no other way, you don't deserve it, you're unworthy, it's not gonna happen.

Emily Maroutian

Can Mean Quotes #1571788
#15. The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life, they have many lives, and in each life they can mean different things. Which means that, while we all have one biography, they have many.

Neil MacGregor

Can Mean Quotes #1565464
#16. I mean, being with someone for over a year can mean that you love them ... but it can also mean you're trapped.

David Levithan

Can Mean Quotes #1543852
#17. Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.

David Harvey

Can Mean Quotes #1520562
#18. Taking a shuttle or even paying for a taxi to a rental office that's a few miles away from the airport can mean a lower rate - 50 percent lower is common - for the same car, from the same company, for the same length of time. Many companies run free shuttles from some of the major airports.

Jean Chatzky

Can Mean Quotes #1513635
#19. It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.

Barbara Kruger

Can Mean Quotes #1510676
#20. Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.

Jerry Saltz

Can Mean Quotes #1510123
#21. Leadership can mean defiance.

Chuck Wendig

Can Mean Quotes #1501727
#22. The Moralization Gap is part of a larger phenomenon called self-serving biases. People try to look good. "Good" can mean effective, potent, desirable, and competent, or it can mean virtuous, honest, generous, and altruistic.

Steven Pinker

Can Mean Quotes #1496548
#23. A strategic inflection point is a time in the life of business when its fundamentals are about to change. that change can mean an opportunity to rise to new heights. But it may just as likely signal the beginning of the end

Andrew S. Grove

Can Mean Quotes #1495401
#24. Something feels weird," he told Laura. That wasn't the first thing he said to her. The first thing was "I love you," because it's a good thing to say if you can mean it, and Shadow did.

Neil Gaiman

Can Mean Quotes #1470262
#25. When you're nice, people like you and will want to work with you. But it can mean that they take you for granted.

Mario Testino

Can Mean Quotes #1467568
#26. To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.

Pope Paul VI

Can Mean Quotes #1465646
#27. Yet as a distinction, citizenship is entirely artificial. An accident of birth, a quirk in the law, or the whim of a bureaucrat can mean the difference between a life of comfort or a life of struggle.

Stephan Faris

Can Mean Quotes #1461448
#28. The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong effect on the happiness and wellbeing of millions of people and so I think the essence of power is to be conscious of what it can mean for others.

Bob Hawke

Can Mean Quotes #1451461
#29. For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

Richard Branson

Can Mean Quotes #1448376
#30. There's an importance of keeping an open mind. The brain is programmed to protect us, and that can mean imposing limits on what it thinks we can or should do. Constantly push at those limits, because the brain can be way too cautious.

Chrissie Wellington

Can Mean Quotes #1432053
#31. Apocalypse can mean the unveiling of the deeper self of humanity.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

Can Mean Quotes #1419770
#32. Hyper-communication can mean we spend more time on Facebook than we do face-to-face with the people we care about.

Brene Brown

Can Mean Quotes #1407279
#33. That's another interesting thing about music: It can mean anything.

Matt Corby

Can Mean Quotes #1403561
#34. Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined to poetry.

Frank E. Gaebelein

Can Mean Quotes #1397960
#35. See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women, can mean that wholesale death and destruction will be avoided why, a man would be a monster who had it in his power to alleviate all that suffering yet stood by and did nothing.

Stephen R. Lawhead

Can Mean Quotes #1384880
#36. God Child is a free and inspirational translation of Adam. Adam means 'human', not 'man'. The Hebrew for 'man' is 'aish'. In English man can mean both man and human, which may have caused the confusion in the first place. If Adam isn't the first male Homo sapiens, who or what is he?

Stefan Emunds

Can Mean Quotes #1379643
#37. 'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

Can Mean Quotes #1376981
#38. Being a philanthropist doesn't mean necessarily writing a huge check. It can mean mobilizing your community to start asking questions.

Kavita Ramdas

Can Mean Quotes #1369702
#39. In science ... "discovery" can mean finding a guppy with an extra spine in its dorsal fin.

Thomas Hayden

Can Mean Quotes #1342540
#40. Remembering who God is can mean the difference between standing firm and being swept away.

Kathy Howard

Can Mean Quotes #1335436
#41. In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.

Ben Sherwood

Can Mean Quotes #1329940
#42. I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to put into words the word 'tone,' which I think is thrown around a lot and can mean a hundred different things, but communicating that to other people is definitely a challenge.

Elizabeth Meriwether

Can Mean Quotes #1326746
#43. If President Obama really means what he has said repeatedly about supporting the aspirations of the Egyptian people, then he will have to recognize that in Egypt today, as in America in 1963, that can mean opposing government policy.

Cynthia P. Schneider

Can Mean Quotes #1300402
#44. There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'

Archie Panjabi

Can Mean Quotes #1292183
#45. Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.

Seamus Heaney

Can Mean Quotes #1213273
#46. Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well.

Romano Prodi

Can Mean Quotes #1180735
#47. It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

Lisa Unger

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#48. The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Can Mean Quotes #1176085
#49. In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.

Thomas Sowell

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#50. Trap is a four-letter word, and like so many four-letter words it can mean something entirely else.
--Hugo Anstead

Jennifer A. Girardin

Can Mean Quotes #1162797
#51. The further I've gotten into the Internet, the more I've become convinced that we've explored only a tiny corner of what it can mean and what we can feel there.

Marshall Herskovitz

Can Mean Quotes #1128710
#52. Buying from a local farmer can mean that he makes a two-hour extra truck drive, which can damage the environment more than a bunch of bananas on a boat.

Tyler Cowen

Can Mean Quotes #1113864
#53. The word Gospel is from the Anglo-Saxon godspell, meaning "good news." Ultimately the word comes from the Greek euangelion, also meaning "good news." Gospel can mean the good news preached by Jesus, or the good news preached about Jesus. These two meanings are the ones found in the Bible.

Anonymous

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#54. Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

Charles Munch

Can Mean Quotes #1092785
#55. It comes a time in your life that you will no longer live for yourself anymore. You never know how much a person can mean to you until one comes into your life, and changes it for the best.

Jason Pierre-Paul

Can Mean Quotes #1072872
#56. Everybody's out to get something from somebody. 'Gold diggers' doesn't just mean money, it can mean time, it can mean feelings. It can mean anything when you're taking and not giving. When people don't know how to reciprocate.

Tracy Morgan

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#57. Christianity must mean everything to us before it can mean anything to others.

Donald Soper, Baron Soper

Can Mean Quotes #1047357
#58. It's important to get a translator who will ask the questions in a sensitive and thoughtful way. Knowing the ethnicity issues, the tribal issues in some places ... who your translator is can mean a lot.

Peter Menzel

Can Mean Quotes #1043378
#59. Home?' I say. It's a word that can mean anywhere and nowhere.

Lauren DeStefano

Can Mean Quotes #1042953
#60. Winter's here, and you feel lousy: You're coughing and sneezing; your muscles ache; your nose is an active mucus volcano. These symptoms
so familiar at this time of year
can mean only one thing: Tiny fanged snails are eating your brain.

Dave Barry

Can Mean Quotes #1042486
#61. One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place.

Thomas De Maiziere

Can Mean Quotes #1020400
#62. Choosing to live can mean so much more than not dying.

Stephanie Kuehn

Can Mean Quotes #997303
#63. Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the line as you suffer the slings and arrows of ridicule.

Frank X. Barron

Can Mean Quotes #984836
#64. Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

Anne Frank

Can Mean Quotes #978842
#65. In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try.

Mike Krzyzewski

Can Mean Quotes #981625
#66. Autism, like a rainbow, has a bright side and a dark side and even though it can mean rough weather, it can be beautiful!

Stuart Duncan

Can Mean Quotes #8324
#67. A lot of women lose definition around their waist as they get older, which can mean their bottom half can look shapeless.

Marie Helvin

Can Mean Quotes #45575
#68. Life is full of goals to be identified and kept in sight. When we lose sight of the goal, we simply drift. Sometimes drift can mean disaster.

Mark Batterson

Can Mean Quotes #63856
#69. No holiday, no job, no amount of money, not even my own security can mean more to me than my love for God.

Monica Johnson

Can Mean Quotes #64360
#70. Also essential to math is the sense in which abstracting something can mean reducing it to its absolute skeletal essence, as in the abstract of an article or book. As such, it can mean thinking hard about things that for the most part people can't think hard about-because it drives them crazy.

David Foster Wallace

Can Mean Quotes #67398
#71. I don't think something necessarily has to be mean or cynical to represent 'edgy.' I think 'edgy' can mean a lot of different things.

Steve Carell

Can Mean Quotes #70910
#72. Curiosity's primal. Our senses scan our surroundings, alerting us most urgently about sudden change. Useful, that. Change can mean opportunity. It can mean danger. Finding lunch or being lunch. We're hard-wired to notice the unexpected, then take action.

Julie Czerneda

Can Mean Quotes #73395
#73. Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.

Bill Moyers

Can Mean Quotes #103593
#74. I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform. But if you dress up in a police officer's uniform, it doesn't mean that you are an officer; it can mean something else.

Wong Kar-Wai

Can Mean Quotes #126223
#75. This book is the account of his redemptive journey - through innocence, bigotry, hard-line radicalism, and beyond - to a passionate advocacy of human rights and all that this can mean.

Maajid Nawaz

Can Mean Quotes #135530
#76. even if we only gain a psychological advantage, that can mean the difference between victory and defeat. I'm reminded of the words of my father the king, who says that battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength." Syazarees

Xenophon

Can Mean Quotes #162434
#77. I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything.

Pippa Evans

Can Mean Quotes #175741
#78. A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.

Sandra Bernhard

Can Mean Quotes #230032
#79. Currency peg can mean higher volatility in short-term interest rates, as the central bank seeks to keep the price of its money steady in terms of the peg. It can mean deflation, if the supply of the peg is constrained (as the supply of gold was relative to the demand for it in the 1870s and 1880s).

Niall Ferguson

Can Mean Quotes #234741
#80. As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love.

Chris Milk

Can Mean Quotes #239120
#81. Sometimes a random fact of kindness that seems like no big deal to you can mean the world to someone else.

Kay Cassidy

Can Mean Quotes #265798
#82. Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person

Sylvia Plath

Can Mean Quotes #269154
#83. There is a temptation for an actor to editorialize what they're doing. And you can't do that with Pinter. It's almost like a musical score. His lines are so specific, but they can mean different things to different people, like an alternating current.

Peter Riegert

Can Mean Quotes #271333
#84. Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything.

Hank Ketcham

Can Mean Quotes #308279
#85. We use the word love in such a sloppy way that it can mean almost nothing or absolutely everything.

Bell Hooks

Can Mean Quotes #312644
#86. You only live once. But if you live your life right, once can mean everything!

Lorii Myers

Can Mean Quotes #314910
#87. Scientists say because of global warming they expect the world's oceans to rise four and a half feet. The scientists say this can mean only one thing: Gary Coleman is going to drown.

Conan O'Brien

Can Mean Quotes #389001
#88. I understood in a flash why, on the Greyhound sign, Arrivals and Departures were right next to each other. Because sometimes, like in that moment, they can mean exactly the same thing.

Morgan Matson

Can Mean Quotes #390811
#89. Events of October 1962 indicated, as they had all through history, that control of the sea means security. Control of the seas can mean peace. Control of the seas can mean victory. The United States must control the seas if it is to protect your security ...

John F. Kennedy

Can Mean Quotes #407345
#90. Drinking responsibly' doesn't have to mean not drinking enough. It can mean having a bit of self-respect, a bigger, better laugh while you're drinking and a clearer memory of it the next morning. Maybe

Pete Brown

Can Mean Quotes #422938
#91. We are in niche consumption mode, but 'niche' doesn't mean 'small' anymore. Niche can mean focused, and particularly with the Web, which is a global audience ... you can have something niche and still get 10 to 15 million views.

Chris Hardwick

Can Mean Quotes #427964
#92. If I can mean to people - if I can symbolize the ability to pursue gender equality, racial equality, and to be truthful about our experiences, then, absolutely, that's what I want to be.

Anita Hill

Can Mean Quotes #430054
#93. Alone doesn't just mean without people. It can mean without anything else. And maybe, even without putting a word on me, she's found a way to take away things I thought were mine. If this is the start I have no way to know when it will stop.

Jael McHenry

Can Mean Quotes #438062
#94. Just saying "I love you" can mean the difference between nothing and everything. Some people say it while they stab the person they say it to - some say it to the one holding the knife.

Christina Engela

Can Mean Quotes #491065
#95. It's easy to forget that promises can mean something.

Kit Rocha

Can Mean Quotes #503732
#96. And that's humbling, knowing that your voice can mean so much to another person.

Kirsty Eagar

Can Mean Quotes #838003
#97. The beauty of poetry is that it can mean different things to different people at different times.

Wendy Higgins

Can Mean Quotes #882417
#98. The nod of a head is such a small thing, it can mean so little, yet it is the gesture of assent that allows, that makes to be. The nod is the gesture of power, the yes. The numen. the presence of the sacred, is called by its name.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Can Mean Quotes #848891
#99. Nothing is an accident: it's always someone's fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated, alone with his or her anguish and guilt, and too penetrating a question can mean people are not able to face one another the next day.

Nadeem Aslam

Can Mean Quotes #839853
#100. To care for someone can mean to adore them, feed them, tend their wounds. But care can also signify sorrow, as in 'bowed down by cares.' Or anxiety, as in 'Careful!' Or investment in an outcome, as in 'Who cares?' The word love has no such range of meaning: It's pure acceptance.

Martha Beck

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