Top 92 Mean The Same Thing Quotes
#1. How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?
Ziggy Marley
#2. The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,
each his own interest.
George Berkeley
#3. Now he learned what law and order and truth are, what consent and harmony mean; how the individual may find his own end in a higher end, where law and freedom mean the same thing, and the purest certainty exists without the slightest constraint.
George MacDonald
#4. We all have different languages; but we all really mean the same thing.
C.S. Lewis
#5. Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.
Danica McKellar
#6. We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
Abraham Lincoln
#7. The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A story is a narrative on an event or series of events, just like history.
James M. Kouzes
#9. He looks like someone who could slap you or kiss you and you wouldn't be able to tell which one is coming and it would mean the same thing either way.
Alden Bell
#10. Immigration and travel certainly don't mean the same thing everywhere. Here in Cuba, the big wall isn't just the fact that it's an island, but the fact that we need an exit permit in order to leave, and the letters of invitation in order to visit another country.
Fernando Perez
#11. I don't know how good I'll be at teaching you. Seems I can't even teach you to call me Father.'
She smiled shyly. 'Chase and Father mean the same thing to me.
Terry Goodkind
#12. Good," said Moobin. "Any questions?"
"Yes," said Tiger. "Why do inflammable and flammable mean the same thing?"
"Sorry, I should rephrase that: Any questions relating to the job at hand?"
There weren't.
"Well," said Moobin with finality, "there it is, then. Rest well.
Jasper Fforde
#13. And the lesson of it all is, your Highness," said the oldest Dwarf, "that those Northern Witches always mean the same thing, but in every age they have a different plan for getting it.
C.S. Lewis
#14. Not true," said Adrian. "All guys mean the same thing when they want to 'get to know a girl better.' You're a wellbred young lady, so I understand why you'd be too innocent to understand. Good thing you've got me here to interpret.
Richelle Mead
#15. Wanting someone isn't the same as loving them, though," he said. "You know? It doesn't mean the same thing.
Robin Benway
#16. Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?
George Carlin
#17. Words like 'custody' don't mean the same thing to him. I don't want us to own anything together. "You don't want to be happy," he accuses me.
Eula Biss
#18. Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing
Ahdaf Soueif
#19. A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that "E is dense in E" does not mean the same thing as "E is dense in itself".
John Edensor Littlewood
#20. It's easy to get lost in the shuffle, and just enticing people to hear the music for free doesn't mean that much when everyone else is essentially doing the same thing on MySpace, or wherever.
Trent Reznor
#21. So, I stood alone by the wall and watched the dance for a while. I would describe it to you, but I think it's the kind of thing where you have to be there or at least know the people. But then again, maybe you knew the same people when you went to high school dances, if you know what I mean.
Stephen Chbosky
#22. What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.
Joyce Carol Oates
#23. There's one word that exists in every language on the face of the Earth and in every society since man began to speak. And the word is truth. And in every language it means exactly the same thing. Truth is ... what you get other people to believe.
Tommy Smothers
#24. I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least - at least I mean what I say - that's the same thing, you know.
Lewis Carroll
#25. As we shave it happens that we cut ourself with the razor blade; this does not mean that we must not shave in the morning any longer. It is the same thing for yoga.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#26. You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.
China Mieville
#27. Don't you want to forget it, if it's past?"
"I don't know. I don't know just how you mean that."
"I mean, are you sorry?"
"No. Would I do the same thing again? Yes."
"Do you mean with somebody else, or with her?"
"With her," Therese said.
Patricia Highsmith
#28. Remember, what does 'retirement' mean? It doesn't mean that you're a couch potato. Leisure is not the same thing as rest. If you're bicycling five miles a day, that's leisure, but it certainly takes a lot of effort.
Robert Fogel
#29. That's the way you judge a car, man, [good or bad], when you start it up. It's just the same thing. I mean, I drive a Ferrari - not to be cute, but because I dig it. I'd rather drive a ten-year-old Ferrari than one of them new things-they don't go.
Miles Davis
#30. It's one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in which globalization should mean homogeneity.
Benjamin Moser
#31. Feminism? The word itself means exactly the same thing to me as the word God does - it's a spirituality that is deeply personal, deeply subjective, and deeply no one else's business. You can identify the word however you want, it's just the non-exploration of it that is unacceptable to me.
Amber Tamblyn
#32. OK, I have to make sure we're on the same page here. Because I might mean one thing and she might mean, intending to start a Cordon Bleu course when I get back to England.
Sophie Kinsella
#33. Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an amazing thing. I mean, a painting is, in quotes, imaginary. There is nothing on the canvas when you start; and writing a song, there is nothing there when you start.
Lou Reed
#34. But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear!
William Allen Butler
#35. You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It's the same thing with filmmaking ... everybody has a great idea for a movie, but do you have the stamina to get good at your craft and deal with how heartbreaking it is?
Adam Green
#36. I want to know if she's wondering the same thing I'm wondering: What does Never Never mean?
Colleen Hoover
#37. Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing.
Garry Kasparov
#38. I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
Ferdinand Mount
#39. Mephistopheles: Over! A stupid word. How so over? Over and pure nothing: completely the same thing! "It's over now!" What's that supposed to mean? It's as good as if it never was.
Jonathan Franzen
#40. The wise maketh every thing the means of advantage; and with the same countenance beholdeth he all the faces of fortune: he governeth the good, he conquereth the evil; he is unmov'd in all. Presume not in prosperity, neither despair thou in adversity.
Robert Dodsley
#41. If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.
Manolo Blahnik
#42. What an incorrigible nonentity one must be to play only one role in life, to occupy only one place in society, to always mean one and the same thing!
Boris Pasternak
#43. Just because you don't know if other people are experiencing the same thing as you are, it doesn't mean that it's not happening. Everybody doesn't necessarily share everything. Just know that what you're going through, other people are going through it, too.
Tyra Banks
#44. Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake.
Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end.
Max Jacob
#45. I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious.
David Duchovny
#46. Indeed, the power of words has gone to man's head in more than one way. To define has come to mean almost the same thing as to understand.
Alan W. Watts
#47. All these words to say the same sad thing. That's what these people are like, they're never quite sure what they mean.
Jose Saramago
#48. By the mean of the thing I denote a point equally distant from either extreme, which is one and the same for everybody; by the mean relative to us, that amount which is neither too much nor too little, and this is not one and the same for everybody.
Aristotle.
#49. I think that music is stale because of it. I think that we have the same artists from day to day. It's nice to see an artist dip out and come back in every once in awhile. There's a such thing as oversaturating the market. I mean look at Britney.
Willa Ford
#50. You know I wanna stay with you, right? I mean forever... we agree on that, right?
Are you crazy, Stuart?
No, I'm in love... but maybe that's the same thing.
Arne Bellstorf
#51. Freedom must mean that institutions have the autonomy to determine their own practices and admirations within the law. Otherwise, we confront the totalitarian demand that everyone should think the same thing and participate in the same admirations.
Kenneth Minogue
#52. He said knowledge should be free to everyone," said Satya defiantly. "That's what we believe."
"Just because someone believes the same thing you do doesn't mean they're a good person," said Elfwyn.
Sage Blackwood
#53. I think there's something very lovely and hilarious about exploring the particular neuroses of the female mind. It's just not the same thing with men. I mean, there are exceptions, but for the most part, women beat themselves up in their heads more. They overanalyze stuff far more than men do.
Lizzy Caplan
#54. I've had some friends that are actually homosexual. And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn't have them anywhere near my children. But at the same time, they're people, and they're going to do their thing.
Joe Wurzelbacher
#55. I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.
Callan McAuliffe
#56. I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days. You don't have it yet, but you have a shadow of the beginnings of it. You haven't the humbleness of mind-"
"I thought the fear of the Lord was the beginning of wisdom."
"It's the same thing. Humility.
Harper Lee
#57. You have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.
Jose Saramago
#58. 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
#59. In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I'll be worth a sentence or two ... That's why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won't be anybody's number one, and it's that same old thing: if you're not number one, then what does it really matter?
Billie Jean King
#60. Tom Jones is funny to me, man. I mean, he really tries to ape Ray Charles and Sammy Davis, you know. He's nice-looking; he looks good doing it. I mean, if I was him, I'd do the same thing. If I was only thinking about making money.
Miles Davis
#61. 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.
Joseph Conrad
#62. Best behavior means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.
Lin Yutang
#63. I think it's the same thing for a country. We are lucky then that we can get some financing from the government, because it means when I get the money, when I get the grant to do the film, of course it's based on the script, but I have total artistic control and I can do personal stuff.
Philippe Falardeau
#64. But my point is that competitive eating is a real sport, and I considered taking it up. But when I thought about what this would mean sitting around for hours, stuffing my face with unhealthy food I realized it was basically the same thing as journalism.
Dave Barry
#65. Just because you're the same kind doesn't mean you're all one happy family. The important thing is to understand each other. That's love!
Sun-mi Hwang
#66. There is nothing like 'within' or 'without.' Both mean either the same thing or nothing.
Ramana Maharshi
#67. Being in love means you are completely broken, then put back together. The one piece that was yours is beating in your lover's breast. She says the same thing about hers.
Jason Molina
#68. Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
Thurgood Marshall
#69. Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now.
Denis Waitley
#70. Concentrate on comfort - even if that means wearing the same thing over and over, because when I feel comfortable, I feel so much more relaxed and have a much better time.
Emma Watson
#71. They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing.
Richard Yates
#72. But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while you stay the same, and that's just sad.
Rebecca Skloot
#73. We might mean different things. How can you tell? Only by reading each of us carefully and seeing what each of us has to say - not by pretending that we are both saying the same thing. We're often saying very different things.
Bart D. Ehrman
#74. Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.
Philip Johnson
#75. If I give dollars to some charity, nobody cares. I mean, it helps the charity, but nobody cares. But if the Dodgers do the same thing, they bring more focus to issues, and that makes it better.
Mark Walter
#76. People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.
Paul Auster
#77. I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.
Elie Wiesel
#78. Everyone has a unique perspective and that's valid. Everyone's perspective is valid. That doesn't mean that everyone has the same degree of skill level as an entertainer, but skill isn't the only important thing. It's also what kind of perspective and feelings you're bringing to it.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#79. Hysteria means the same thing with either laughter or tears.
Tim Sandlin
#80. Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna.
Patrick Rothfuss
#81. Clearly, imagining cannot be expected to mean exactly the same thing today as it did in the Middle Ages or antiquity. For one thing, Aristotle and Aquinas never watched television.
Richard Kearney
#82. Rant goes, "Really, truly with her whole entire heart, does Echo hate somebody?"
I go, doesn't Rant mean "love"?
And Rant shrugs and says, "Ain't it the same thing?
Chuck Palahniuk
#83. Shut up. You don't have to buy a pair of shoes just because you tried them on. They may look great sitting on the shelf, but that doesn't mean they won't feel like medieval torture devices on your feet once you wear them around for a few days. It's the same thing with me. (Lisa)
Cherrie Lynn
#84. Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.
Theodore Sturgeon
#85. Gilbert's response to being told they (the words 'ruddy' and 'bloody') meant the same thing was: Not at all, for that would mean that if I said that I admired your ruddy countenance, which I do, I would be saying that I liked your bloody cheek, which I don't.
W.S. Gilbert
#86. The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal.
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
#87. I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.
Elsie De Wolfe
#88. I mean that's my entire life right there. I re-evaluted everybody in my life. I narrowed it down to the people that really cared about me. And did away with everybody else. Just kind of distanced myself. Same thing with the producers.
Willa Ford
#89. One thing I fear, that you Americans will do the same thing that you did after the last war. I mean that you will pull out of here and leave Europe, then Russia will have her way. Private enterprise and individual rights will be lost just as much as under a Nazi government. Frightful!
Hjalmar Schacht
#90. I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it's so vague. I mean what is a nation? A nation is full of nice and bad and long and tall and short and thin people. It's not like everybody is the same.
Marjane Satrapi
#91. Who knows if all our brains are inventing the same thing? I mean, how do we know that the thing YOUR eyes see and call "red" is the same thing that I call "red"?
Jaclyn Moriarty
#92. For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing.
Mahatma Gandhi
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