Two Meanings Quotes

#1. This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.

Sarah Dessen

#2. A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.

James Russell Lowell

#4. The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that's why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.

John Green

#5. Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word.

Lewis Carroll

#6. I've spent enough time studying languages to know that almost any phrase can have two meanings

Ally Carter

#7. 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

#8. F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

Zig Ziglar

#9. Death had two meanings - the loss of resources to society and the personal grief of the few who cared. Fersonne's value was less than that of one cargo, and this time, I was one of the few who cared, and I wanted there to be some meaning

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#10. You know sometimes words have two meanings.

Robert Plant

#11. Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

Aristotle.

#12. Experience and miracle are two agents crafted with different names and meanings, yet express the exact same nature. It takes a miracle to gap experience. It takes experience to close the wall of a miracle. In the end, the only real difference ... is skill.

Lionel Suggs

#13. Am I not a man and brother?

Josiah Wedgwood

#14. We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts

C.S. Lewis

#15. Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.

Rebecca Solnit

#16. Successful (working) but undesigned applications carry the seeds of their own destruction; they are easy to write, but gradually become impossible to change.

Sandi Metz

#17. A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

Henri Bergson

#18. No proper princess would come out looking for dragons," Woraug objected.
"Well I'm not a proper princess then!" Cimorene snapped. "I make cherries jubillee and I volunteer for dragons, and I conjugate Latin verbs
or at least I would if anyone would let me. So there!

Patricia C. Wrede

#19. Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

Marcel Proust

#20. When you are producing for ABC, you are producing for a big tent network. So when you are thinking about your story lines and characters, you are thinking about broad appeal. When you are producing for a niche interest, you are producing for a different audience.

Anne Sweeney

#21. Solitude helps the soul remember that life and
work have two completely different meanings. It reminds
us that we were created for greatness in relationship with
others, not task lists and spreadsheets.

Angela Lynne Craig

#22. No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#23. He'll burn the world for her

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#24. If the players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

Irwin Shaw

#25. As Mel ushered me into a seat in front of my mirror, I demanded, This is how I'm supposed to compete with Clotile?

Kresley Cole

#26. I have seen many ladies displaying different styles and different styles displaying ladies.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

#27. Anything is possible in this world. I really believe that.

Liza Minnelli

#28. He could accept people with failings - even forgive them - but if he glossed over the problems, then they would never change.

Brandon Sanderson

#29. How strange it was that cleave had two such disparate meanings; she'd known to cut and tear, but now she knew to cling. She rested her cheek in the valley between his shoulder and chest. Amos

Erika Swyler

#30. Lord knows, every day is not a success, every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good.

Reese Witherspoon

#31. Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.

David Levithan

#32. Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning.

Orrin Woodward

#33. People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.

Edward Hall

#34. They were like two sides of the same coin, but with two different meanings and purposes. So different, yet so similar in profound ways.

A.A. Gupte