#mean

But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children. ↗

— Dick Bruna

#down #i #meant #sit #think

It doesn't mean that I won't be sexy or hip or anything like that. ↗

— Peabo Bryson

#hip #i #like #mean #sexy

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature. ↗

— Wynn Bullock

#i #me #meaning #nature #something

There is good in everything; it's just how you choose to look at it. Everything that's worth it has a price. For me to be a model - I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow. ↗

— Gisele Bundchen

#challenge #challenges #choose #everything #family

The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#inspiration #meaning #peony #small-things #beauty

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies. ↗

— Kofi Busia

#deceiving #diplomacy #friends #means #nearly

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#had #humiliating #law #mainly #means

We ask advice, but we mean approbation. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#approbation #ask #mean

Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#exercise #fresh #fresh air #get #golf

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#add #aid #aims #artificial #consequences