#mean

You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#give #life #meaning #want #whatever

Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity. ↗

— Samuel Fuller

#does #even #evil #mean #necessity

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#ideas #like #meaning #meaning of #mere

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#creation #freed #houses #idea #mean

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#everything #i #make #man #mean

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. ↗

— Helen Garner

#began #easily #fall #fell #fulfilment

Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction. ↗

— Helen Garner

#advance #because #crossroads #enough #established

I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#ashamed #auditioning #because #broadway #broke

I try to eat in a way that makes me feel good. If that means a little bite of chocolate I do that, but I try not to use food as a reward for myself. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#chocolate #eat #feel #feel good #food

My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#art #budgeting #college #crazy #did