#mean

The temptation is to make an idol of our own experience, to assume our pain is more singular than it is. Experience means nothing if it does not mean beyond itself: we mean nothing unless and until our hard-won meanings are internalized and catalyzed within the lives of others. There is something I am meant to see, something for which my own situation and suffering are the lens, but the cost of such seeing—I am just beginning to realize—may very well be any final clarity or perspective on my own life, my own faith. That would not be a bad fate, to burn up like the booster engine that falls away from the throttling rocket, lighting a little dark as I go. ↗

— Christian Wiman

#idolizing #meaning #experience

Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee. ↗

— Valerie Harper

#academy award #award #become #fahrenheit #first

Jack Lambert is mean and relentless wherever he goes, on and off the field! I do remember many times he would chase me in practice but no way would I let him catch me. ↗

— Franco Harris

#chase #field #goes #him #i

I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are. ↗

— Randy Harrison

#his #i #into #justin #know

Life isn’t fair. It doesn’t make sense. This unfairness is felt by everyone, from the Las Vegas tunnel dweller all the way to the executive in the high-rise. To some, these “unfair” experiences become a chastening ball and chain attached for the remainder of life. ↗

— John-Talmage Mathis

#life #meaning #experience

I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.' ↗

— Vicky Hartzler

#baby #birth #birth certificate #book #certificate

I mean, there are things in the book you could never do in a movie. ↗

— Noah Hathaway

#could #i #mean #movie #never

It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable. ↗

— Noah Hathaway

#i #know #little #makes #me

I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected. ↗

— Zahi Hawass

#eat #eaten #found #hippopotamus #his

Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#fair #fight #mean