#mean

Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#always #bent #care #country #defence

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can spray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn because it's producing a gene that makes it tolerant of the herbicide. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#corn #gene #herbicides #kill #makes

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn't mean what you have isn't beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have - no one is ever 100 per cent like, 'Yes, I'm the bomb dot com - from head to toe!' ↗

— Rihanna

#beautiful #because #bomb #cent #com

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#belief #could #disappeared #fixed #focused

Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#because #doing #gets #just #just because

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us. ↗

— Jane Roberts

#awake #dreaming #events #meaning #only

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#contribute #get #gives #lives #meaning

You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#become #environment #events #how #interpret

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#events #lives #mean #our #our lives

If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters. ↗

— Alain Robert

#climbing #first #going #last #mean