#means

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy. ↗

— August Strindberg

#because #demands #energy #every #evolution

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#clerk #faculty #favourite #frustration #get

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. ↗

— Billy Graham

#according #adventure #dictionary #excitement #extremely

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#although #any #except #felt #fondness

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#advocated #except #i #means #never

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#avenue #brand #done #harlem #know

Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco. ↗

— Bill Gross

#human #human nature #institutions #lose #means

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#cool #fingers #happens #i #jerk

For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#anita #beginning #book #built #each

Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can. ↗

— Rupert Sheldrake

#any #anyone #cannot #coming #coming home