#meant

Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys. ↗

— John Henry Carver

#being #controlled #days #elder #meant

Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy. ↗

— Sarah Chalke

#beings #human #human beings #lose #meant

I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#ceasing #down #gold #happy #i

Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended. ↗

— Edwin Starr

#cause #cubans #done #draft #enough

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#also #change #globalization #instances #many

I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated. ↗

— Glenn Close

#book #dated #filming #i #i think

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work. ↗

— Robbie Coltraine

#best #best work #buy #car #cars

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation. ↗

— Al Franken

#building #campaign #during #i #meant

This isn't meant to make me sound interesting and rock 'n' roll, but I wouldn't want to live with me a lot of the time. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#interesting #live #lot #make #me

When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#been #brick #brick wall #convinced #divided