Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you're lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you're in a healthy ocean. You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don't see sharks.
My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.
If I had to name one thing that probably causes more conflict within the band, it's probably the fact that I'm the girl, and it takes much longer with hair and makeup and wardrobe. But they've gotten used to it. It's one of those things I think they realize that when they say she'll be ready in 10 minutes, it normally means 15 or 20.
Jihad expands Islam's domain by any means available.
Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time.
The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.
The fact that most kids aren't eating at home with their families any more really means they are eating elsewhere. They are eating out there in fast food nation.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!
I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.
Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.
Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington.
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have to change something.
That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.
Whenever the government says, 'It's time to move on,' that means there's something they don't want you to know about.
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
Hyeon means sunshine. Seo means good fortune. I chose it so that I would live my life in light and warmth and not return to the shadow.
When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
Golf is meaningless, but it means so much.
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
I am from the Netherlands, so that means we like to stick to the rules, and we like to stick to the deal, and we like countries to do what they have promised.
When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone or write a letter to a friend. And it's similar with new technologies.
If I somehow felt like having a site which strictly validates was an indication of my manhood, maybe I'd do it, but it really means very little to me. We're mavericks over here, what can we say?
You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more.
'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.
Music was a means through which I could meet people and sort of begin the process of exploring who I was or who I could be.
The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.
Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine. But if being an oligarch is about buying football clubs, it is not for me.
The very fact that you thought of it means that, somewhere in your mind, it's believable to you. All you have to do is convince your audience that it's possible.
I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one.
