Different Meanings Quotes

• F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

  Zig Ziglar

  Running, Fear, Forget Everything

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• Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

  Blaise Pascal

  Different, Effects

  Blaise Pascal (2012). “Pascal's Pensées”, p.38, tredition

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• The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Love

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.114, Penguin

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• Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Silence, Different, Kind

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Large Edition”, p.175, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

  George Herbert

  Wish, Literature, Hell

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.146

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• The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Thinking, Painting

  "Jackson Pollock" by Francis V. O'Connor, (p. 79), 1967.

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• Islam does not mean peace. It means submission. The word "peace" for Muslims has a different meaning. Peace, according to Muslims, will be achieved when everyone submits to Islam. Muslims can't offer peace. They can offer truce. In their minds, peace will be achieved only when you are subdued and they are the masters. Any other arrangement is not Islamic.

  Ali Sina

  Islamic, Mean, Mind

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Every time you use the phrase all my life it has a different meaning.

  George Carlin

  Life, Different, Phrases

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.192, Hachette UK

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• Pulling a gun's trigger can be an appalling act. But if it is suicidal drawing fire to save someone, it has an utterly different meaning. Placing your hand on someone's arm can be an act of deep compassion or the first step of betrayal. The punch line? It's all about context, and the biology of context is vastly more complicated than the biology of the behavior itself.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Betrayal, Suicidal, Gun

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Common sense dictates the term hot fudge sundae has a totally different meaning in prison.

  Dana Gould

  Common Sense, Hot, Different

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• If I sing "you broke my heart, you left me flat," everyone knows exactly what that means - they know the story. But if I sing a line that's plaintive or wailing, people can experience their own set of emotions and their own story. Each of us might give that phrase a different meaning. It's open to interpretation, and one song becomes a thousand songs. I love that.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Song, Mean, Heart

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Words can mean different things to different people. It is important to understand what people mean when they use a certain word. Let's make an example. Take the word gay. Fifty years ago, gay meant exclusively cheerfulness, lighthearted excitement, merry or bright colors. Today this word has a different meaning. You won't call a cheerful person gay because it could be understood as something else.

  Ali Sina

  Mean, Gay, Color

  Source: myislam.dk

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• A classic liberal is more like a libertarian. I'm sorry. Classic liberal, actually, from the 1800s has a totally different meaning than a liberal who is [modern] classic.

  Glenn Beck

  Sorry, Different, Libertarian

  "Beck on O'Reilly's Interview With Jon Stewart". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'reilly, www.foxnews.com. February 5, 2010.

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• Muslims have different meanings for the same words that we use. They are so convinced of the "truth" of Islam that they do not perceive Jihad/terrorism, or dhimmitude as violence.

  Ali Sina

  Islam, Use, Violence

  Source: myislam.dk

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• All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective.

  Ian Curtis

  Different, Individual, Interpretation

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.

  B. F. Skinner

  Variables, Way, Different

  B.F. Skinner (1969). “Contingencies of Reinforcement”

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• Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Different, Likes, Repeats

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• When there's light shining on a tree, that tree takes on different meaning. If there's no light at all it just looks dead. If you look at light as godly meaning, the world comes alive in a certain way.

  Matisyahu

  Godly, Light, Shining

  "Babylon calling". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

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• I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a better meaning than I thought, and perfectly valid, given the words that exist.' So part of what makes a song really good is that people take in different meanings, and they apply them, and they might be more powerful than the ones I'm thinking.

  Paul Simon

  Song, Powerful, Writing

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• There are several different meanings of the words "religion" and "spirituality," all of which are important. The whole point about an integral or comprehensive approach is that it must find a way to believably include all of those important meanings in a coherent whole.

  Ken Wilber

  Important, Different, Way

  "Which Level of God Do You Believe In?" by Ken Wilber, www.beliefnet.com. September 2004.

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• If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.

  Eric Liu

  Years, White, People

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• First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.

  Daniel Yergin

  Vocabulary, People, Firsts

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• You didn't happen to see your future mother-in-law at that meeting today, did you?" May as well milk the effort. "Yes, the hormonal carp was present." "Marshall!" "She blew me a new one, as you would say.""She ripped you a new one," I correct. "The word blow has an entirely different meaning. I suggest you remove it from your lexicon.

  Addison Webster Moore

  Mother, Blow, Law

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• The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.

  Norman Borlaug

  Agriculture, People, Different

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

  George Orwell

  Patriotic, Justice, Democracy

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”

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