“And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.”

“Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.”

Ali Smith (1962) Scottish writer

“We are faced with the curiously appalling trend of modern thought, in which the absolute which was once a means of entering into communion with the divine, has now become an instrument used by those who profit from it, to distort, pervert, and conceal the meaning of the present.”

Karl Mannheim (1893–1947) Hungarian sociologist

“To me justice doesn't mean looking for the criminals. It means looking for the innocent.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The story of crimes, war criminals, search for the missing people and justice, have become the meaning of Edvin's actions.”

Edvin Kanka Cudic (1988) Human rights defender

“We sleep when we fall. We only sleep when we can’t move anymore. That’s juvenile. But it means everything. It’s the illusion of progress. Staying awake isn’t progress. The illusion is enough.”

Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher

“People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age.”

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

“….. It means everything. It means I love you. It means I want you. It means I want you to be okay. It means everything.”

Diana Peterfreund (1979) American writer

“I mean everything you did (on offense) was predicated to where he was and what he was doing.”

Lawrence Taylor (1959) All-American college football player, professional football player, linebacker, Pro Football Hall of Fame member

“We need a social theory that sees all social phenomena, including itself, as being partly the product of how people in a community deploy semiotic resources: how we mean, and what we mean, by every meaningful act.”

Jay Lemke (1946) American academic