Mean Quotes
The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support - the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.
I'm very authentic, I think, and what I mean by that is whatever roles that I do take on, I'm really passionate about it.
Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident. I mean, look at the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, or Botox.
If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.
Break into Alton Towers! I would… break into McDonalds. And I would kiss everyone. On the lips… before I left the world. I mean, man and female.
Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median - it's in the differences that occur throughout a population.
For small business men and women, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.
Twitter is like hugging. Just because it's hard to measure the return on investment doesn't mean there isn't value there.
A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament.
I became a tabla-player at the the age of five. However, I should have learned singing also. I mean I know about singing, but I have been never practicing it.
To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
I mean, look, no matter how you feel about Bush, watching him speak is difficult. It's like- it's like watching a drunk man cross an icy street.
The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.
I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
Nothing is sadder than the consequences of having worldly standards without worldly means.
The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
Sometimes, we should maybe sit back and look at all we have. It's because of golf and the tour. I mean, this life we lead is unbelievable.
I'm always looking for directors who are very strong, they have great ideas, but on the other hand, that need help. It means they rely mostly on my eyes.
And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?
How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.
You might not agree with something, but it doesn't mean you don't need to listen to it. White people have to accept that they don't always know about racism.
When you are in doubt, wait. Fall back on the contemplation of your vision, and increase your faith and purpose. And by all means, in times of doubt and indecision, cultivate gratitude.
Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.
Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.
But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.
I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.
Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process.
The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.
The collisions happen 40 yards down the field, so if you take off from 5 yards or 10, it does not even matter. Do I make sense? I mean, come on.
If you believe something, you can have a morality that means something as well. You can feel recognized as an individual within the universe; it can give meaning to who you are.
The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.
I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.
To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.
Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.