Mean Quotes

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.

Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.

Asking doesn't mean you lack wisdom - it's evidence of wisdom.

Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.

Everyone wants a more simple tax system. But if this means that certain tax breaks have to be cut, people are no longer so enthusiastic.

Sharia is derived from Arabic, and it means an "oasis." In the desert, man needs the oasis to survive. Sharia is not like any other religion or law, because Sharia is an entire system of life.

Perhaps like the many and various meanings of the word "we," liberals use the word "unsubstantiated" to mean "tested repeatedly and proved true."

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.

[The democratization of luxury] means more people are going to get better fashion. And the more people who can have fashion, the better.

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.

Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

The present is passed over in the race for the future; the here is neglected in favor of the there. Enjoy the moment, even if it means merely a walk in the country.

Being liberated means reading what you want to read, and fantasizing about what you want to fantasize about.

What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?

What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.

For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth wilfully refuse the means of grace offered.

I'm very arrogant and mean. I'm almost like a bad guy professional wrestler.

Silence means they [the audience] are paying attention. Even if I drop bombs and they're dead quiet, it's still okay. If they start talking, that's when you've lost them.

I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.

Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.

A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.

This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

Non-linear means it's hard to solve.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

I have the greatest husband. The baby is my main focus right now. We're both so excited. I mean, this is definitely the happiest moment in my life.

I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available.

Each, in its own way, was unforgettable. It would be difficult to - Rome! By all means, Rome. I will cherish my visit here in memory as long as I live.

A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.

Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil.

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.

The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.

Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don't take a break.

As we shave it happens that we cut ourself with the razor blade; this does not mean that we must not shave in the morning any longer. It is the same thing for yoga.

Reason doesn't mean very much in a country like North Korea.

The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all kind of mixed up.