Mean Quotes

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement.

That got me a look so intense I was unable to interpret it - like the way cats sometimes fix on you. What they mean by the look is completely beyond understanding; but it's meant for you, you alone.

I mean, you take a look at this, it's one way. [Mexicans] get the jobs, they get the factories, they get the cash, and all we get - we get illegal immigration and we get drugs.

The fact that a former senator and secretary of state claimed not to know what the letter "C" means is just one more example why she is totally unfit to hold the office of president. Totally unfit.

There's some very good medias. And I have to say, Fox has treated me fairly. And I don't mean good, but they've treated me fairly. I don't want to be treated good. I just want to be treated fairly.

I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world.

A great means to preserve continual peace and tranquillity of soul is to receive everything from the hands of God, both great and small, and in whatever way it comes.

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked. He looked at me as if I were stupid. 'You die, of course. That's what deadly means.

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.

To me thinking outside the box means; crossing disciplines and pulling in expertise and perspective from outside of the standard boundaries.

I have never seen snow and do not know what winter means.

Just because something has tubes doesn't mean it's the best. I mean, tubes are obviously good, but the circuit of this thing is designed well and it sounds good.

Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion

It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.

Sir James Jeans Always says what he means He is really perfectly serious About the Universe being Mysterious.

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.

Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.

Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself

You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.

Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature.

Honey bees are amazing creatures. I mean, think about it, do earwigs make chutney?

Because I know war... because I know the horror, I don't want to add to it. .........After the war, we felt the need to celebrate life, and for me photography was the means to achieve this.

Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.

The rule of law doesn't mean the police are in charge, but that we all answer to the same laws.

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things.

Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.

I was there when God was put on trial....At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than 'guilty'. It means 'He owes us something'. Then we went to pray.

To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.

Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.

The cross means suffering. Suffering's meaning is to be learned through the cross.

I worked with patience which means almost power.

It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?

I won't have a hard time being brutally honest. But I won't be mean. You don't have to be mean to be honest.

Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.

He who assists a poor or needy villain does evil to his neighbor...for through the assistance which he renders he...supplies him with the means of doing evil to others.

Those other 10 o'clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean?

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

My mom lost her dad at a very young age, and has this sort of belief system of, you know, "If there's something that you want to do, if there's something that means a lot to you, do it now."

I'm a big music fan, an admirer. But I mean by no means am I about to release an album or anything.

Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.

A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.

Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself.