Mean Quotes

Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.

I kind of grew up in a commune, but it wasn't a hippie commune necessarily, but it was a big house with a lot of families, we all lived together and it was the 70s, whatever that means.

Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past.

Free will is the thing you have to have if you're going to be responsible in this all-or-nothing way. That's what I mean by free will. That's what I think we haven't got and can't have.

I believe more than ever, machines will put new challenges, and that means we'll have to be more creative and more human, because that's the way to make the difference.

Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'

When I admit my own imperfections, it doesn't mean I am a bad person.

I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

Creating authentic power means aligning your personality with your soul.

In French you say, "I'm alone against the world" and that means "I hate everybody and everybody's against me."

But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear

Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.

You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work.

A concave chest means that your diaphragm is sagging.

If we couldn't dream, our lives wouldn't mean anything anymore.

If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.

The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.

Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.

Everyday happiness means you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot.

Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die!

I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

I called gold the ultimate bubble, which means it may go higher. But it’s certainly not safe and it’s not going to last forever.

First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill.

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

Tribal sovereignty means that. It's sovereign. You're a... you're a... you've been given sovereignty and you're viewed as a sovereign entity.

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.

I think the noblest thing you can do is ask for help. And I mean that about therapy. I mean that about dieting.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

Christmas means giving. The Father gave his Son, and the Son gave his life. Without giving there is no true Christmas, and without sacrifice there is no true worship.

When I say do your best, I mean your very best. You are capable of so much more.

I mean somebody with the wit and the guts to go and do and create. And, that I believe is what education is all about

I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

Trust yourself, because as Oprah says, doubt means don't every time

We have become a sloppy bunch of people. We say things we don’t mean. We make promises we don’t keep.

When your kids accomplish something it means much more than anything you've done.

The fact that someone didn't experience the war itself doesn't mean that he doesn't perceive its consequences.