Mean Quotes

What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?

The means of many outweigh the means of the few or one.

I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time.

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.

the Bible is used as a means of reinforcing their [women's] subordination to men through divine sanction.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

I always want the audience to identify with my character in some way. I mean, sometimes you'll get characters that aren't very identifiable. Sometimes you can't relate to your character at all.

When I say the people around me, I mean the prisoners, the guards.

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.

I didn't mean to send love letters, but that is what they became. On their way to you, my words turned into heartbeats on the page.

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track.

We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

You would never do stand-up without an audience. I mean, no one would even consider it. It's like they're the instrument you're playing.

In reality, humility means nothing other than complete honesty about yourself.

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?

Time and time again we have experienced efforts directed toward this popular and simple concept of securing peace by means of disarmament.

The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

Planning other people's actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.

Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.

I wouldn’t necessarily say she is a country artist. I mean, obviously Taylor Swift started in country, but she morphed into somewhat of a cultural icon, so, who am I to judge what she is?

Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.

A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.

Meditation is the only means to the harmonious development of the body, mind and soul.

Meditation is a means to discover all the glories of the ocean of mind

Patience means self-suffering.

A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.

Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.

Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

Prayer must mean something to us, if it is to mean anything to God.

At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.

Everybody spies on everybody, I mean, that's just a fact.

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.

Gandhi said the end is inherent in the means, which means you cannot create any more peace than you yourself have attained. An angry generation will not bring peace.

Liberation also means that even though I'm a woman I have masculine parts of my temperament which I can safely explore and integrate into my experience.

I came to the conclusion then that "continual mindfulness". . . must mean, not a sergeantmajor-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness to accept whatever came.

A lot of times being "completely objective" means seeing the world through a patriarchal eye.

Creating opportunities means looking where others are not.

...and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything

Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet the air.

It means the world to me to represent the Hispanic community.