Mean Quotes

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.

The people are not always well-informed, but is better that they have misconceptions that make them restless than that they be lethargic-for lethargy in the people means death for republics.

It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end.

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying Him.... The more a tree is like itself, the more it is like Him.

For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.

There's a mountain of information about us. I mean there's so much. Anyway, I'm not an intelligence person. But I just look at it and it's a mountain of data.

Man, I didn't think I stood a chance. I mean, she was way out of my league.she still is.

I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.

Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.

By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.

What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn't used to have to do that. But now I do.

You can have a million dollar, 20 million dollar budget or 60 million dollar budget, and if you don't have a good script, it doesn't mean a thing.

I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage

All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.

I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear... I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, 'My wife told me to wear this!' And I just shake my head.

Discipline means looking beyond the appearance, beyond that which is visible and acknowledging one Infinite Cause.

I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.

It's a national concern, I mean how we dispose of nuclear waste in a safe way, how we deal with this incredible amount of nuclear waste we have created over the years.

Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.

Political doesn't necessarily mean you have an agenda.

We have a whole generation of men who don't understand how much they mean to their kids.

I mean, anyone can let Danger out but the really clever thing is finding somewhere for it to go afterwards.

Just because I'm country music don't mean I don't have a little bit a' soul down in there somewhere.

I mean, I would hope that I have a style or personality that is evident wherever I go.

Some people around you don't mean you good.

Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

Just because I'm a younger artist doesn't mean I can't work with a veteran and vice versa.

There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.

To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westerners about what the market really means.

I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we're always on the bike and it's quite difficult.