Mean Quotes

What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

You can be a pharaoh. Like, a pharaoh means, that which you will become.

It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.

I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.

To be well-educated is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends.

As the saying goes, behind every great man is an even greater woman. I guess playing Hera [in Wonder Woman] means that I'm, well, not only Queen of the Gods, I'm better than he is!

To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.

When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.

Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls.

There is no hope for television by means of cathode-ray tubes.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world

If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better.

Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

The comic book world is so dangerous, you know what I mean? You say one thing and people - they're ravenous - they are very opinionated fans. But they're great fans.

Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means.

Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.

Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa." "What does it mean?" "You're beautiful.

The end doesn't justify the means.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

I'm by no means a perfect human being. I experience more than half of my life perpetuating darkness. That was because I was dropped in a place of darkness and expected to find a way out.

The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.

Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.'

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that: it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame.

My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.

If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better.

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.

My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone.

I mean, accidents happen. You learn from them and you try to make sure they don't happen again.

I don’t like to talk to people, because I can’t express myself satisfactorily. I don’t say the things I mean.

This historic Christian doctrine of the divinity of Christ does not simply mean that Jesus is like God. It is far more radical than that. It means that God is like Jesus.

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

You see, I, unlike you, have been made a prefect, which means that I, unlike you, have the power to hand out punishments.” “Yeah,” said Harry, “but you, unlike me, are a git.

But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.

The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.

Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.

Rapport? You mean like, You'll run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can?

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

Anything, and I mean anything, becomes a blessing if it drives us to prayer.

You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.

When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.