Mean Quotes

I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job.

If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.

The system of seeds based on monoculture is wrong and inappropriate. The biodiverse system has produced more food, and biodiversity means that seeds must be in the hands of farmers.

'Singin' in the Rain' was the one for me. Yeah. I mean, Gene Kelly could just sway and never fall. He'd just sway and sway as he danced.

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived

Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.

If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

I was very obsessed. I mean, I could tell you the fat content and the calorie content in absolutely anything.

To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.

When someone tells you it’s a grain of sand, there’s a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back and ask what the image is and what it means.

That's the crazy part about music, that you can just be someone and it means something.

It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.

Happiness means quiet nerves.

To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.

Poetry is a means of redemption.

One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!

To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.

The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.

Just imagine living on 21,000 a year. I mean you have 20 percent of the population doing that. So you don't have to worry about guys like me.

Eternal life means more than mere future blessing to be enjoyed by believers; it is equally a kind of spiritual ability.

Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds.

A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.

Commitment is taking the first step, even if it means falling the rest of the way down.

Prayerlessness means unavailability to God.

The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman.

The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.

Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan.

Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars

Since I was eight years old, I went to Trinity. I mean, I listened to Reverend Wright since I was a kid and I always heard him preach sermons of love and inspiration.

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.

Probably means there's a good chance. Possibly means we might or we might not.

Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike.

Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle.

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.

But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.

I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.

Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.

Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.

Ho Chi Minh sought to defeat both adversaries [French and American] primarily by using diplomatic and political means, combined with paramilitary activities.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.