Mean Quotes
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.
The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.
An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.
When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.
Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces
Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.
Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends.
Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?
Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.” -R. Daneel Olivaw
I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.
I think that we live in a moment in time where people have a lot of information about a lot of people kind of instantly, but it's all sort of surface information and it doesn't really mean anything.
Girls aren't mean to guys in high school. They are mean to each other. Girls were never mean to me.
There are many ways to portray darkness and evil and it isn't all in being mean and tough.
A lot of the things I say I'm just trying to be funny... I don't really mean everything I say, because I'm not totally that airhead.
I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.
Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything.
As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.
We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
I'm always telling my students that the weirdest thing is the truth. I mean, the fact that we get up in the morning and put on clothes is weird.
When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.
As long as the League of Nations constitutes only a treaty of guarantee for the victorious nations, it is by no means worthy of its name.
If we have only one that can govern, and we chose him... does that mean we're not democratic?
It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
I often say to my assistants, "Never trust anybody," but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.