Mean Quotes

My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.

He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.

The word courage comes from the French word 'coeur', which means heart. True power proceeds not from force, but from love.

I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.

When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong - or you are absolutely right.

The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.

Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.

To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.

I enjoy people who aren't afraid to say what they mean. It makes life so much easier!

I do my best hitting when I'm walking. That means I'm relaxed and my pitch recognition is a lot better.

Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?

Europeans should pay more attention. Iran has called for dialogue and is moving in the direction of reaching an agreement through peaceful means.

Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.

We prefer to find mates who are roughly as attractive as we are, which means they are more likely to stay and not look for a better offer.

People try to start things with me because of who I am, and I know that means I have to stay away. Its definitely racial.

The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.

As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it.

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.

Take your risks now; as you become older, you become more fearful and less flexible. And I mean that literally. I hurt my knee this week on the treadmill, and it wasn't even on.

If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.

Look how great we are. We are to blame for everything in the world, which means we are really, really important.

Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.

Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day - respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.

Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.

Memories mean more to me than dresses.

When Jesus says you must leave your family to follow Him, he doesn't necessarily mean physically. He means leave your dependence on them, make an emotional break with them.

I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!

Living simply means concentrating on what's important in light of eternity. And not taking the rest of life too seriously.

The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.

I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you.

Less cars on the road means productivity and jobs growth, as it allows for the more efficient movement of goods and services and encourages greater urban population density.

I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff.

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.

They say that at that moment you didn't do this, you didn't do that, but at that time I didn't have the means. I didn't have an army to stop the killings. I'm not Moses, I can't do miracles.

I would like to sit and and write some acoustic stuff. That's what I want to do. It means creatively, that's what I want so I need to do that for myself and then I'll see.

I mean, look at us. We're all alone in my bedroom and I'm not feeling any urge to make any kinda move on you. That's a pretty big problem.

When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.