Mean Quotes

The Bible doesn't speak of "women's rights" in the social-political language we're used to hearing today. Still, that doesn't mean the Bible is silent on the subject.

You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock. -Clary Fray to Jace Wayland

Gideon touched her cheek, lightly, with the tips of his fingers. “Did you know your name means ‘wisdom’? It was very well-given.

Be nice to people whether you mean it or not. You never know when a kind word can make a difference in another person’s day – or maybe even his or her life.

a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.

I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

Our public schools need to be in the control of parents and the community, as opposed to businessmen who see the $23 billion budget as a means to giving no-bid contracts to their cronies.

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.

Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it's good here, it can be very good here.

Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.

I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because that's who they are.

Ours is a bad, bad world, but does that mean nothing's good? Does it mean we have run out of things for which to be grateful? No, no, a thousand times, no!

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can

I care about our employees more than anybody in my company. I care about my kids, too, but that doesn't mean I give them everything that they want.

Atheist n. A person to be pitied in that he is unable to believe things for which there is no evidence, and who has thus deprived himself of a convenient means of feeling superior to others.

Business is about belonging which means inclusion is the new black.

My story, or my life or my legacy can hopefully show [fans] that once you’re down, that doesn’t mean you’re down forever. You never let up.

I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.

I couldn't tell people what I wanted to do because I was from Atlanta. You don't tell people you're gonna be a comedian in Atlanta. That means you ain't gonna do nothing.

Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.

I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.

A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum

Do you realize that I have had five albums in the Top 30. Elvis and The Beatles have never done that. I had five singles in the Top 5, I mean, no one's ever done that.

We went sailing one time, and he wore a Speedo, and any smart woman should know that means bisexual at least.

I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.

..."And then we played Ping-Pong—” “Not pool? I always assumed he was a billiards man—I mean, it’s so handy the way he keeps a stick up his—

Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism.

I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.

I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can't have 'em sittin' around.

The practice of democracy means that I, one person, one humble person, nevertheless feel some responsibility if the officials for whose election I was responsible go too far out of line.

I don't get it when girls say 'I'm fine' but don't mean it.

And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook Because my hand thinks I'm an artist But my heart knows I'm a poet It's just words they mean so little to me.

To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

To me, 'selling out' means everyone bought a ticket.

Here at CBS, spring also means March Madness. I love the name March Madness. I'm glad the PC police haven't made us change March Madness to early spring psychosis.

It's a great day for Sarah Palin. She was hired as a commentator for Fox News. She signed a multi-year contract, which means she'll probably quit after a year.

When I say that Zen is life, I mean that Zen is not to be confined within conceptualization, that Zen is what makes conceptualization possible.

Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.

Having faith in God means trusting in Him even when everything inside of you wants to take control.

Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another.

Words mean little unless you realize the truth of it yourself. And when you do, you'll be free at last.

I have one phobia, snakes. And by snakes I mean intimacy.

Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true.

The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean.

Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?

I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's a funny thing with 3D, I haven't quite got it yet. Yet.

I worked in Toronto for two days. And by work I mean sit in a trailer for 15 hours, say two lines, and leave.