Mean Quotes

Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve.

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

When people asked me, "Do you get high to go onstage?" I could never understand the question. I mean, I'd been high since eight that morning.

A campaign is a disagreement, and disagreements divide. But an election is a decision, and decisions clear the way for harmony and peace. I mean to be president of all the people.

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

What does remembering ourselves mean? It essentially means coming back to life- re-membering.

Even though I smoke, just because I'm a dumbass doesn't mean anyone else has to be.

My favorite word is existentialism. I can't say it and I'm not quite sure what it means.

With the Internet, if you erase something it just means you have to spend another half-minute to find it.

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

The great rebalancing -- what does recovery mean today?

I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, shes inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw.

The Greek word for idiot, literally translated, means one who does not participate in politics. That sums up my conviction on the subject.

The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.

Just because you can't see them and you can't hear them, that doesn't mean they're not here.

This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell.

If they [peple] really hate you, that means you're doing something right.

$5,000 means nothing to me! I did about $5,000 worth of damage to that nose of his!!

Being REAL means showing people who you are underneath all the TV make up too.

And when someone makes a statement you don't understand, don't tell him he's crazy. Ask him what he means.

The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.

A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.

Being thankful and saying thanks are two habits of people who've discovered what it means to succeed in life.

My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.

Evolution is the most important battle that Christians have to fight today, a battle we must win by any means, fair or foul!

Pure womanhood plus priesthood means exaltation. But womanhood without priesthood, or priesthood without pure womanhood doesn't spell exaltation.

For many young people mobility has turned into a bus down to the job centre.

To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting boldly is better than acting knowingly.

If the roof caves in and the tenants are sitting in the debris, they will laugh like hell. They will endure any hardship as long as it means trouble for the landlord.

Having something like an Australia points-based system means we control immigration and bring in the skills that we need.

Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.

I believe that visualization is one of the most powerful means of achieving personal goals.

B.O.Y. means ‘Beware of You’… Be aware of your power. We have the choice to live positively or in our own destruction.

Just because people say no to you, doesn't mean you should say no to yourself.

To be a Marxist does not mean that one becomes a Communist party member. There are as many varieties of Marxists as there are of Protestants.

To be baptized means to make the passage with the people of Israel and with Jesus from slavery to freedom and from death to new life. It is a commitment to a life in and through Jesus.

To tell a man who has no realization that he is lost, that he may be saved by faith in Christ, means nothing to him, however true and blessed the fact is in itself.

I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad therefore you've been a part of it.

Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details.

Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.

All you have to remember is 'audition' is synonymous with 'opportunity. I mean, if you absolutely hate auditioning, do you also hate opportunities? That wouldn't make much sense.

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.

Near the end of his life, Henri Matisse's preferred attire was evening wear, by which I mean pajamas.

The mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is.

Do I know what rhetorical means?

Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed.

I think the notion of success is fairly destructive. You can see elements of this surrounding any band becoming too popular. On the other hand, survival means you are doing fine.