Mean Quotes

What does sharing music mean? It means playing it for people.

Proliferation of fanatical religious terrorists with safe harbors in broken countries, and the means to obtain and the will to use nuclear, chemical and biological weapons on our soil.

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then that being is no more than a means to our end.

Pau is one of the best big men in the game. I mean, Pau Gasol is going to be in the Hall of Fame.

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.

I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.

I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good

[Non-Catholic Christians are] in a gravely deficient situation in comparison with those who, in the [Roman Catholic] church, have the fullness of the means of salvation.

To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us.

Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little.

One must choose in all things a mean just and good.

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

Why marry? If you're not married, you just leave each other and it's cool. Who needs the paper? To me it means nothing.

I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

Doubt means don't. Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward.

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.

Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.

That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

Sometimes you don't have to mean to hurt someone to hurt someone.

One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state . . . Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.

There should be a word that means beginning/end because nothing begins without something dying.

COOPERATION means to be willing to sacrifice for the sake of others

Service is life. No service means, spiritually no life.

To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.

Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself.

When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.

If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.

People say law but they mean wealth.

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

Well, I'm a 14 handicap. Anyone who golfs knows what that means.

Marriage to me means unity, it means strength because I believe that both people can be stronger in their calling because of each other.

I feel I am a players' coach. The only thing that means is I care about my players more than anything.

It hit the damn papers that I was being chased through the woods with dogs and choppers. I mean, who the hell are we after here, John Dillinger? For Chrissakes, I'm just a lowly guitar player.

No failure means no risk, which means nothing new

The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday.

To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master.

The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.

Some people want tolerance to mean now that all ideas are equally valid. That's nonsense. There are some things that are right and there are some things that are wrong.

I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.

The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now

Ladies love me, girls adore me I mean even the ones who never saw me

Conventions are, by nature, a party. I mean, that's why people become delegates. They come from all over the world to exercise their democratic rights and to party.