Mean Quotes

Sign over the gates of hell: "Doesn't mean you're a bad person."

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

History teaches that when valuations are extreme, "mean reversion," a move towards historical norms, is likely. Once value stocks turn, the recovery can be fast and intense.

I hear these people saying [Barack Obama]'s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested. I mean, it's crazy.

Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.

I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die

Ironically, in the full-fledged transfer society, where governments busy themselves redistributing income by means of hundreds of distinct programs, hardly anyone is better off as a result.

I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?

English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive.

Success on the outside means nothing unless you also have success within.

Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having.

Every child can learn, and we mean it... excuses are not good enough, we need results.

Just because someone thinks he is being attacked by the media doesn't mean he is. Many times the media actually is being fair, and they're attacking for good reason.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

When it comes to making commitments to other people, sometimes one of the hardest things to learn to say is no when we mean no.

The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.

Evil is not likely to result where people firmly believe that ends do not justify the means.

Britain deserves better than people who say they've got a quick fix but won't tell you what it actually means for Britain, we need a much bigger conversation than this.

I don't know. I always love to find where a character's heart is, and by that I mean where they're intrinsically vulnerable, and to bring that out in myself.

While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

All names mean something.

Liberty of thought means liberty to communicate one's thought.

Integrity... does not mean sinless, but it does describe a person who by God's grace "sin less."

That's what I mean by this sense of erasure. You're inside some event or spectacle and you know you're complicit in it, but there really is no external.

Choosing succulence is a deliberate act of personal revolution. It means waking up! Embracing your true self, studying your patterns, and letting out your most alive self. We all have one.

Work such as you will not have to have the money. Adore like you've got by no means been damage. Dance like nobody's seeing.

My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?

She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.

Energy literacy means you can see the waste in disposing of a plastic bottle after you've drunk water from some place on the other side of the world.

Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.

Just because something is easy to measure doesn't mean it's important.

Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.

You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value.

What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

Facebook and Twitter and these other social sites bring every, I mean, 140 characters. I mean, I'm on Twitter and I have fun. But I don't think anybody learns anything about me as a person.

I dress up with a conscience when I think you'll be watching. I say all the right things, I don't know what I mean.

Simply because something is not visible it doesn't mean that it is not there.

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

It's hard, really, to make any physical movement that hasn't been done in another film. If you grab someone's hand, it doesn't mean you're referencing other films with grabbing hands...

To see a man as beautiful – means to make him really beautiful. There is no cunning, no deceit; this happens every time, everyone knows that.

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

I'm a fan of hip-hop and I love it, I by no means am an expert on it.

The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the lending.

There is something very nice about coming to New York and how everyone smiles - even if they don't mean it. When I go back home to London and say hello to people, they look at me like I'm crazy.

There is nothing unholy or degrading about sexuality in itself, for by that means men and women join in a process of creation and in an expression of love

Sacrifice does not mean that, by giving, we lose something. We sacrifice our limited self to our highest and largest Self, and at that time we immediately become the largest and the highest Self.

Want, or desire, arises when you are not happy. Have you seen this? When you are very happy then there is contentment. Contentment means no want.

Sadhyojata means “creating every moment anew, knowing every moment new.’ We are used to a certain dimension, so this may go beyond you.