Mean Quotes

The more security we have, the less freedom there is; more freedom means less security. You can hardly enough of both at the same time.

In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can't mean that in the judicial context or we're in real trouble.

I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?

After you have made your commitment to say no to what no longer serves you, you will probably be invited to demonstrate that you really mean it.

Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"

It somehow became an article of faith on the right that Obama is the most extreme president in American history. Although, when they say that, I think what they really mean is...he's black.

I think there is a danger there of being mean to people and humiliating people and embarrassing people just because it might get you ratings. It is a disturbing trend.

I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind of thing Mr. Huxley described in "Brave New World."

I just mean people who seem unavailable in the sense that they're not prepared to totally cling to anyone. I'm very attracted to people who are basically free spirits.

I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.

Do not waste your time with people who have shown you they really mean no good for you.

I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.

FACTS Fact #1 Mean people suck. Fact #2 Bad things happen to good people. Fact #3 Good doesn’t always prevail over evil.

Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it.

Living entity is food for another living entity, it does not mean that I shall eat my children also. There is discretion.

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

Trapnest means “The Trapped Den” Once we enter it, we can’t get out by our own means I thought that that name could only come from a man who love having power over other.

Light means nothing to a blind man.

There has been grave error. I do not mean so much error of doctrine as error of emphasis.

In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.

All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.

Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.

We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.

Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.

Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.

To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.

Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?

when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn't even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.

Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God's.

You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they're sorry? They do mean it, but... there's nothing to say. There's a void that cannot be filled.

The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday.

I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.

I mean, I really, really love playing solo. Definitely, it's like a labor of love, it's not a huge career. It's not that successful, but it's something I love so much that I'll do it regardless.

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.

In truth, a leader should either apologize, mean it and do something about it - or not apologize at all.

You just have to keep going. I mean I think our job, my job, is to keep articulating that I exist and that there are lots of people like me exist and we just have no home.

As a believer just because you gain more fame or authority doesn't mean anything, this means you have more feet to wash

The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled.

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means.

I was very driven, very focused, very ambitious. I mean, when I look back on myself in my 20s, part of me just cringes.

All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.

I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.

It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.

A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.

One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.