Mean Quotes

The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.

Then do you mean that I have got to go on catching these damned two-and-a-half pounders at this corner forever and ever? The keeper nodded. Hell! said Mr. Castwell. Yes , said his keeper.

To have strength without knowing how to use it means nothing.

Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.

Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.

Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything.

If you wish to be positive, which means youthful, never speak of the past any more than you can help.

When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.

A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

...and when you’ve known me longer, you’ll learn that I mean everything I say.” “Even the lies?” “Especially the lies.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

Miss Grantham gave a shriek. 'You have trifled with me!' she said, into the folds of her handkerchief. 'You promised me marriage, and now you mean to cast me off for Another!

Some people are naturally thin and some people are naturally heavier. It doesn't mean that bigger is healthier, or much thinner is healthier, it's on an individual basis.

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.

The people I work with are like family. I don't mean this in a nice way.

I personally translated the word 'vendetta' as Italian for 'What do you mean, "you want to see other women"?

To permit surveillance to take root on the Internet would mean subjecting virtually all forms of human interaction, planning, and even thought itself to comprehensive state examination.

Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart and mind.

Debt means you had more fun than you were supposed to.

Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper."

Hey, when I said work fast, I didn't mean your friend, I meant the maid.

Everything you want is cheap or free. If you went to a venture capitalist and said: "I need money to buy tools." You flunked the IQ test, I mean every tool that you need is free!

Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.

Occasionally one speaks... of signals or signal chains. It should be noted that the word signal means the transmission of signs and hence concerns the very principle of causal order.

Your value is nothing if you cannot honor your word. If you do not mean what you say, you are the most mean person on the Earth.

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.

Say and do what you mean, but never say and do it meanly.

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

Don't let anything like trees in the Clearwater National Forest get in the way of providing jobs and fueling the economy, even if that means cutting down every last tree in the state.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.

Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven.

We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.

Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works.

My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.

I'm a risk-taker. It's where my passion lies, so I don't want to play it safe. That means I'm going to fail sometimes.

Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.

Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.

I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a nonconventional war. It means that you've got to use every tool you've got available to you...

Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.