Mean Quotes

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.

As we give, so shall we receive. Service does not mean self-sacrifice. It means giving the needs of another person the same priority as our own.

Because I have a little bit more, that means I'm better than you? No. Unacceptable.

Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.

To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.

People have every right to be offended -- but that doesn't mean they get to take away your right to offend.

I do love the idea of being able to take an MP to court for lying. There are ways and means of taking an MP to court just now, but it is very difficult.

I like to make my guitar sound mean.

Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.

They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye.

Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means.

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.

We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.

In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen.

I'm not in a rush to do anything. And I wouldn't say I pick and choose. When it comes to producers picking people for roles I don't think it's between me and Tom Cruise, do you know what I mean?

Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.

We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.

Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.

But it’s there. Just because I haven’t told anyone doesn’t mean it isn’t there, all the time, lurking in the back of my mind, like one those NSync songs you can’t get out of your head.

I mean it. Like, people always talk about how God doesn’t ever give you more than you can handle, but I’m telling you right now, I cannot handle this. This is just too much!

Experience means you did a lot of things wrong.

I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.

A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine.

Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.

I love Australia. I mean it's, how can you not? It's an incredibly beautiful country. I like the people, I like the country, I love it. I mean it's wonderful.

'Nice' means nothing. Is it someone who doesn't swear and shout? I swear and shout. 'Nice' sounds ineffectual.

You should be nice to people because it's better to be nice to people than mean to people, not because you think there's something in it for you.

Letting go doesn’t just mean letting go of the past, but letting go of an unknown future; and embracing NOW.

I mean, I am still such the-good-girl. I want everybody to like me. I want everybody to be happy.

Men gossip less than women, but mean it.

Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved.

We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble.

We're gonna have to sweeten some of these jokes for the CD. You know what sweeten means, right? Sweeten is a show-biz term for "add sugar to".

I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.

Everyone knows [George W. Bush] has no clue, but no one there has the courage to say it. I mean, good gawd, the man is as he always has been: barely adequate.

All of the advice that I give, I'm not an expert by any means, but it's just my opinion. So if somebody likes me or likes y style or my career, I think they should have that feeling.

We are still resisters, and we are still resisting the occupier militarily and culturally and by all the means of resistance. Repeat after me: No, no for the occupier.

Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange.

The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

Sure. I've never dated a woman of anything like that, But, I mean, I think it's much more the person that you fall in love with – and why would you close yourself off to fifty percent of the people?

Although it may seem like it, life will never give you more than you can handle. That doesn't mean it's going to be easy; in fact, quite the opposite.

I can't destroy things so beautiful." "Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something.

They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important -- everybody knows that; the TV tells you so -- but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.

There's an expression, deja vu, that means that you feel like you've been somewhere before, that you've somehow already dreamed it or experienced it in your mind.

I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.

Just because you have long legs doesn't mean you'll be happy as a Rockette.