Mean Quotes

Each and every part of the world is a snare for the fool and a means of deliverance for the wise.

The Democrats can engage in the most reprehensible, mean-spirited, vile, vicious verbal attacks known in politics, and they get praised for it.

Are any of you out there worried that it means something bad that [Donald] Trump has decided not to prosecute Hillary [Clinton]? I'm just asking, because I'm hearing from people who are.

I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but, its not who you are.

If you're to the point where you're trying to overcome that means you're at the point where you've admitted that you have a problem, and that might be your strongest point in the addiction.

By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

When I'm feeling confused by my awakening process, that usually means I'm on the right track.

I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.

Just because I disagree with you doesn't mean I'm disagreeable.

Just because people don't trust people doesn't mean [they] don't like them. There are lots of paranoid people in the world. You figure out their personalities and make them work.

The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.

Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.

Sooner or later usually means too late

As for "Don't be evil," we have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good-always do the right, ethical thing. Ultimately, "Don't be evil" seems the easiest way to summarize it.

It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't measure well by conventional means.

By all means, fire the customers who aren't worth the time and the trouble. But understand that the moment you insist the customer is wrong, you've just started the firing process.

Being a Mountie's daughter means you know that the bad guys aren't just on TV. You know the good guys are real, too.

Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.

I've not had a mean life.

I'm definitely a crier. I get really emotional if someone's being rude or says something mean about me.

The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass me; I'm intolerant towards your over-proximity.

We all deserve to be congratulated, but sadly that would mean there's no one left to do the congratulating.

I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

By one means or another, the swiftest method of rejection of the holy prophets has been to find a pretext, however false or absurd, to dismiss the man so that his message could also be dismissed.

Where love is thick, faults are thin. If you really love someone, then it is difficult to find fault with him. His faults seem negligible, for love means oneness.

Success means crossing a limit. To cross a limit you need to assume that you have a limit. Assuming a limit is underestimating yourself. If you have no boundaries then where is your success?

I think if I were a superhero saving the world, I'd expect at least not to have to pay income taxes. I mean there should be something in it for a hero who risks his life to save mankind every day.

To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.

The [economic crisis] means that we have to address the challenges and the risks, and we need to take into account the level of resources. Doing better with less means doing it more together.

And even if she says no, and really means yes, then quite frankly she's playing games and isn't worth the price of dinner.

Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.

My dear boy, you are under a wrong impression. It is not a race, it is merely a means of getting crews to do long rows

By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.

Forgiveness essentially means giving up your right to make other people pay for the wrongs they have committed against you.

Not everything in life can go perfectly according to plan. I mean I didn't keep every girlfriend I ever had.

My baby she's a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.

Blind don't mean you can't, you know, listen.

If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.

The whole world can believe in you but that won't mean a thing if you don't believe in yourself too.

Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.

The one's who were mean to me are now nice to me.

Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.

Does that mean you're prepared to deal with whatever turns up? People aren't sometimes. When they learn the real truth, they're all of a sudden content to live with a lie.

I don't know, I don't pay attention to critics anyway. They either like me or they don't, you know what I mean? I am too long in the tooth to worry about that.

The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.

Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon.

We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young.

I get scared easily, so I'm not one for just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching horror stories. But, I mean, I'm learning more. Maybe one day I'd like to be able to watch them.

Most of my life is just spent lying in bed. I mean, it's enough pressure to write the words. Do I need to use the additional energy exerted by sitting up?