Mean Quotes

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

Never use a warning when you mean undo.

Yoga is a means and an end.

Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.

America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.

Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That's not a bad thing.

Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?

[This upset] means that means Donald Trump now has to transition to governance.

Citizenship means standing up for everyone's right to vote.***

Nobody's madder than me about the website not working as well as it should, which means it's going to get fixed.

Working full-time should mean enough to support a family.

This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal.

[J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right.

These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the new black.

No deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East.

Michelle [Obama] never fully took to the scrutiny. I mean, she's thrived as a first lady, but it's not her preference.

I think that the Democratic Party is a big tent, which means that there are positions I may not agree with.

American politics is always somewhat fluid. In this age of social media, it means that voters can swing back and forth.

One thing both men have in common is a love of golf and a shared knowledge of the word "mulligan," which means a do-over to replace a lousy shot.

You always hear about waste and abuse in Washington. And usually it doesn't mean much, because nobody ever finds where that waste and abuse is.

Just because Iran and Syria may recognize Assad's weaknesses doesn't necessarily mean that Assad recognizes his weaknesses.

The Balkanization of the media means that nobody is having a single conversation with a single set of agreed-upon facts and assumptions the way you had as recently as the 90s.

In the first two years, when I had a strong majority in the House and the Senate, we were as productive as any administration has been since the '60s. I mean, we got a lot done.

Keeping our military strong means keepin' our families strong.

I think it is important that we are targeting HIV/AIDS resources into the communities where we're seeing the highest growth rates. That means education and prevention, particularly with young people.

If you want to be a leader, it doesn't mean that you have to have an opinion on everything. But if you do have an opinion and it is clear and you feel strongly about it, then you should say it.

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.

War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars. ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks.

It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.

When you're up in Maine, there is Canada, I mean it's looking right at you; it's a different viewpoint.

I'll get laughs in the places I don't want them and that makes me realize the direction I want to go in. I don't mean to get too deep into comedy here.

Sometimes you're not getting the laughs you want or at the place you want but that doesn't mean it's not funny. It means you haven't explored it enough.

Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.

This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore.

It just means that if someone hates you, they still have feelings for you. If they really didn't care about you, they'd just forget about you. They wouldn't even waste the time hating you.

Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.

I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.

When you talk about cooperation, it means cooperation between two legal governments, not cooperation between foreign government and any faction within Syria.

This is cooperation [with Hezbollah, Iran , from Russia], I don't know what you mean by support. We have cooperation with countries for decades. Why talk about this cooperation now ?

I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.

You keep life on a short leash.” “What’s that supposed to mean?” “You’re scared of what you can’t control.

Don’t panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. “You mean you can feel happy or sad or—” “Desire.” A barely-there smile.

Your name?” I repeated, hoping it was my imagination that my voice faltered. “Call me Patch. I mean it. Call me

Do you think the Bible is accurate? I mean, do you think it's real?" " I think Pastor Calvin is hot. In a fortysomething way. That pretty much sums up my religious conviction

When you say 'state' you mean 'national.' National Socialism. That is what Mussolini and Hitler did. National Socialism. State Capitalism. They've changed the name.

The best part about using success as revenge means no 25 to life.

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.

Remember, care is a dimension of love, but simply giving care does not mean we are loving.