Mean Quotes

My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.

What we're witnessing really is a political realignment, I mean I think we're moving from a traditional understanding of left-right politics that we've had for a long time.

Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you're capable of cheating, lying and killing.

Just because you have a hit doesn't mean you're good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.

Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can't do that!

Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.

Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.

To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace.

I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

Just because there's a trillion places to put an idea doesn't mean you don't need an idea in the first place

The best content is the means, not the end.

Sometimes maybe it's good to have someone doing a sci-fi show who's not actually necessarily from that background. It also means that sometimes I fall into the most elementary of traps.

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings are the police and it's just an outrage.

It means zero to be against greed.

I don't live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I'm in the situation where it's been given to me, but I'm very conscious of what is wasteful.

I'm also conscious of what this confidence that has been placed in me means. I'm going to the Games through the back door but I'm working everyday to exit through the main door!

In politics experiments means revolutions.

Industry and patience are the surest means of plenty.

Do not let fancy outrun your means.

Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.

Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.

Successful people inspire me, and I don't mean just in their career but people who have amazing families, or who have made a difference, or followed their dreams.

Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.

I don't believe government should take over, you know, the grocery store down the street or own the means of production.

Information doesn't mean a thing to people without inspiration.

Being successful means good results for the national team at first in the regional competitions like the Asian Cup and keeping in mind to go for Gold at a World Cup in the future.

The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.

When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.

Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.

B2B does not mean boring marketing.

I mean, if I was living to please people, I'd have never been in a band at all. I wouldn't have anything awesome around. I'd just be bored.

Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that's what you're feeling?

How do you know when an apology is true—when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

Just because people don't meet you doesn't mean they're not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.

In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.

Serving the emerging whole means paying attention to what's right here within my awareness, what's completely local, and surrendering to what's being asked of me now.

I think a handwritten letter - a lot of guys don't realize what that means. It's those little romantic touches that tell a lady, "I like a lot of people, but you have a special place in my heart."

Right now, after giving birth, I really understand the power of my body. I just feel my body means something completely different.

Just because you become a mother, it doesn't mean you lose who you are.

I mean the prime case that you can look at is Martin Luther King, who was only an activist for 13 years. But every year, he became deeper, more concerned, connecting more issues.

Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.

I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things.

I'm not an evangelical, because that means that I exclude the Catholics and main-liners, and Orthodox.

Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you get out there it's really steep and hard.