Mean Quotes
If I am intuitively led to buy and read a book, what that means is that there is something there that will help me grow spiritually.
When you are not making the present moment into a means to an end, you also are not making every human being you meet - in your business and even at home, in your family - into a means to an end.
Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.
For most people on the planet, consciousness can be equated with thought. They haven't experienced what it means to be conscious without thought, or they have only for very brief instants.
The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you're trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.
The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran ... in one shot on his website he appears to be dressed only in flowers. Oh - here's the page, you'll see what I mean.
My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.
I don't like cliques. I used to go out a lot in London with friends. And London can be very cliquey. I mean if you don't belong to one set you don't go to a particular party.
Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)
To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse of what I want.
Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.
For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.
The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.
I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.
I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full of interesting language, experimentation, and ideas.
The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader and the reader who opens that bottle becomes the addressee of the literary text.
The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business and art at the same time.
Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.
We have the means and we have the technology to end mass surveillance without any legislative action at all, without any policy changes.
When people talk about Web 2.0, they mean that when the Internet, the World Wide Web, first became popular, it was one way only.
Technology provides us means outside of governments to begin enforcing our rights, enforcing protection of civil liberties, regardless of law, through the implementation of systems and standards.
I started at GM knowing very little about that particular business. Not being an expert means you have to learn everything, starting from the basics.
As a matter of fact I trade in accordance to my means and always leave myself an ample margin of safety.
People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.
To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.
I mean, how many men would have gone on to the floor of the House as Carolyn Maloney did and wear a burkha to show the fight of Afghan women.
The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens.
Every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.
When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.
I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.
I'm always working out; I did ice hockey in high school, but I'm not a dance person. I mean, this was horrible, but I had a dance double in my high-school musical.
We know what war means, and we know what poverty means. We need to develop a better model for reaching out to the world than we have.
There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.
Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion.