Mean Quotes
Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.
Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.
By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.
Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.
Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.
The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.
Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.
We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.
As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held by a leash; you can only fly so far.
During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results.
The transatlantic relationship is vital for both our countries: France will remain a reliable ally of the United States. Nevertheless, ally does not mean aligned.
It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.
Whatever power I have is nothing if I can't use it to keep safe those who mean the most to me.
Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined to poetry.
Because I have something to say doesn't mean everyone has to take it too seriously or get too upset that it rubs them the wrong way.
If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.
As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.
Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.
Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the line as you suffer the slings and arrows of ridicule.
Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.
A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making you guess what it means.
He’s harmless, poor thing. That’s what everyone said. It was true, but who cares? Lots of people are harmless, but that doesn’t mean I have to like them.
In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food.
There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.
I try to maintain a high level of coolness. Which means I've gotta look at lot of magazines. I've gotta look at a lot of ads to see what people want to wear.
If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into.
Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA.
To believe in Christ is to give your heart to Christ, which means not to affirm things about Christ, but it's like what you mean when you say, "I believe in my friend."
The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and so they struggled by all conceptual means to avoid it.
You only have to talk to artists to see that they work according to rules, and that they know all too well that they can employ only certain means to achieve the ends they want.
If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you obviously want that, that you find something wrong.
Dharma is a sanskrit word. It simply means that which is right, that which is correct, that which is the divine law.
Everything knows what is best for itself. That is what the Sanskrit word dharma means. Dharma means the best of all possible actions.
Dharma doesn't necessarily mean following a mundane and boring life. It means a life of high adventure, not a life of endless, boring repetition.
Certainly, you may have been hurt beofre in love, but just because you get one bad apple doesn't mean they are all bad - and you can learn from the difficult ones.
Selfless giving doesn't mean you let people walk all over you. You get a lot of footprints on your face that way.
Being on the path means we again meditate with joy. We deal with the suffering of life and the pain of existence without perfect enlightenment with a smile.
Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.
Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have to go and do anything to meditate.
To have the illusion of selfhood simply means that when you look in the mirror, you see somebody.
What does it mean to be psychic? Essentially it means to feel, rather than think all the time.
Being psychic does not necessarily mean seeing an event that has not yet occurred. It is rather seeing the inner nature of something.