Mean Quotes

I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling.

If you mean, "My gut feeling is telling me this; therefore I can act on it and I don't have to worry," we say you should never trust your gut.

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

We are human, which means we have the potential to make things different.

Forgiveness doesn't mean forgetting to remember, but remembering to forget.

I'm in a body, and when my sleep ends, I'm awake. I don't really understand the... that's not really a choice. I mean unless I chose to stay in bed, but I'd still be awake.

An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.

Things can be low on the food chain, but that doesn't mean they're lowly.

I know that Oprah and I mean a lot to each other... I know at all times I have somebody that I can count on always.

The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.

Words without action mean nothing. I’ll show you.

Today the term "global" can no longer constitute a serious topic for an in-depth intellectual discussion because it simply means "Camerica".

The total wall is between editorial and newsroom. And unbreachable barrier. For good reason. It doesn't mean the two sides don't talk.

Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane too.

Just because we form an opinion about ourselves, or anyone else, doesn't mean it is true.

Foreign governments are going to be poring through all these Donald Trump tweets looking for - to try and discern what it means for foreign policy.

I don't have anything good to say. World Golf Championships, I mean that suggests they're going to be played everywhere, and they tend to not be played in very many places.

[A digital snapshot] is meant primarily as a means of communication, and the images being sent are almost as ephemeral as speech, so rarely are they printed and made physical.

Confit is not something that comes to mind for summer. Usually it means duck confit, made by cooking the legs and thighs in duck fat to preserve them for winter.

Reading means borrowing.

My taking pictures means I'm taking a series of pictures which become an essay and then get extended into a book. That's what's exciting, to take an idea and work it through to completion.

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

The instruments of war can be manufactured ... human blood cannot be; and the lack of just one pint could mean the life of an American serviceman.

Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?

Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?

The captain has just turned on the fasten-seat-belt-sign. He didn't mean to, but the joint he was smoking fell in his lap, and when he jumped up, his head hit the switch.

When people asked me, "Do you get high to go onstage?" I could never understand the question. I mean, I'd been high since eight that morning. Going onstage had nothing to do with it.

Like on the airlines, they say they want to 'pre-board'. Well, what the hell is 'pre board'? What does that mean? To get on before you get on?

Broadway isn't a very big career move. There's no money in it and it doesn't mean anything to your career. It's just a nice little jewel in the crown.

I've been in relationships where I've felt terribly alone. Just because you're with someone, it doesn't mean you're happy.

Everyone makes moral choices that better themselves and hurt someone else along the way - and whether or not the means justify the ends. And that, to me, is universal.

I don't know if winning at any cost is wrong or not. There are times I've thought that the end justified the means.

I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.

What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

Woody [Allen] is a fascinating character to be around. You don't really know what he's going to want. You're on your toes, but you're on your heels too, if you know what I mean.

Prabhupada's definitely affected the world in an absolute way. What he was giving us was the highest literature, the highest knowledge. I mean there just isn't anything higher.

Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.

By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.

Hee that sendes a foole, means to follow him.

Just because we play in the NBA or coach in the NBA doesn't mean we are not human. We are supermen. For me, getting shot is scary.

The only thing to worry about is the damage that can be done by worrying. Why are some scientists worried? Perhaps because they feel that to stop worrying may mean to stop being paid.