Mean Quotes

Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there.

As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.

Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director.

You get the kids today into the sport, and then they can't get to the "next level." I mean, come on, that's a bunch of junk.

You don't think anything about age when you're playing [golf]. I mean, why would you ever think about that.

Strategy means making clear-cut choices about how to compete.

Just because you are the boss doesn't mean you are the source of all knowledge.

I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.

Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.

I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest.

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result.

What does it mean?" Emily said, in a low, panicked voice: "What does it mean if a rainbow comes before rain?

Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.

If freedom means anything at all, it is the right to primacy in regard to sexuality, reproduction, medical care and death.

Garner knowledge, by any means possible

We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.

Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side—if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.

For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.

I have a goal to be just the most craziest person of all time. And when I say craziest, I mean, like, I want to do like Olympic-level things. I want to be the most durable person on the planet.

And when I say craziest, I mean, like, I want to do like Olympic-level things.

Meditation means to awaken new dimensions within you.

Yoga essentially means finding the keys to the nature of the existence.

Devotion means who you are should merge with what you are doing. Otherwise, whatever your activity may be, it will not be of any great significance.

Yoga means union, that in your experience, everything has become one.

Devotion means a profusion of life.

Devotion means your limited entity has been dissolved; a much larger possibility has become a living reality for you.

Seeking means admitting that you do not know. Once you have cleared your slate, truth can imprint itself upon it.

Some people have concerns about what it means to leave our responsibilities to robots. I think to some degree in every family, you've got siblings who disagree over the care for their parents.

At the root of all the varied manifestations of dancing, lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we cannot extemalize by rational means.

At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.

The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.

There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.

To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.

For me, intuitive thinking means associative thinking; intuition causes us to introduce narrative or figurative elements into a poem before we're able to explain why those elements belong.

Every great tradition has told you that you were created in the image and the likeness of the creative source. That means that you have God potential and power to create your world.

Now that I'm a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that's what pleases me.

At all events, I do not mean to leave it unaltered.

The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

Recovery is an important word and a vital concept. It means renewal of life and energy. Knowing how and when to recover may prove to be the most important skill in your life.

For a much lauded writer, I'm not terribly self-absorbed. In social situations, which are difficult for me - I mean, this is an interview - I'm normally uncomfortable talking about myself.

We all age. You shouldn't discount it as a subject for a film. Just because the characters are dealing with issues that you might not deal with for another 45 years doesn't mean you won't like it.

I think it helps the writers to sell their books, if they announce my attachment, but it doesn't mean that I'm going to make the movies in the next year, or two, or three.

Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough.

The one word love means too little for what it is. It doesn't communicate even a fraction of the feelings involved. Love. The word is not enough for what it is. Love. Love.