Mean Quotes

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.

You could have the world in the palm of your hand, but it don't mean a thing 'til you change it.

The law of your mind is the law of belief. This means to believe in the way your mind works, to believe in belief itself.

The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does.

Nerves are natural, it means you're ready to face a challenge and perform.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.

I still say if the ball is there to be won I will go for it, whether with my head or whatever, and if it means us scoring or stopping a goal, I won't think twice.

Failure means you've now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success.

A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.

Is the mean temperature of the ground in any way influenced by the presence of heat-absorbing gases in the atmosphere?

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.

Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right.

Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.

I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.

We find or invent the cleverest means of attributing our sins to anything or anyone outside of ourselves.

If someone's not attacking you that means you're not doing your job effectively.

Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.

Living to glorify God means doing everything... for Him, His way, to point to His greatness and to reflect His goodness.

Women were afraid of me, they were scared to death. But I always say be yourself, if you're funny then let your sense of humor go there. I mean there's no sense hiding what you feel.

There's not much to say about acting but this. Never settle back on your heels. Never relax. If you relax, the audience relaxes. And always mean everything you say.

Make your influence a good one. Act in a way you would be proud of even if the whole world was watching, because your example could mean the world to just one person.

Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.

Your life in every way should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah.

Being strong does not mean that you never fall down, but that whenever you fall, you get up again.

The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come to relish the texture of that diversity.

I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Desire means never quit.

Education is the art of helping young people to completeness; for the Christian, this means education is helping a young person to be more like Christ, the model of all Christians.

Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things.

If I had means, I would like to spend half a year in Palestine in order to contemplate what has been, and half a year in Poland in order to preserve what remains.

To conquer the command in the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat.

That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.

To play for Barcelona, means to have an opportunity for a brilliant career. But to reach the top of it, you have to play for Real Madrid.

I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

Grace comes into the soul as the morning sun into the world: there is first a dawning, then a mean light, and at last the sun in his excellent brightness.

The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way.

Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.

It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.