Mean Quotes

Arabs and their allies are conducting a total war against Israel. A total war means a war of lies. The PA [Palestinian Authority] promotes lies; lying in Islam is permitted.

[D-Day] means to me a beginning of the freedom of Europe. The freedom was the achievement of the military adversaries of the Germans.

Our stand is that of the proletariat and of the masses. For members of the Communist Party, this means keeping to the stand of the Party, keeping to Party spirit and Party policy.

I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I'm doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example.

I am on the side of pluralistic societies, and I will do whatever I can - by the best means available and any means necessary - to protect spaces that encourage open communication between people.

But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.

Usually, the energy in elevators is so awkward; I mean, I cant imagine the politics in the ones in the Conde Nast building.

Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.

My city and state are Rome. But as a human being? The world. So for me, "good" can only mean what's good for both communities.

I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.

Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.

We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction.

You can mean more than one. You can mean thousands. I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you. I'll pretend you can hear me. But it's no good, because I know you can't.

Where there's a doctor it's always a bad sign. Even when they are not doing the killing themselves it means a death is close, and in that way they are like ravens or crows.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means whatever you say it means.

Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"?

The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

Hope doesn't mean anything. ... Action's the only thing that counts.

Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored

Birth control is the means by which woman attains basic freedom.

I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.

If I'm nervous, it means I had to work hard to get there, whether it's playing in a tournament or speaking at an event. So I try to stop and be proud of getting to live in that moment.

I'm strictly a movie person. I mean, I watch the HBO documentaries and Netflix.

Nice Kerrick was scarier than Mean Kerrick.

I'm not for the villains, I'm only for the princesses. I mean it's fun to have Jafar [Aladdin cartoon villain] or whatever; I didn't even remember their names 'cause they're not important to me.

Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing.

Rethinking capitalism means rethinking the role of the public sector, the role of the private sector, the role of finance, and the relationship between them all.

The globalized nature of production and innovation means that the benefits don't necessarily stay in the country where the investments are made.

To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and be like a woman and receive equal respect, honor, and compensation.

Relationships never end, because they're of the mind; only bodies can separate. When you're missing someone, know it just means that on a soul level they've come to visit.

Faith doesn't mean you don't have to do the work; it just means you're absolutely certain the work will pay off.

Real liberation for men means that they can explore and integrate their feminine aspects of consciousness.

The end does not justify the means. If we try to be someone we are not in order to achieve a result, then the result cannot help but be something other than what we intended.

The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

Just because you've failed once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything.

I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.

I think when I say universal, it means making a project that everybody can enjoy but also a project where they're getting closer to you.

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.

There is nothing more flattering than a woman to say 'I'm a fan' or 'I think you're beautiful.' I don't know why, but it means a lot to get a compliment from a woman.

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.

I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.

You're trying to dramatize events to tell a story most effectively. That doesn't mean the events aren't true, it just means you're making them as dramatic as you possibly can.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

As long as we're honest and not mean, it's all fair game no matter what you say.