Mean Quotes

There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.

I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.

Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know.

Mary means enlightener, because She brought forth the Light of the world. In the Syriac tongue, Mary signifies Lady.

Impossible means that you haven't found a solution yet .

Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture.

Your success, your life, your happiness. Don't let mean people bring that down.

Creative success means balancing your love of starting things with a habit of finishing them.

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.

Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.

This means that any aliens would also be affected by Adam’s sin, but because they are not Adam’s descendants, they can’t have salvation.

Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again.

Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.

Someone asked me yesterday if Dracula met Saruman and there was a fight, who would win. I just looked at this man. What an idiotic thing to say. I mean, really, it was half-witted.

Impressionism means taking inspiration directly from nature, trusting your senses rather than what you think you know.

Well, I mean, taking time for your art is taking time for yourself, isn't it?

I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Pascal… like all great astronomers mathematicians of the past.

Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.

Help means ruin and saving means slaying.

Careful, luv. I might be angry with you, but that doesn't mean I don't still want you. So if you do that again, I'll shag you right here, right now, and sod anyone who wants to watch

Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.

The words that are coming out of my mouth and how I mean them, it's so much different.

Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

Integrity means that if our private life were suddenly exposed, we'd have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means that our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

You gotta school these young macks comin' up today... I mean to be 'frank', they just hot dogs, The girls are relish, and they need to catchup on they pimpin'.

Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a precious vehicle, is time.

There's nobody quite as mean as people being mean for Jesus.

The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development.

To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game.

Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel.

As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?

The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.

Spirituality means to put your evolutionary process on fast-forward.

When I talk about forgiveness, I mean letting go, not excusing the other person or reconciling with them or condoning the behavior. Just letting go of your own suffering.

Jesus called us to abide in Him. The foundation of this reality means to talk with Him.

If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.

Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy.

For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit.

Snobs look down on people, and I look down on everyone. Not in a snooty, classist way - I mean because I'm better than everyone. I don't give a s**t about good manners.

The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.

Aphrodite: Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart. Percy: But... I don't know where it's going. My heart, I mean.

I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.

Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.

Prayer is the noble supplication which we lift up to the throne of the Most High. It is the most efficient means to obtain from God the graces which we need.