Mean Quotes

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.

In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.

Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?

Yet [Dalai Lama] has said very strongly that basic freedoms of thought and speech have to be respected in Tibet and they're not at the moment. Tolerance doesn't mean accepting what's unfair.

The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.

Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may.

It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with sufferings.

where ther is drsire there is gonig to be a flame where there is a flame someones bound to burned just because it bruns doesn't mean your going to die you gotta get up and try, try, try

I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything.

Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture.

For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?

To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you.

Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.

More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

Only we big sinners have this grace of knowing what salvation really means.

We also try to reach out to people who are far away, via digital means, the web and brief messaging.

And does not true freedom mean choosing ways in this world that lead to the good of all and are guided by love?

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn't mean we have to wash each other's feet every day, but we must help one another.

Integrating in the Church doesn't mean receiving communion.

The enemy of the human race...invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation to the people.

It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.

The Church's teaching on ownership diverges radically from collectivism as proclaimed by Marxism and "rigid" capitalism. The primacy of the person over things joint ownership of the means of work.

If you climbed one step, it means you can climb the rest.

To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected.

Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets too.

It's kind of glorious to say, "Oh man, this guy had his career cut short." I'm not calling myself Sandy Koufax by any means. I'm not in that caliber at all, but sometimes it has to end different.

I've never been - I don't think I'm, like, a great A&R, by any means. I don't even know production lingo, in all honesty.

God is so angry. All that power, and so mean with it.

If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.

We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era.

(Slaughter) means blood and iron. [Lat., Coedes videtur significare sanguinem et ferrum.]

Listen,' Clover said. 'Don't worry about not being able to come back, I've lived both places, and trust me, you won't be getting the short end of the stick if you end up in Foo. I mean, candy alone.

Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.

Loving means getting rid of names.

Marketing of art is, and to my mind has always been, trendy. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there is any real long-term value. As an artist I do what I like. As a collector I collect what I like.

Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.

I can see a movie and believe the story and characterization and stay proud of it. It doesn't change. Even if it's unappreciated, that doesn't mean it can't be appreciated in the future.

Just because we live in a Christian era doesn't mean we're all Christian, necessarily.

I had imaginary friends and even they were mean to me.

Our stars are quite notorious. I mean, they don't show up on time. This is, you know, something which is very, very annoying.

You only get honest expression when I spit in your ear; That means even when I'm dissing you I'm being sincere.

Can you see me? Can you hear me? Does anything I say mean anything to you?

Strength times strength times strength times strength times strength times strength means power.

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.

Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?

What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he's done, and that's as good as any man ever gets.

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

I also remembered that you were beautiful." "Memory does play tricks on us." "No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.