Mean Quotes

We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on.

The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.

Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do.

Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.

You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?

The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which, of course, means to write only when he has something urgent to say.

The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

Your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence.

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.

But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.

A Warder once told me Trollocs call the Aiel Waste 'the Dying Ground.' I mean to make them give that name to the Two Rivers.

Intimacy means "into me see"!

Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem

You take up energy towards someone because you think loving your enemy doesn't just mean caving into your enemy. It means first of all liberating yourself.

Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you rather meet the doctor than a machine?

I like travelling on my own. It means I'm completely free to think about what's around me.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

It's funny how bed and pillows and covers can change a conversation. Words turn quiet and you mean more and say less. It's like you can build your own little world, Population: 2.

Just because it may take longer, Doesn't mean your dream won't get done.

Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might mean.

Commercial music is music that a lot of people connect to at the same time, but that doesn't mean it has to be something shallow or without personality.

The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you choose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.

It's no good to lose touch with people who mean a lot.

So end-to-end encryption, keeps things encrypted and that means that law enforcement, without a warrant, cannot read that information.

Yoga is about life, this means all of life, not just part of it.

One hopeful sign that the filmmakers can learn and grow is that the sequel does not contain a single pie, if you know what I mean.

What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away.

What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?

To me, the lyrics mean more then the music, and that's the way it should always be.

People don't understand what term "selling out" means. To me selling out means if I were to stop doing this and go work for McDonald's then I would sell out.

Do you work for the government, any government?” "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you have to thank this audience.

They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.

They've certainly grown, the Japanese. I mean grown in stature, playing-wise.

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.

In a service situation, each delay can mean many unsatisfied customers, each one telling many more.

Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead. I found myself looking at my work as if I were at my own funeral.

More customers for Canadian oil means that Canadian producers can charge more for their oil, which then means that American businesses and consumers will pay more for oil.

You certainly have a higher quality of life when you are not on the Forbes list. It just means that your security changes, and you're known for the wrong things.

Could there be a better answer to the stupidity of Karl Marx than millions of workers individually sharing in the ownership of the means of production.

Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country.

I don't understand that about Taylor Swift, or about Joan [Mitchell] - how can she not say she's a feminist?! People don't understand what the word means. It simply means equal rights before the law.

Nobody ever talks about the mean things that girls do to each other.

Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.

I see so much beauty in people and in the world and when I see ugliness I try to either expose it or fight but also remind myself that it's mostly just people who can't spell who say mean things.