Mean Quotes

Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.

Office of itself does much to equalize politicians. It by no means brings all characters to a level; but it does bring high characters down and low characters up towards a common standard.

Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.

Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless diversity, scarcely any monstrosity.

Laughter means sympathy.

We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place.

I am a big advocate of what is known as net neutrality. This means that providers are compelled to transmit content without political or commercial pre-selection.

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.

If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.

Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.

The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.

Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.

Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary for good government... Therefore schools and the means of educating the people should always be encouraged.

Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage.

To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.

At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to have an experience of separation from others.

Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage.

I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated, and even when they are true, they always mean less than they seem to.

What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else, in order to gain campaign contributions and win votes.

Government central planning means over-riding other people's plans.

If you ever see the director pulling people aside, that means something's not working. Because you're trying to figure out why it's not working. But we would show up, we would talk about it.

I always feel like the less you say when you're making a movie, as a director, is the best. That means everything's going great.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, ever started a revolution playing by the rules

This is what it means to be in the middle of love, I thought. Being in the middle of love is like being in the middle of a war zone.

Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.

In golf, just because a person is big and cut and ripped, doesn't mean they have a physical advantage.

Because I'm dangerous. I don't mean to be but I am. I'm dangerous to be around, dangerous to everybody. I cause harm. I might even harm you. And I couldn't bear that.

I do think that philosophy and science are very different intellectual enterprises, but that does not mean that when we get knowledge from philosophy it is a different kind of knowledge.

When it comes to dressing, comfort is overrated. A little discomfort probably means your clothes fit and they're not pajamas.

I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.

One thing that I learned is this - once a Braves fan, always a Braves fan. No matter what. And as a player, that means more than you could understand.

Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means.

Do you have to feel something for it to be real or mean anything? Can you touch your dreams, taste your imagination.

I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be.

I'm probably the most uncool guy that [my daughters] know-as far as they are concerned anyway-'cause I'm Dad. I mean dads just aren't cool-especially when I dance! They don't want me to dance.

I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of the same things we remember.

Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.

I'm not gangly; I'm very coordinated. I do have a bit of a baby face. But I guess that just means I'll be working longer.

I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues.

People can make symbolic gestures but doesn't mean their life changes. One philanthropic moment doesn't make a life of renewal; of change.

A parenting program should provide time for parents to clarify their own ideas about what it means to be an effective and successful parent.

Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your cries.

When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to love. But in Christian conception, God really has love as his essence.

The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.

The primary means-of-reviva l that everyone agrees upon is extraordinary prayer.