Mean Quotes

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.

To be compassionate in this hurting world means it will cost you something.

I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.

Sometimes it will be for more money than I've ever been offered before. I mean, am I an idiot again for not doing that?

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always.

People think that because they've seen your name in print, you're rich. I assume that. But all it means is that there was some intrepid interviewer who bothered to give you a call.

Just because the kid's cute, doesn't mean you're not the father.

Just because you can't see something, doesn't mean it's not there.

Sometimes you're wrong, but if I'm a repeat customer, it means I must have valued the past experiences.

I write songs so that people can make them into what it means to them as well.

To make a start, out of particulars and make them general, rolling up the sum, by defective means Sniffing the trees, just another dog among a lot of dogs.What else is there? And to do?

By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.

By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.

I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!

Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.

But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.

No more rhymes now I mean it!” “Anybody want a peanut?” “AAHH!

I just know once you're over your emotional outbursts, you'll come up with-' I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something,' Westley said.

Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.

Making a mistake means overshooting a scene, shooting too many takes, for instance. Long after you've got it, you just keep shooting.

It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on it.

You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.

What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.

There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.

Just because you can't do everything, it doesn't mean you shouldn't do what you can.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If 'is' means 'is and never has been' that's one thing - if it means 'there is none', that was a completely true statement.

Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American.

Just because we cannot do everything for everyone does not mean we should do nothing for anyone.

Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.

Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse

Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.

Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

I am on the whole a defender of the current, despite being a conservative. I mean, I think things are better than when I was younger.

It always amazes me when people go rent horses and ride them. You mean you want me to pay you to ride a horse?

Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.

We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.

I don't trust a lot of popular films because they seem to indicate that people would like to be super-heroes or vampires, and that's the last thing I mean by the useful mirror of art.

To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.

They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage; the requisite Means being wanting.

The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.

Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.

Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.

What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something.

Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected.

Some falls the means are happier to rise.

The spirit of a youth That means to be of note, begins betimes.

A pal is one that is aware you while you are, understands where you have already been, accepts whatever you are becoming, and continue to, carefully means that you can develop.