Mean Quotes
Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we'll be scared of them, it means they have won.
War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. ... To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of victory is the secret of successful war.
My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.
The fact that there is no such thing as a perfect anti-sepsis does not mean that one might as well do brain surgery in a sewer.
To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.
Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.
Just because you are struggling does NOT mean you are failing. Every great success requires some kind of struggle to get there.
Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.
People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.
You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.
It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I could do beyond this. It's really a bittersweet kind of feeling.
Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.
The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a simple then-and-there decision.
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.
Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make their governments invincible.
More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible
Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.
What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.
After 9/11, people all of a sudden became patriotic and showed the colors. Why did it take something bad to happen? It means something. People have died for it, and continue to do so.
Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn't mean that you can't do something else and also make it sell.
I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.
I've heard it said that winning an Oscar means you live five years longer. If that's true I want to thank the academy because my husband is younger than me.
By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.
As regards my means of expression, I try my hardest to achieve the maximum of clarity, power, and plastic aggressiveness; a physical sensation to begin with, followed up by an impact on the psyche.
Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods
When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar picture but, instead, that it stimulates my thinking and intrigues me.
I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.
Have you seen that magazine Barely Legal? That means when you look at it, you're almost a pedophile.
I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.
Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.
Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
What does politically correct mean? If you're fat, don't ask me if you're fat, because I'm gonna tell you the truth. You're fat.
Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.
I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.
To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.
In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.