Mean Quotes

I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you.

Those who don't say what they mean will live and die by their own sword.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

Even if a relationship is breakable, it doesn’t mean it isn’t worthwhile, beautiful, and all the things that we look for.

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.

Being humble doesn't mean you lose; it means you have won. Give the victory to others.

Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.

Most of the hotel gym's are not adequate. I mean you might be able to train your arms, but you aren't going to be able to train legs, back, or even chest if they don't have dumbbells and benches.

Being positive does not mean ignoring the negative. Being positive means overcoming the negative.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the one who will wage the war!

By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment

If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?

A high income job, a big house, nice cars, and lavish vacations don't mean you are rich, in fact it could mean exactly opposite

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.

Success means doing things you don't want to do.

Just because food is served fast doesn't mean it has to be made with cheap raw ingredients, highly processed with preservatives and fillers and stabilizers and artificial colors and flavors.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

Your life is what you remember. I mean, some things I wish I still had. But it doesn't matter.

In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.

We need to dream big dreams, propose grandoise means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had.

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

In general I don't like definitions, but 'Minimalist' is a term that means elegance and openness, so I would prefer to be called a Minimalist than something else.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

Just because something is hard doesn’t mean it’s impossible.

Going for refuge to Buddha,Dharma, and Sangha means that we apply effort to receiving Buddha's blessings, to putting Dharma into practice, and to receiving help from Sangha.

To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.

I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole.

The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures.

When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.

Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.

I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement.

Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this, that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man.

Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.

Incurable means curable from within.

Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.

Leave people alone when they tell you to leave them alone. If they mean it, they need it.

Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life.

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.

It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort

I say there are spots that don't come off.... Spots that never come off, d'you know what I mean?

My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?

I don't think about what other people expect or anything. I mean, I sit and worrying so much about what I'M thinking, I'd go NUTS if I sat around worrying about other people.

The ultimate quality of your life is not in your resume, but in the minds and hearts of those you mean something to because you gave yourself to them.