Mean Quotes
Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.
A good conspiracy is unprovable. I mean, if you can prove it, it means they screwed up somewhere along the line.
It's impossible to talk without labels. "Dog" is a label, but that doesn't mean it's meaningless, nor does it mean there's no difference in a Shih Tzu and a Doberman.
If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn't mean that you are living in the wrong country or at the wrong time. It simply means that you have the wrong plan.
Equality means equality for all - no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.
When you do 10 interviews in one day, and 10 different sources want to talk to you, that means you're doing good. I think about that every day.
The Bible is the divine means of developing spiritual maturity. There is no other way.
Forcing victims of sexual harassment into secret arbitration proceedings is wrong because it means that nobody ever finds out what really happened.
A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.
To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.
I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry.
Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.
People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.
We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.
Dogs are minor angels, and I don't mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally , forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy
Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.
In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.
Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.
Strength means...acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart.
Knowing that Ricky Gervais will never work again means a lot to me. I'm going to make sure of it.
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know?
I have no Facebook page or Twitter - I don't participate in it, and I don't like it particularly. I mean, it's a form of interaction, which strikes me as extremely superficial.
Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to pay whatever it may cost.
If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But never, never believe it.
Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
When you become an artist you're working away from home for so much time. You really see what the use of time means to you once you're an artist and you travel so much.
Image isn't everything, It's what comes from your heart, and what you learn and what you say and how you act that means more than anything.
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
Spiritual blossoming simply means blossoming in life in all dimensions - being happy, at ease with yourself and with everybody around you.
People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.
I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it.
I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night and some guy comes up to you and buys you a drink and says that the last record you made changed his life. That means something.
The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.
I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah.
God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.
Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side of myself, my unconscious.
There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either