Mean Quotes

The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical."

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted.

Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything.

Forgiveness is a sign that the person who has wronged you means more to you than the wrong they have delt.

If everyone likes you, it probably means you aren't saying much.

I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.

We have seen pictures [of mars] where there there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

In our business, just getting to 40 means something...that's why I think sometimes you have to just live in the moment. You have to enjoy life to its fullest.

Falling into Place: deciding everything is falling into place perfectly as long as you don't get too picky about what you mean by place. Or perfectly.

Just because somebody swings one way and I swing another way doesn't mean he's better than me or I'm better than him ... Does my swing get hits? Yes.

I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.

If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.

Prizes do not mean anything to me. I think it is more important to make a child aware of the existence of a weird creature like a water spider that breathes through its backside.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

My style is mainly about comfort. It has to be comfortable, it has to lay right on me, know what I mean?

Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.

A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.

I don't really like jokes in a way. I mean gags are fine but I like weird moments where what you have isn't really a joke, just tiny moments.

Is God an end or is He a means?

Coffee is cheap, drinks are an audition, lunch is an interview, but dinner means business; the business of romance.

What I might have considered good, good doesn't mean every day is going to be perfect, you're not going to have bad breath, your hair is going to be in the perfect place.

Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

Everything in life is a risk! I mean, you walk out onto the street and it's a risk! Don't you think?

Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed.

Release what no longer serves you to create a space for that which does. And yes, sometimes this even means people.

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

Jason scratched his head. "You named him Festus? You know that in Latin, ‘festus’ means ‘happy’? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?

Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.

When I tap, it means I've accepted the technique, learned the lesson and look to apply the experience next time I step on the mat. I never give up.

I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.

The Mass-and I mean every single Mass-is heaven on earth. Literally.

Macro worries are like sports talk radio. Everyone has a good opinion which probably means that none of them are good.

I was always prepared for success but that means that I have to be prepared for failure, too.

A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it little or much. Every person can do that.

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.

Winning the war of words inside your soul means learning to defy your inner critic.

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

I mean, people don't know what race I am. They never know if I'm Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or white. I could play Jewish, I could play anything.

Right now, I do not like kids at all. I mean, I love my fans and everything, but when you have kids following you around all day, it's like, 'Ugh, kids!' Maybe that will change when I get older.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end it was never bound to be, and you just have to let go.

The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we refuse the proffered means of succor and redress.

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.