Mean Quotes

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

The biggest lesson has been the importance of constantly repeating the mission. It means bringing the team together every week to talk about all of our projects, progress, and vision.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

I want to be a part of the grand plan. Being on board with God's objectives means I understand that this is not about me.

When God promises, He's not saying, I'll try. He means, I can and I will.

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.

Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.

There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed.

Just because I'm showing somebody being disemboweled doesn't mean that I have to get heavy and put a message behind it.

The failure to be perfect does not mean you are not a success; it is giving your best that helps you to understand the joy of receiving.

As long as somebody is guaranteed a certain number of sales you know you're gonna keep seeing these vanity projects. I mean they have a place, they serve a function they can bring people into comics.

I'm very, very thirsty for knowledge. Just because I'm good at something and have found success doesn't mean I'm done. I'm not even close to being done. I don't know if I ever will be done learning.

All progress means war with society.

Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.

Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.

Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'.

Integrity simply means not violating one's own identity.

I believe that anything can be for men or women. I mean, I've worn a lace dress before!

Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesn’t mean it cannot be managed.

Just because you may not see this big, grand show or you may not fall down a tree and all of a sudden get miraculously healed, that doesn't mean the miraculous isn't all around you.

Everybody has a mean streak in them, don't they?

For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.

Alloted duty means you should live full potentiality with which you are born.

Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.

The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.

Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.

What do you mean fainted? Took a dive, kissed the pavement. Swooned like a southern belle after her first kiss. Had a dreadful case of the vapors.

If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive.

The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Nothing would mean anything if I didn't live a life of use to others.

What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay.

Sales people should take lessons from their kids. What does the word ‘no’ mean to a child? Almost nothing.

Coming through the years, and finding that I not only have just the fans of my day, but the young ones of today - that's what it means, it means it was worth all of it.

It means a lot. It means I'm accountable.

Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.

God means just what He says and He will do all that He has promised.

While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.

It's very fun to be single, because you know what happens? You find yourself. You understand what it means to love yourself, instead of putting all this energy into give-and-tug in a relationship.

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.

My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.