Mean Quotes

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe.

In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.

Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

To hope does not mean to know the future, but rather to be open, in an attitude of spiritual childhood, to accepting it as a gift.

If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights.

Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

By suprematism I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art.

Living with integrity means... behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.

To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge.

Being harmless means being so strong, so empowered, that the idea of showing power through harm is not even a part of your consciousness.

Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

I don't work so hard at trying to get every song to be three-dimensional and mean so much. I just want to breathe, right now, with the music.

Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern.

Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times - the pulse of today.

Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.

We live in what's called an open society, which of course means they open our emails, open our phone records, and open our medical records.

The moment you say, "We are proud. I'm proud to be this, and I'm proud to be that," what you're saying is we're almost as good as the others. "Almost" always means not quite.

An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.

Uncomfortable doesn't mean bad, uncomfortable simply means you're doing something you haven't done before.

I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see; you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.

Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.

Just because you forgot about your sins, doesn't mean they have been forgiven.

But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't.

Other women who flew were women of independent means. But I had to do something with it.

I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.

I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.

Image promises much but produces litte. Integrity, however, never disappoints. For me, integrity means living it myself before leading others to live it.

You could live it up and be successful, but it wouldn't mean anything without love and friends. I could go broke and still be happy because love is all I need.

To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.

Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.

Trusting God completely means having faith that he knows what is best for your life. You expect him to keep his promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary.

If you are not successful, that means you're not making enough mistakes.

Saying "I'll try" really means "I'm not really committed."

I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words.

Just because you've reached a certain level of success, that doesn't mean you've become corrupted by the system.

God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.

I mean, on the television, I've got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I'm a wife now. You can't really be bossy when you're married.

Gene Mean, look at our body. Cameraman, zoom!

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

An independent judiciary does not mean judges independent of the Constitution from which they derive their power or independent of the laws that they are sworn to uphold.

I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal.

The message of frustration is an exciting signal. it means that your brain beleives you could be doing better than you currently are.