Mean Quotes

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else.

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.

I do just want to be an actor. The thing I get out of it is actually doing the job and inhabiting the world and the role - and I mean that genuinely. That's what I'm in it for.

When it comes to success, it will come when it comes. A delay does not mean a denial.

Feminism means to me being comfortable with who you are as a woman and being unapologetic about it.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

[on the BMW X3] If you are clinically insane, by which I mean you wake up in the morning and think you are an onion, here's your car.

Being an entrepreneur means that you are sort of inventing something new. You're giving birth to a company. You're giving birth to a new product, a new service. And that's always exciting.

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while.

Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]

I mean to retire, where nobody will have heard about my special skills. And conversation is mainly about the weather.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

Happy Valentine's Day! And if this is news to you, my guess is you're probably alone. Valentine's Day is often times a, well, it's a manufactured day that really doesn't mean anything.

The building of a just society means overcoming every obstacle to the creation of authentic peace.

Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line)... It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the new territory as their own.

God has great plans for you today... creative and unexpected means by which He will make you a saint. He needs only your joyful submission to His plan.

I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?

To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.

Being oppressed means the absence of choices

Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.

This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted

On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?

My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally.

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.

I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

To believe when all means fail is exceedingly pleasing to God and is most acceptable.

When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.

The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion.

The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.

Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.

It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.

For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.

There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.

Loving means being open to miracles, to victories and defeats, to everything that happens each day that was given us to walk upon the face of the Earth.

The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.

Yeah, me and Q-Tip is cool outside of the business, but you know, within the business sometimes it can get ugly, you know what I mean?

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

The pope is becoming a missionary, you will say. Yes, the pope is becoming a missionary, which means a witness, a shepherd, an apostle on the move.

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. -David Richo A rolling stone can gather no moss

I wanna be somebody. I mean, I am somebody. I just wanna be a rich somebody.

How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.