Mean Quotes

The people are only tools, a means used by God. But they are not the sourse of help, aid, or salvation of any kind. Only God is. The people cannot even create the wing of a fly (Quran, 22:73).

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

You shall love peace as a means to new wars - and the short peace more than the long.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

It was not one folly that Shakespeare talked about. If Love truly is but a myriad of follies then I have committed them all, that can mean only one thing - I loved her truly, madly, deeply!

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our conscious minds.

What would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore?"

Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.

What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.

Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.

Just because I'm presented life in a certain way doesn't mean I do all these things. It's just something I choose to express.

I was always told that if people don't want a picture with you, or they don't want an autograph from you, that doesn't mean you're not doing anything good.

To simply sit here and know the tenderness of being alive means being drenched in love.

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

The great thing about change, is that it absolutely, positively, always means things are going to get even better. Even when you don't know how.

Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.

If you just live totally, you will dissolve lots of karma. Living totally means that you experience anything that comes fully and intensely.

Proud meaning that... proud means we have to be one till the end eh? Till the end we have to be proud?

Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.

No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.

My buddies, we've always just tried to make each other laugh. I mean, just like all friends hanging out - that's the goal.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

Being daily better informed about their knowledge than my adversaries themselves, I argued till finally one day they applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force.

The indulgence of one sin opens the door to further sins. The indulgence of one sin diverts the soul from the use of those means by which all other sins should be resisted.

When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.

When you are given immunity that means that you've probably committed a crime.

Just because it’s a unique perspective doesn’t mean it can’t offer something universal.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.

Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon; and if any of these Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed.

Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.

The experience of happiness is a direct means of replenishing life energy and revitalizing the mind.

Automatic simply means that you can?t repair it yourself.

Maybe I think you're cute and funny. Maybe I wanna do what bunnies do with you, if you know what I mean.

I don't get why my fans call me yummy. I mean I'm not a sandwich!

If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.

You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.

My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.

Remember that the reader's attention is yours for only a single instant. They will not use up their valuable time trying to figure out what you mean.

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective.