Mean Quotes

I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.

Part of being who you are has to do with feeling your feelings, which means you'll have a wide range of emotions--not just constant sunshiny happiness.

If I'm not learning from something that I'm doing, then that means I've done it before. Do something different, even if it's within the same medium.

For me, clothes mean self-expression. You need to have an audience and connect with people. Fashion is shared. It connects people. And we share an experience beyond the clothes.

To be in Vogue has to mean something

Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.

Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar.

No one can control his emotion of love for a woman ... the sentiment he feels, I mean, but the strong man controls the demonstration.

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

A poem should not mean but be.

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

When the true qualities of photography are recognized, the process of representation by mechanical means will be brought to a level of perfection never before reached.

The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one’s fingers.

To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other

I wouldnt mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly dont want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.

Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind.

There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.

Outwork the bullshit. That means nothing can rattle you when your conditions are set. And the way you set those conditions is by working damn hard.

To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole.

People should allow themselves the opportunity to really know what the unity of God means. To grasp a part of the nondivisible union is to grasp the whole.

True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.

The Americans are good about making fancy cars and refrigerators, but that doesn't mean they are any good at making aircraft. They are bluffing. They are excellent at bluffing.

There is a Greek word that is called "Praxis" and that means the integration of your beliefs with your behavior.

Conversion does not mean a change of outward appearance; rather it requires a change of mind and results in a transformed life.

I see no reason that a golf course cannot be played in 18 birdies. Just because no one has ever done that doesn't mean it can't be done.

When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of perception beyond his individual body.

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.

When you come before spiritual master, be prepared to get chastised. Spiritual Master's business is to do that. Shisya means who is ready is accept 'sashan' or ready dor getting chastisement.

Just because you are going to Heaven doesn't mean you have Heaven established in you. Success is Heaven on earth.

You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and hard work if you mean to succeed.

Melancholy is kind of sweet sometimes, I think. It's not a negative thing. It's not a mean thing. It's just something that happens in life, like autumn.

I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don't mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.

Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

I mean, you know, while I'm acting on stage I'm ranking quite high, but in a room with Barack Obama I'm probably into negative digits. I never feel very famous.

Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.

All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get.

Surviving a tough situation means staying in the fight and maintaining a warrior's mindset.

The mental secularization of Christians means that nowadays we meet only as worshipping beings and as moral beings, not as thinking beings.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

Some say the economy means that you have to persuade people to invest in clothes - to buy less things but more expensive things. I disagree - invest in jewelry, or a house, maybe, but not in fashion.

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

There's only one way to break the color line. Be good. I mean, play good. Play so good that they can't remember what color you were before the season started.

When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously.

Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.