Mean Quotes

Definite speech means clarity of mind.

Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.

The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.

One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that preceded the poem.

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.

"What did the pope say? I like the pope. I mean, was it good or bad?"Because if it's good, I like the pope. If it's bad, I don't like the pope.

Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently.

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

I mean, most fun things are bad for you in one way or another.

Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

Tears don't mean you're losing, everybody's bruising, Just be true to who you are

I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.

Style means no shield at all. Style means no front at all. Style means ultimate naturalness. Style means one man alone with billions of men about.

You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.

Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let’s see something to prove it.

To me, Calvinism means the placing of the eternal God at the head of all things.

Being in love doesn't mean loving.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

[For constructive conflict,] we have to resist the neurobiological drive which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves.

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.

Aggressive accounting does not mean illegal accounting.

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

I don't wait till stage to use my sexuality. My zipper's down right now. I mean, I use it all the time.

Not every story has a happy ending, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth telling.

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. ... Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target.

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.

Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.

Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper.

Winning means everything...You show me a good loser and I'll show a loser.

I'm just a little bit tired If you know what I mean Don't want to be in a crowd When I can be in a dream.

For too many, to work means having less income.

Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.

Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

As the means, so the end.

Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

Meditation is the best means of elongating life

When I don't say a word and you know exactly what I mean.

I mean UKIP, I mean it's just a sort of, you know, bunch of fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists, basically.

Throw out and keep throwing out. Elegance means elimination.

Gratitude is not a fair weather virtue. True gratitude means appreciating your life no matter what the storms may bring. Is simply being alive gift enough for you to feel grateful?

If I'm using drugs and alcohol, it means that I've given up on my fullest potential.

Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good leaders lead by example, not by decree.