Mean Quotes

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.

Democracy means the power of the people and the possibility of influencing the governing parties. Russia had had enough experience with a one-party-system - we will not go back there.

Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.

We need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work —and by that I mean armed security.

Some choices are forever....Just because people aren't in our lives anymore, doesn't mean they stop thinking about us and vice versa.

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean.

I am for the world's salvation, I will quarrel with no means that promises help.

By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.

Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.

Discussion in America means dissent.

Comedians usually are rooting for the underdog. I mean to take a shot at an underdog I think is really stupid and low and not funny.

Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.

they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity.

If the vision is there, the means will follow.

What I can say is I think [Miley Cyrus] a fantastic artist. She's got a fantastic voice. I made a comment in the past that I really regret making because I never like being mean.

I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.

A good government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained.

It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.

These enthusiasts often like to hang signs that say "Gone Fishin'" or "Gone Huntin'". But what these slogans really mean is "Gone Killing.

I mean to prove I mean to move in my own way/ And say I've been getting along/ For long before you came into the play.

The word "prodigy" was thrown around a lot, but I didn't understand what that meant, or the weight of it. It didn't really mean anything to me, until I was older and could look back on it.

I wanna say 'China', but I don't really mean 'China.' I just mean the places that Chinese people come from.

Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.

Colombia is a different country today. The state is now present in every single corner, the drug lords are in jail or dead. So we have the means to guarantee the security of FARC politicians.

To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right.

People are only mean when they are threatened.

The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.

Adaptation is a profound process. Means you figure out how to thrive in the world.

I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a lot of other white people who feel the same.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

The art of communicating is to speak with a non judging sensitivity and mean it rather than impulsively verbalizing whatever feelings arise; there's no better way to make a point.

I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.

I don't really look at myself as a role model. And I just am the way I am and if people want to look up to me, they do. By no means do I like to give a negative image either.

I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done.

I am glad so many women singers are being heard in music today. It is healthy for music . . . healthy because it means a lot of men are listening!

Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.

If you work outdoors be passive, go with the weather. This may mean two hours sheltering from a downpour, followed by a wonderful burst of sunlight and a rainbow.

I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.

The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world

Be Impeccable with Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean.