Mean Quotes

Freedom does not mean license.

Don't forget - you're dealing with aberrated people. They're not responsible for their answers. They're victims of culture. That means they have been influenced by their culture.

The Big Lie is a major untruth uttered frequently by leaders as a means of duping and controlling the constituency.

Imagine me going around with a pot belly. It would mean political ruin.

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.

In three days," he continued, "I will be your husband. I will take a solemn vow to protect you until death do us part. Do you understand what that means?" "You'll save me from marauding minotaurs?

In my bands, I don't really walk around telling people what to play, just out of respect really. I mean, if there's something I feel in my gut, I'll bring it up.

I tend to gravitate toward the more powerful roles. As opposed to the doe-eyed girl who bats her eyelashes and runs around in towels, you now what I mean? Because that kind of makes me want to vomit.

Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.

Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.

A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard

The First Amendment means everything to me.

The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture ... I Cor 7:37 does not mean freedom of the will.

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.

As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds.

For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.

If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.

Primitive does not mean stupid.

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]

You look wonderful", Jason said. "No compliments, Jason. I'm uncomfortable enough in the lingerie." "Then by all means take it off.

The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond.

I would just go in my room and just scream out of anger because I didn't understand how a person could be so vicious and mean.

I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.

There are nice things in the world - and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get so sidetracked.

On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism

A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that "E is dense in E" does not mean the same thing as "E is dense in itself".

In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions.

To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.

With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many.

I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..." "Variety is the spice of life" "And from a thousand miles apart" "Absence makes the heart grow fonder

I actually don't think that brand new logos are worth that much or mean that much in and of themselves. So why not have a class of third graders compete to design your logo?

If power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love , then you haven't really got any.

[T]o know means to reach the reality of existing things[.]

China is a BRIC country. BRIC country means Brazil, Russia, India and China. This emerging economy really is helping the revival of the world economy.

Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.

Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.

I happen to believe in immigration reform but I don't believe that that means that every person who has come into America should be able to stay.

Every man has a right to life, and this means that he has also a right to make a comfortable living.

I'm always happy. I've just got a mean face.

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.

Dedication means spending whatever time or energy is necessary to accomplish the task at hand.

I was raised with pretty thick skin. And I think people are hungry for politicians who aren't afraid to say what they think and mean it.

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.