Mean Quotes

I have come to regard with some suspicion those who claim that the Bible never troubles them. I can only assume this means they haven’t actually read it.

Being on top of the world doesn't mean anything unless you know what it's like to be at the bottom.

Tolerance means to fix our mind, to fix our words, & our actions on a higher principle.

Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love, becoming one.

Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality.

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.

Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.

Cooking, I mean, food, cooking foods is just everything that I do from morning to night. It's how I choose to live my life: through cooking, people that are in food culture. And I love it.

Love means the courage to expose yourself to the potential pains of being hurt, deeply hurt by someone you trust.

Thoughts that bring about good feelings mean you are on the right track. Thoughts that bring about bad feelings means you are not on the right track.

Being an entrepreneur simply means being someone who wants to make a difference to other people's lives.

Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ...especially the children of men.

Our efforts to help the poor does not mean we're going to eradicate poverty.

What I mean and what I say is two different things," the BFG announced rather grandly.

You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.

It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.

Affection is one of the most neglected words in the English language, that people throw the word love around like confetti when they mean affection.

I guess the only thing to do now is meet his parents. I'm sure they're decent people. I mean they gotta be if they named their son Gaylord Focker.

Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end.

Enjoy the time you have with your friends & family. That doesn't mean spend money you don't have on them. It means enjoy your time with them.

Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.

To my mind, healing means returning a malfunctioning human body to full unrestricted function, not to remove parts of it by operation or amputation

You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.

World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters.

I think a lot of the source of how people are treated depends on the fact if someone recognizes them as a human being or not, you know what I mean?

Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people.

Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial.

HAMM: We're not beginning to... to... mean something? CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something! (Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one!

For me, faith means that what is right will win out one day. It means that the universe is not aimless but moves by some positive design.

The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.

The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means.

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist

The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I don't like you' simply means 'I don't have you as a friend.

How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.

The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

Peace does not mean the absence of war, peace means the presence of harmony, love, satisfaction and oneness. Peace means a flood of love in the world family.

Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you'll know what it means to live.

Accepting God’s acceptance of me doesn’t mean I’m going to stop trying. It means I’m going to stop trying out. And I am intentionally redirecting my obsession.

If your prayers haven't been answered, it doesn't mean they won't be answered. In fact, they may have already been answered, but just not in the way you wanted or expected them to be.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is modulating time and causing history, essentially.

That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works---I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones.

Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

To idolise a person means you don't get to know them, and the idea that you can become one is a myth, and it also means that you don't need to talk to one another because you're the same person.

Perfume must not be linked just to fashion because that means that one day it will go out of style.

The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts.