Mean Quotes

Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.

A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realize what we've been through and understand what it means.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

To keep a vow, means not to keep from breaking it, but rather to devote the rest of one's life to discovering what the vow means, and to be willing to change and to grow accordingly.

Higher dimensions of Awareness means Higher dimensions of energy.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country.

I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast, But I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast.

I don't know that I can say what exactly love means to me because it would be hard to put that into perspective.

Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.

When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else.

This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.

Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.

Florida, just because you're shaped like some combination of a gun and a d*ck doesn't mean you have to act that way.

I like the idea of having a paperless society.But to be paperless means you have to be so careful with your identity.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things.

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.

I would just like to tell my fans how much it means to me to make a movie that they like.

Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out.

Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.

When I was about 19, my stepmother said - because this was back in the 80s - that I had Robert Wagners pompadour. I said, What are you talking about? You mean the guy from Hart to Hart?

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.

I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a brilliant coup.

Thought is a means of concealing Truth.

Politics is a continuation of economics by other means

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.

Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.

I hate the word 'potential'-potential means you haven't gotten it done.

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

Oh, it's lovely to see you!' Franny said as the cab moved off. 'I've missed you.' The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all.

What I enjoy most about performing is making people happy. Just to make a person smile means more to me than anything.

It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.

... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice.

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.

I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

When composing music, I just start spilling things out and then wait until they take form, you know what I mean, until I see like a common thread or something.

Make it a part of every day's business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Private means of grace are just as needful every day for our souls as food and clothing are for our bodies.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that this is absolutely where I should be and I've lived up to my own expectations.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14

Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.

I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!