Mean Quotes

When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.

I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all.

The squares of the periodic times are proportional to the cubes of the mean distances from the sun.

It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.

The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it means to be civilized, educated, and refined.

My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.

Winning means outlasting everyone else.

Hitting a shorter club to these greens means a great, great deal. Younger players are so much more capable length-wise.

Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist.

... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.

It comes a time in your life that you will no longer live for yourself anymore. You never know how much a person can mean to you until one comes into your life, and changes it for the best.

I mean, I know my heart is not clean, and your heart is not clean, and none of our urban hearts are clean. But you can be washed again.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

I want to be the poster child for taking care of yourself after 40. Obesity is an epidemic in this country and I'm a living, breathing example of what it means to stay healthy.

We did really, really badly with older African-American voters. I mean we got decimated.

When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.

Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.

To say that secular means irreligious implies that all the arts and sciences are irreligious, and is very like saying that all professions except that of the law are illegal.

In normal life, 'simplicity' is synonymous with 'easy to do,' but when a chef uses the word, it means 'takes a lifetime to learn.'

Be respectful of words. They mean something.

We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat.

The notion that you have a blind trust but you can tell your trustee when to sell stock in it just doesn't make any sense. It means you have a seeing eye trust and not a blind trust. It's ridiculous.

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

I believe in keeping running simple and, in regard to shoes, that would mean no gimmicks, unnecessary cushioning, etc

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there's been a thousand shows in there and now you get to be one.

Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that is eating at the heart of the nation like a cancer.

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies - bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.

It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. . . . We made giving exciting.

Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music

Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.

Winning doesn't always mean being first.

It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.

Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.

They had a hard time miking me in my loin cloth, I mean, where were they gonna tape it?

I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways.

Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.

A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.

I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.

I decided I am not going to say things I do not mean anymore.

I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood.

I've always wanted to be bald. I mean it, completely bald. Wouldn't it be great to be bald in the rain?

I mean, if a thing works, if a thing is right, respect that, acknowledge it, respect it and hold to it.

After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.

Your flag flyin' over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone. Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

A lot of times, you beat a person who beat a person who can beat you. I mean, it doesn't make any sense.

You aspire to be as great as Michael Jackson is as an artist. I don't think any artist in pop, rock or hip-hop has ever done it any bigger than him. You know what I mean? He's the man.

The lack of education means, the lack of having something I can pull out of a drawer, means I have to find something in any movie I work on that is intensely personal.