Mean Quotes

In order to learn what it means to be a woman we must start with the One who made her.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means

I'm standing on my Monopoly board that means I'm on top of my game

My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

You [ the American President] can print more money, you just print and pay. I mean, it's a bad option, but you can do it.

The truth is that momentum, in the sense in which we are discussing, is a feeling, and if it's a feeling, that means we have the ability to have it on our side at all times if we so choose.

It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.

Today, we talk a lot about equality, but I think what most people mean by it is sameness - that everybody is the same - and they are afraid if they are not the same, they are not equal.

Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care.

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew?

Humility does not mean weakness. It does not mean timidity. It does not mean fear. A man can be humble and fearless. A man can be humble and courageous.

All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then NATO should carry out air strikes.

Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one will feel excluded.

If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.

Luther deters me from solitariness; but he does not mean from a sober solitude that rallies our scattered strengths and prepares us against any new encounter from without.

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay.

Peace means far more than the opposite of war.

For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts and principles by means of which new theories can be created.

To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about.

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.

When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship.

...discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-

No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

I was pretty excited to meet Cate Blanchett. She's great, she's amazing, I think she's one of the most beautiful women in the universe. And I mean the universe, not the world.

In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.

My mother-in-law was so mean she blinded herself just to get a free dog.

More contact means more sharing of information, gossiping, exchanging, engaging - in short, more word of mouth.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.

The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean.

I would have said yes to abortion if only it was right. I mean, yeah it's right. Well no it's not right that's why I said no to it.

The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.

It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.

I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.