Mean Quotes

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.

Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.

I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.

Confessions are like tattoos in that 1) You convince yourself that the immediate pain of going through the process means it won't bother you later on; 2) They are permanent.

Intelligence, adaptability and talent. And by talent I mean the capacity for hard work. Lots of girls come here with little but good looks. Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.

Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.

Geoengineering means changing the Earth's fundamental large-scale processes.

There is no cannibalism in the British Navy, absolutely none. And when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount, more than I personally admit.

I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

You know, it is not God's desire to conceal but to reveal. The word revelation means "unveiling."

Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.

Just because there are things I don't remember, doesn't mean my actions are meaningless. The whole world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

Baseball needs me because it needs somebody to stir the pot, and I need it because it's my life. It's the means I have to make a little difference in the world.

I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.

Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.

It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not. It just means that you're in sync with yourself.

Charm" — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

Talent means energy and persistence and nothing more!

As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.

The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never been, and the owner says "You mean third base?"

Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.

Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the uniformity of their means.

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

It can happen anytime, anywhere. I mean, you don't have to be in front of stuff that's going to make a good photograph. It's possible anywhere.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.

Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not.

The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

The problem with fun is we really don't know what fun means at all.

For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.

Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God.

Revolution means turning the wheel.