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Image of Robert Musil
An impractical man--which he not only seems to be, but really is--will always be unreliable and unpredictable in his dealings with others. He will engage in actions that mean something else to him than to others, but he is at peace with himself about everything as long as he can make it all come together in a fine idea.
- Robert Musil
Collection: Mean
Image of Georges Bataille
[Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal return] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In every other system, don't forget, these moments are viewed as means: Every moral system proclaims that "each moment of life ought to be motivated." Return unmotivates the moment and frees life of ends.
- Georges Bataille
Collection: Mean
Image of Guru Nanak
He ,who is appointed to ,cohabit with the widow shall ,approach her at night anointed with clarified butter and silent, ,and beget one son, by no means a second.
- Guru Nanak
Collection: Mean
Image of Lewis Black
Some people have religion as a means of solace. But, I had a dreidel, so that was out.
- Lewis Black
Collection: Mean
Image of Colin Mochrie
Hi. There was a big accident, some people got decapitated, here are their names... You know what? That shirt really makes you look fat. I mean, the colour's all wrong... I mean, who shot the drapes?
- Colin Mochrie
Collection: Mean
Image of Roger Zelazny
I guess you have to be a little arrogant to be a writer. I decided early on that just because a lot of other writers were bothered by getting bad reviews didn't really mean that the things were particularly important. By the same token, the good ones didn't mean all that much either. So I just forget about reviews and I wrote what I wanted.
- Roger Zelazny
Collection: Mean
Image of Adam Smith
In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to produce; and in the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for advancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and the propagation of the species.
- Adam Smith
Collection: Mean
Image of Adam Smith
The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means, but by increasing either the number of its productive labourers, or the productive powers of those labourers who had before been employed.
- Adam Smith
Collection: Mean
Image of Vandana Shiva
Governments have a favorite phrase: “lean and mean.” But they’ve been made very, very fat for corporate interests.
- Vandana Shiva
Collection: Mean
Image of Oscar Wilde
Don't use big words. They mean so little.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Mean
Image of Bertrand Russell
Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.
- Bertrand Russell
Collection: Mean
Image of Glenn Greenwald
When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.
- Glenn Greenwald
Collection: Mean
Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Collection: Mean
Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Collection: Mean
Image of Rand Paul
Whether or not regime change is a good idea or a bad idea. I don't think because I think the regime change was a bad idea it means that Hussein was necessarily a good idea.
- Rand Paul
Collection: Mean
Image of Shimon Peres
Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise.
- Shimon Peres
Collection: Mean
Image of Richard Yates
He knew it was possible for shame to be nursed and doctored like an illness, if you wanted to keep it separate from the rest of your life, but that didn't mean there'd be any way to keep from knowing it was there.
- Richard Yates
Collection: Mean
Image of Rex Stout
MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
- Rex Stout
Collection: Mean
Image of Sarah Silverman
If you sell the Vatican and you take that money and you use it to feed every single human being on the planet, you will get cah-azy pussy. All the pussy. I don't mean literally. That might not be your cup of tea. I don't know what your version of 'all the pussy' is. But you'll get all the pussy.
- Sarah Silverman
Collection: Mean
Image of John Flanagan
S'mimasen," Alyss said repeatedly as they brushed against passerby. "What does that mean?" Will asked as they reached a stretch of street bare of any other pedestrians. He was impressed by Alyss's grasp of the local language. "It means 'pardon me,'" Alyss replied, but then a shadow of doubt crossed her face. "At least, I hope it does. Maybe I'm saying 'you have the manners of a fat, rancid sow.
- John Flanagan
Collection: Mean
Image of John Flanagan
All we could get out of them was that they were taking us to 'Kurokuma'. We didn't know if that was a place or a person. What does it mean, by the way?' 'I'm told it's a term of great respect,' Horace said, unwilling to admit that he didn't know.
- John Flanagan
Collection: Mean
Image of Anthony Bourdain
Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine.
- Anthony Bourdain
Collection: Mean
Image of Myles Munroe
Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good leaders lead by example, not by decree.
- Myles Munroe
Collection: Mean
Image of Glenn Beck
If you go to Cass Sunstein, what net neutrality means is now if you go to FoxNews.com, you will have Arianna Huffington, a little box pop up with her showing that Bill O’Reilly is wrong on this or here’s an opposing view of Bill O’Reilly.
- Glenn Beck
Collection: Mean
Image of Glenn Beck
I would like a practical president, but I would like to be able to have his practicality based on principles, and not just who - I mean the room with.
- Glenn Beck
Collection: Mean
Image of Christopher Walken
In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means you get to get better. That's the great thing about the theater.
- Christopher Walken
Collection: Mean
Image of Alexander Pope
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
- Alexander Pope
Collection: Mean
Image of Oliver Sacks
A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore, replace or compensate for and to preserve its identity, however strange the means may be.
- Oliver Sacks
Collection: Mean
Image of John Berger
What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don't think happens with any other activity.
- John Berger
Collection: Mean
Image of Thomas Sowell
To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars more than they would have without profits. It never occurs to such people that these products might cost several million dollars more without the incentives to be efficient created by the prospect of profits.
- Thomas Sowell
Collection: Mean
Image of Oscar Wilde
I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Mean
Image of John Oliver
When I heard that Hitler had problems with flatulence, it's funny. What - does that make him a funny man? No. It means he had funny moments when his rear end was speaking louder than his mouth.
- John Oliver
Collection: Mean
Image of Alan Perlis
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
- Alan Perlis
Collection: Mean
Image of Alan Perlis
Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
- Alan Perlis
Collection: Mean
Image of Alan Perlis
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
- Alan Perlis
Collection: Mean
Image of Spencer W. Kimball
By one means or another, the swiftest method of rejection of the holy prophets has been to find a pretext, however false or absurd, to dismiss the man so that his message could also be dismissed.
- Spencer W. Kimball
Collection: Mean
Image of Barack Obama
I mean, if you think about - if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It's the Post Office that's always having problems.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Mean
Image of Selma Blair
I'm older and have a kid, I like success on my own, but I always enjoyed all my parts playing the fifth wheel. I mean, just loved it. There was such freedom in it and I still got to enjoy watching everyone work.
- Selma Blair
Collection: Mean
Image of Bernie Sanders
I think everybody is in agreement that America is a great entrepreneurial nation. We have got to encourage that. Of course, we have to support small and medium-sized businesses. But you can have all of the growth that you want and it doesn't mean anything if all of the new income and wealth is going to the top 1 percent.
- Bernie Sanders
Collection: Mean
Image of Francis Quarles
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there.
- Francis Quarles
Collection: Mean
Image of Erin Hunter
You're a medicine cat. I understand what that means now. StarClan go with you, Leafpool. I'll never forget you.
- Erin Hunter
Collection: Mean
Image of Conan O'Brien
Tom Ridge announced a new color-coded alarm system. ... Green means everything's okay. Red means we're in extreme danger. And champagne-fuschia means we're being attacked by Martha Stewart.
- Conan O'Brien
Collection: Mean
Image of Rumi
World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters.
- Rumi
Collection: Mean
Image of Ellen G. White
The fatal effects of sin can be removed only by the provision that God has made. The Israelites saved their lives by looking upon the uplifted serpent. That look implied faith. They lived because they believed God's word, and trusted in the means provided for their recover. So to sinner may look to Christ, and live. He receives pardon through faith in the atoning sacrifice. Unlike the inert and lifeless symbol, Christ has power and virtue in Himself to heal the repenting sinner.
- Ellen G. White
Collection: Mean
Image of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Collection: Mean
Image of George Will
Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not exampled since Jane Fonda sat on the anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi to be photographed - Mr. McDermott said in effect, not in effect, he said it, we should take Saddam Hussein at his word and not take the President at his word. He said the United States is simply trying to provoke. I mean, why Saddam Hussein doesn't pay commercial time for that advertisement for his policy, I do not know.
- George Will
Collection: Mean
Image of Neil deGrasse Tyson
In whatever you choose to do, do it because it's hard, not because it's easy. Math and physics and astrophysics are hard. For every hard thing you accomplish, fewer other people are out there doing the same thing as you. That's what doing something hard means. And in the limit of this, everyone beats a path to your door because you're the only one around who understands the impossible concept or who solves the unsolvable problem.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Collection: Mean
Image of John Updike
Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
- John Updike
Collection: Mean