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Image of Alice Munro
Naturally my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men who write mostly about men. I'm not always sure what is meant by "feminist." In the beginning I used to say, well, of course I'm a feminist. But if it means that I follow a kind of feminist theory, or know anything about it, then I'm not. I think I'm a feminist as far as thinking that the experience of women is important. That is really the basis of feminism.
- Alice Munro
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Image of Gloria Steinem
Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues.
- Gloria Steinem
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Image of Jennifer Crusie
It's just that you don't respect me enough to respect what I want. I have to want what you want or it doesn't count or its's no good. Well, I don't want what you want. And I don't see why I have to. I mean, as long as I respect what you want and let you live your life, why do you care?
- Jennifer Crusie
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Image of Joseph Stalin
There is talk ... of our constructing Dnieprostroy through our own means. The means needed are great, several hundred millions. Let us not get into the position of the peasant who, after accumulating a nest-egg, instead of repairing his plough and renewing his equipment, buys a gramophone and goes bankrupt.
- Joseph Stalin
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Image of Jodi Picoult
You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes, we want to know that there's a really heinous punishment. Simple as that. We want to bring society closer together-huddle and circle our wagons-and that means getting rid of people we think are incapable of learning a moral lesson. I guess the question is: Who gets to identify those people? And what if, God forbid, they got it wrong?
- Jodi Picoult
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Image of Sylvia Plath
Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person
- Sylvia Plath
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Image of Thomas Merton
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does not come from a voice �out there� calling me to be something I am not. It comes from a voice �in here� calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God.
- Thomas Merton
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Image of Eckhart Tolle
Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself
- Eckhart Tolle
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Image of Herbert Spencer
Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works.
- Herbert Spencer
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Image of Diane Setterfield
She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
- Diane Setterfield
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Image of Boris Yeltsin
While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare
- Boris Yeltsin
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Image of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Sadhyojata means “creating every moment anew, knowing every moment new.’ We are used to a certain dimension, so this may go beyond you.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Image of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Image of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Acceptance does not mean inaction; acceptance is actually acknowledging the present situation.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Image of Neal Shusterman
What can fingerprints mean when they’re not necessarily yours?
- Neal Shusterman
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Image of Neal Shusterman
I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our families―but it's up to us whether we build bridges or bombs.
- Neal Shusterman
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Image of Swami Vivekananda
Throw aside your scriptures in the Ganga and teach the people first the means of procuring their food and clothing, and then you will find time to read to them the scriptures.
- Swami Vivekananda
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Image of Andy Roddick
I definitely think the European weather has more of a factor than the European clay. I think the European weather changes from week to week, I mean, last year it was sunny and hot and this week it's kind of playing tricks on us a little bit. I definitely think that is a factor.
- Andy Roddick
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Image of William Shakespeare
I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities.
- William Shakespeare
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Image of Thomas Merton
What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.
- Thomas Merton
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Image of Rajneesh
When you are in deep meditation you don't feel meditation, you feel bliss. When you are deep in meditation, when you are deep in awareness, you don't feel awareness, you feel bliss. When you begin to feel bliss, that means now you have begun to be aware. Awareness creates the situation in which bliss is felt.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Barack Obama
Just because Iran and Syria may recognize Assad's weaknesses doesn't necessarily mean that Assad recognizes his weaknesses.
- Barack Obama
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Image of Samael Aun Weor
Understanding transformed into secret means of action is splendid, wonderful, edifying and essentially dignifying.
- Samael Aun Weor
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Image of Diana Vreeland
This world without a leopard…I mean, who would want to be here?!
- Diana Vreeland
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Image of J.R. Ward
Wellsie frowned. "I'd like you to stay away from him, okay? He's...not right in a lot of ways. Do you know what I mean?" Actually, John wasn't so sure about that. Yeah, the guy was enough to make you think fondly of the boogeyman sometimes, but clearly he wasn't all bad.
- J.R. Ward
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Image of Haruki Murakami
Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about what constitutes good or evil. They don't care whether we are happy or unhappy. We're just means to an end for them. The only thing they think about is what is most efficient for them.
- Haruki Murakami
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Image of John Wesley
It is good to renew ourselves, from time to time, by closely examining the state of our souls, as if we had never done it before; for nothing tends more to the full assurance of faith, than to keep ourselves by this means in humility, and the exercise of all good works.
- John Wesley
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Image of Horace
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
- Horace
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Image of Serj Tankian
It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or plumbers have just as much of a responsibility to do that as artists.
- Serj Tankian
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Image of Ayn Rand
The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence - to protect his right to his own life, to his own liberty, to his own property and to the pursuit of his own happiness. Without property rights, no other rights are possible.
- Ayn Rand
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Image of Ayn Rand
Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on.
- Ayn Rand
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Image of Ayn Rand
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man's self-defense, and, as such, may only resort to force only against those who start the use of force.
- Ayn Rand
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Mitch Albom
Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.
- Mitch Albom
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Image of Charlie Sheen
Guys, IMDB right there, 62 movies, a ton of success, I mean, come on bro, I won best picture at 20. I wasn't even trying.
- Charlie Sheen
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Image of Elie Wiesel
Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.
- Elie Wiesel
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Image of Mark Shields
The problem is that every study I'm aware of, which is probably not that many, has indicated that a dollar spent in preparation and avoidance of natural disasters is worth $15 that is spent in relief. But there's no political payoff for preparation. So, who benefits? I mean, the governor or senator or the president? Bill Clinton at Oklahoma City, his performance there helped him enormously. And there really hasn't been any regulation that would, in fact, interfere with environmental disaster.
- Mark Shields
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Image of Mark Shields
Hillary Clinton should get a bounce out of her convention, I mean a bounce in the polls. I think it's probably conceded that Donald Trump got about a three-point bounce out of his conventions. He's closed the gap that much.
- Mark Shields
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Image of Ayn Rand
I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the meaning of all things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a sacrifice on their alters.
- Ayn Rand
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Image of Ayn Rand
The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.
- Ayn Rand
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Image of Ayn Rand
It is too early to feel fear of the future when one is under 30, and too late after that. What I mean is that one must never allow fear to become one's permanent sense of life. The important thing is to prepare yourself intellectually to deal with whatever circumstances you may encounter, which requires that you define your values fully, clearly and rationally -- and never betray them.
- Ayn Rand
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Image of Ayn Rand
Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just.
- Ayn Rand
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Image of Henry Rollins
When was the last time you wanted to say it all to the right person To have it all come out right, to surprise yourself at how together you could be. When was the last time you ever met someone who made you want to give it all to them I mean give yourself to them. Where you couldn't express yourself enough - like you wanted to cut off one of your arms to be understood. That's it - you would cut your head off to have someone understand you. You know how pointless that one is. You know how many times you've smashed yourself to bits on the rocks.
- Henry Rollins
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Image of Surya Das
There's plenty going on that's substantial and transformative, beneficial and authentic. Just because somebody is in the media, it doesn't mean they're bad. It may mean they're the best, and occasionally you know the cream rises to the surface, but not always everything on the surface is cream.
- Surya Das
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Image of Surya Das
Ram Dass, Krishna Dass, we all spoke through interpreters. There were good interpreters there, educated people in India speak English but Maharaji was the One, the Baba, Holy Man, mendicant, he didn't speak English. We talked to him and it was hard to know him, he was an ancient holy man and I was a 21 year old seeker. So I never knew what was going on, I mean I don't really know what's going on now, my guess work is a little better perhaps.
- Surya Das
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Image of Elizabeth Bowen
The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be more concentrated, can be more visionary, and is not weighed down (as the novel is bound to be) by facts, explanation, or analysis. I do not mean to say that the short story is by any means exempt from the laws of narrative: it must observe them, but on its own terms.
- Elizabeth Bowen
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Image of Maggie Stiefvater
I don't know if I'd want to be comforted, if I'm being honest. If I'm being forced to eat soot, I want to know that somewhere else in the world, someone else has to eat soot as well. I want to know that soot tastes terrible. I don't want to be told that soot's good for the digestion. And of course, by soot, I mean beans.
- Maggie Stiefvater
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Image of Oscar Wilde
All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.
- Oscar Wilde
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Image of Andre Breton
The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless satisfies my only legitimate aspiration. Among all the many misfortunes to which we are heir, it is only fair to admit that we are allowed the greatest degree of freedom of thought. It is up to us not to misuse it. To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery-even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness-is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself.
- Andre Breton
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