Top Mean Quotes Collection - Page 25

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Image of Norman Finkelstein
American Jews are overwhelmingly liberal. By "liberal," I mean, basically, support for the rule of law, support for human rights, support for peace; and on all those counts - rule of law, human rights, peace - Israel's record has become indefensible.
- Norman Finkelstein
Collection: Mean
Image of Oren Lyons
What if we choose to eradicate ourselves from this Earth, by whatever means? The Earth goes nowhere. And in time, it will regenerate... There may not be people, but the Earth will regenerate. And you know why? - Because the Earth has all the time in the world and we don't.
- Oren Lyons
Collection: Mean
Image of Graham Chapman
Nudge, nudge. Snap, snap. Grin, grin. Wink, wink, say no more? Could be, could be taken on holiday. Could be yes - swimming costumes. Know what I mean. Candid photography. Know what I mean, nudge nudge.
- Graham Chapman
Collection: Mean
Image of Graham Chapman
I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
- Graham Chapman
Collection: Mean
Image of Larry Gelbart
I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It's counter-productive to be able to type a hundred words a minute but not know what the words mean.
- Larry Gelbart
Collection: Mean
Image of Red Buttons
Adam, who said to Eve, What do you mean you have nothing to wear? Never got a dinner!
- Red Buttons
Collection: Mean
Image of Dana Gould
I have one phobia, snakes. And by snakes I mean intimacy.
- Dana Gould
Collection: Mean
Image of Leonora Carrington
Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.
- Leonora Carrington
Collection: Mean
Image of Oliver Ellsworth
The powers of congress must be defined, but their means must be adequate to the purposes of their constitution. It is possible there may be abuses and misapplications; still, it is better to hazard something than to hazard at all.
- Oliver Ellsworth
Collection: Mean
Image of Carlos P. Romulo
Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being a Filipino means having as rich and noble a heritage of language, culture, patriotism and heroic deeds as any nation on earth. Let us teach a steadfast faith in Divine Providence, a stable family institution, the unhampered enjoyment of civil liberties, the advantages of constitutional government, the potentials of a rich and spacious land.
- Carlos P. Romulo
Collection: Mean
Image of Thomas DiLorenzo
Peaceful secession and nullification are the only means of returning to a system of government that respects rather than destroys individual liberty.
- Thomas DiLorenzo
Collection: Mean
Image of Don Williams
Certainly the soda companies, the junk food companies fought hard against this and today's agreement doesn't mean the battle is over, we still have to pass this bill.
- Don Williams
Collection: Mean
Image of Donald James
That got me a look so intense I was unable to interpret it - like the way cats sometimes fix on you. What they mean by the look is completely beyond understanding; but it's meant for you, you alone.
- Donald James
Collection: Mean
Image of Peter Schjeldahl
I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.
- Peter Schjeldahl
Collection: Mean
Image of Bob Balaban
I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see; you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.
- Bob Balaban
Collection: Mean
Image of Ernst Gombrich
What an artist worries about as he plans his pictures, makes his sketches, or wonders whether he has completed his canvas, is something much more difficult to put into words. Perhaps he would say he worries about whether he has got it 'right'.
- Ernst Gombrich
Collection: Mean
Image of John Denham
When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.
- John Denham
Collection: Mean
Image of E. Haldeman-Julius
Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection boxes, whether we go to church or not and whether we are interested in the church or not. It is systematic and complete robbery, from which none of us escapes.
- E. Haldeman-Julius
Collection: Mean
Image of Francois Guizot
The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance. This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it.
- Francois Guizot
Collection: Mean
Image of Tommy Chong
So (legalizing marijuana) means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested.
- Tommy Chong
Collection: Mean
Image of Brooke Fraser
In the end, no matter how my records are panned or praised, if there are kids and communities in developing nations that have improved living conditions and are finally getting access to things we all have a basic right to (clean water, education, healthcare) because I am able to advocate, raise awareness or funds in some small way, then my life has achieved something that in the end means far more than having the track or album of the moment.
- Brooke Fraser
Collection: Mean
Image of Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
Weakness has many stages. There is a difference between feebleness by the impotency of the will, of the will to the resolution, of the resolution to the choice of means, of the choice of the means to the application.
- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
Collection: Mean
Image of Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
One of man's greatest failings is that he looks almost always for an excuse, in the misfortune that befalls him through his own fault, before looking for a remedy-which means he often finds the remedy too late.
- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
Collection: Mean
Image of Sidney Lanier
Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.
- Sidney Lanier
Collection: Mean
Image of Dan Chaon
Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.
- Dan Chaon
Collection: Mean
Image of Scott Simon
Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind ourselves what being a refugee means?
- Scott Simon
Collection: Mean
Image of John Mott
You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time.
- John Mott
Collection: Mean
Image of William A. Connelly
Professional courage is the steel fiber that makes an NCO unafraid and willing to tell it like it is. The concept of professional courage does not always mean being as tough as nails, either. It also suggests a willingness to listen to the soldiers' problems, to go to bat for them in a tough situation and it means knowing just how far they can go. It also means being willing to tell the boss when he is wrong.
- William A. Connelly
Collection: Mean
Image of Ibn Khaldun
Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.
- Ibn Khaldun
Collection: Mean
Image of Dennis Hopper
Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.
- Dennis Hopper
Collection: Mean
Image of Alice Duer Miller
Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.
- Alice Duer Miller
Collection: Mean
Image of Wolfgang Pauli
The layman always means, when he says "reality" that he is speaking of something self-evidently known; whereas to me it seems the most important and exceedingly difficult task of our time is to work on the construction of a new idea of reality.
- Wolfgang Pauli
Collection: Mean
Image of Wolfgang Pauli
For quite a while I have set for myself the rule if a theoretician says 'universal' it just means pure nonsense.
- Wolfgang Pauli
Collection: Mean
Image of Steve Case
You're not just trying to do something marginally, incrementally better. You're doing something that is a fundamental paradigm shift, that will have exponential impact. That means it's harder to do, but ultimately, if it's successful, the impact it has is far greater.
- Steve Case
Collection: Mean
Image of Charles Sumner
A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.
- Charles Sumner
Collection: Mean
Image of Kim Gordon
I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men-white male corporate society. So why wouldnt a woman want to rebel against that?
- Kim Gordon
Collection: Mean
Image of Srinivasa Ramanujan
An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
Collection: Mean
Image of Corliss Lamont
Supernatural entities simply do not exist. This nonreality of the supernatural means, on the human level, that men do not possess supernatural and immortal souls; and, on the level of the universe as a whole, that our cosmos does not possess a supernatural and eternal God.
- Corliss Lamont
Collection: Mean
Image of H. Allen Smith
Never buy anything with a handle on it. It means work.
- H. Allen Smith
Collection: Mean
Image of Gottlob Frege
It really is worth the trouble to invent a new symbol if we can thus remove not a few logical difficulties and ensure the rigour of the proofs. But many mathematicians seem to have so little feeling for logical purity and accuracy that they will use a word to mean three or four different things, sooner than make the frightful decision to invent a new word.
- Gottlob Frege
Collection: Mean
Image of Charles Churchill
If you mean to profit, learn to praise.
- Charles Churchill
Collection: Mean
Image of Hugh Gaitskell
It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state...it means the end of a thousand years of history.
- Hugh Gaitskell
Collection: Mean
Image of Hugh Gaitskell
In the last few years we have learned to distinguish the means of Socialism from the ends.
- Hugh Gaitskell
Collection: Mean
Image of Winkie Pratney
Many say they can't get God's guidance, when they really mean they wish He would show them an easier way.
- Winkie Pratney
Collection: Mean
Image of Shelley Long
I can't say I based [Carla] on anybody I knew. She was so foulmouthed and mean, just said what was on her mind. So I guess Carla is somebody I always wished I could be at the right moment, the one who always has the perfect comeback.
- Shelley Long
Collection: Mean