Top Mean Quotes Collection - Page 59

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Image of Jonathan Franzen
Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.
- Jonathan Franzen
Collection: Mean
Image of Paul Dano
I like purple too. I looked up color psychology before doing any house painting, because I was curious what the colors I like mean. And purple is very royal and creative.
- Paul Dano
Collection: Mean
Image of Paul Dano
If I could get myself in an editing room, that'd be trouble. I mean, that's how it works, you know? You leave everything on the field. I would pick apart - I do, even on the first time. More than once is just too much self-destruction. I don't need that.
- Paul Dano
Collection: Mean
Image of Caridad Svich
Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act structure. The content makes the play. I feel the form is simply dressing, because ultimately, you want to communicate to the audience, and sometimes the best way to do that is to present a provocative idea in a format that is comfortable for them to receive. Then the idea will come through directly, right in solar plexus. After all, I want to make a living as an artist, and that means speaking to the audience in a form they can understand.
- Caridad Svich
Collection: Mean
Image of Laura Michelle Kelly
Remember that for someone to be so mean, something must be going on with them. Something must be happening to make them so unhappy that they feel the need to bring others down. I try to have empathy for them.
- Laura Michelle Kelly
Collection: Mean
Image of Amma Asante
There are important differences that mean we appreciate each other, not tolerate each other. Race creates this idea that there's this massive difference. So when you use race as a means to explore politics, it's a very interesting way of looking at difference, yet similarities.
- Amma Asante
Collection: Mean
Image of Greta Garbo
I don’t like to talk to people, because I can’t express myself satisfactorily. I don’t say the things I mean.
- Greta Garbo
Collection: Mean
Image of Mitchell Zuckoff
I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a Ponzi scheme is misleading and does more to cloud the issue than it does to illuminate it. And yes, I do know that unless changes are made, the current system is unsustainable. But that doesn't mean it's fraud.
- Mitchell Zuckoff
Collection: Mean
Image of John Glenn
By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons should be complemented by work outside the classroom. Service-learning does just that, tying community service to academic learning.
- John Glenn
Collection: Mean
Image of Barrett Brown
When we start fighting crime by any means necessary we become guilty of the same hypocrisy as law enforcement agencies throughout history that break the rules to get the villains, and so become villains themselves.
- Barrett Brown
Collection: Mean
Image of Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance understanding, power to name, power to heal. And it means using words as instruments of love.
- Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Collection: Mean
Image of Wilbur Ross
We're in the business not so much of being contrarians deliberately, but rather we like to take perceived risk instead of actual risk. And what I mean by that is that you get paid for taking a risk that people think is risky, you particularly don't get paid for taking actual risk.
- Wilbur Ross
Collection: Mean
Image of Richard Ben-Veniste
I like Harvey Keitel. I liked him in Mean Streets. Im a fan.
- Richard Ben-Veniste
Collection: Mean
Image of Michael Flanders
Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.
- Michael Flanders
Collection: Mean
Image of Odd Nerdrum
To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work as old-fashioned. It does not have a frame of actuality in our time or locality.
- Odd Nerdrum
Collection: Mean
Image of Marek Edelman
To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.
- Marek Edelman
Collection: Mean
Image of Crash Davis
Know what the difference between hitting .250 and .300 is? It's 25 hits - 25 hits in 500 at-bats is 50 points. There's six months in a season, that's about 25 weeks. That means if you get just one extra flare a week - just one - you get a ground ball with eyes, you get a dying quail, just one more dying quail a week ... and you're in Yankee Stadium.
- Crash Davis
Collection: Mean
Image of Crash Davis
Your shower shoes have fungus on them. You'll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy, you'll be classy. If you win 20 in the show, you can let the fungus grow back and the press'll think you're colorful. Until you win 20 in the show, however, it means you are a slob.
- Crash Davis
Collection: Mean
Image of Laura Antoniou
Safe, sane and consensual what do those words really mean? Assimilation, that's what.
- Laura Antoniou
Collection: Mean
Image of Peter L. Bernstein
The word 'risk' derives from the early Italian risicare, which means 'to dare'. In this sense, risk is a choice rather than a fate. The actions we dare to take, which depend on how free we are to make choices, are what the story of risk is all about. And that story helps define what it means to be a human being.
- Peter L. Bernstein
Collection: Mean
Image of Julie Zeilinger
When I grew up, feminism wasn’t something that was really talked about. There’s a really negative stereotype about feminism in the media. That really plays badly for young women understanding the movement. Maybe people don’t want to identify themselves as feminists because of the label. But people need to understand what feminism means and educate themselves before they reject it.
- Julie Zeilinger
Collection: Mean
Image of Arthur Ashe
If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
- Arthur Ashe
Collection: Mean
Image of John Arbuthnot
Among the innumerable Footsteps of Divine Providence to be found in the Works of Nature, there is a very remarkable one to be observed in the exact Balance that is maintained, between the Numbers of Men and Women; for by this means it is provided, that the Species may never fail, nor perish, since every Male may have its Female, and of a proportionable Age.
- John Arbuthnot
Collection: Mean
Image of Joshilyn Jackson
You're saying things you can't take back. And you don't even mean them.
- Joshilyn Jackson
Collection: Mean
Image of Deborah Rhode
The cliché is what are the qualifications for a federal Court of Appeals judge is somebody who knew a senator once. I mean the process of selection is deeply political and yet we expect the result to somehow stand above it.
- Deborah Rhode
Collection: Mean
Image of Deborah Rhode
If you follow Donald Trump's logic, say that he couldn't decide any civil rights cases because he would be biased.I mean, we do want a diverse and inclusive judiciary - one that looks like the people that they serve. And we do recognize the value of having diverse backgrounds represented.
- Deborah Rhode
Collection: Mean
Image of Samuel
I mean ... to let you know how deeply I am impressed with a sense of the importance of Amendments; that the good people may clearly see the distinction - for there is a distinction - between the federal powers vested in Congress and the sovereign authority belonging to the several States, which is the Palladium [the protection] of the private and personal rights of the citizens.
- Samuel
Collection: Mean
Image of Alfred Jodl
In view of the vast size of the occupied areas in the East the forces available for establishing security in these areas will be sufficient only if all resistance is punished not by legal prosecution of the guilty but by the spreading of such terror by the occupying power as is appropriate to eradicate every inclination to resist among the population. The competent commanders must find the means of keeping order not by demanding more security forces but by applying suitable Draconian methods.
- Alfred Jodl
Collection: Mean
Image of Wolfgang Schauble
If you live beyond your means and have to restructure as a result, you pay a price.
- Wolfgang Schauble
Collection: Mean
Image of Kerry James Marshall
I think we need to remember...that a lot of energy was put into changing things to get us to the point where we are now. But being where we are now doesn't mean that we don't have to put in the same kind of energy to get us to a place where we ought to be.
- Kerry James Marshall
Collection: Mean
Image of Kerry James Marshall
The first freedom is to be in possession of yourself - to own yourself, to not be subject to the will of somebody else. In a capitalist society, that means having a certain economic wherewithal so that you can do what you wish to do without having to ask permission.
- Kerry James Marshall
Collection: Mean
Image of Kerry James Marshall
For black people in the western hemisphere, if you can't generate a mythology that creates models of heroism and power out of the mythology that you had, then that means that somehow the mythology you had was not only feeble and weak, but that you are ultimately a powerless people. That's a notion that, I think, that can't be accepted.
- Kerry James Marshall
Collection: Mean
Image of Ira Sachs
I think parenting well is not so different than trying to consider how to be successful at any relationship. Like, how do you partner well? How do you collaborate well? How do we have this conversation well? You know, you're always trying to figure out what "well" means, so I think parenting is another version of that.
- Ira Sachs
Collection: Mean
Image of Mark Galli
This is part of what it means to become holy, to be refined by fire. Difficulties and sufferings are God's form of hazing. Sometimes it gets so hard, we think Him cruel. But He's only looking for men and women who will keep their cool when things go horribly wrong, a people prepared to dash into burning rooms to rescue those about to be engulfed in flames.
- Mark Galli
Collection: Mean
Image of Lisa M
You can assume all you want about me. It doesn't mean that it's true.
- Lisa M
Collection: Mean
Image of David Banner
We get better product when the focus is on the fans and the artists - all artists; musical artists; singers, the graphic designers, the painters, the DJs, I mean everybody, the writers. We can't allow ourselves to feel as if we're not important in the equation when we are everything!
- David Banner
Collection: Mean
Image of Zach Galifianakis
The word abbreviation sure is long for what it means.
- Zach Galifianakis
Collection: Mean
Image of Zach Galifianakis
If you read my blog, you know I'm a pilates freak. And by pilates, I mean waffles.
- Zach Galifianakis
Collection: Mean
Image of Andrew Loomis
I feel that talent means little unless coupled with an insatiable desire to give an excellent personal demonstration of ability...talent must be in company with a capacity for unlimited effort which provides the power that eventually hurdles the difficulties that would frustrate lukewarm enthusiasm.
- Andrew Loomis
Collection: Mean
Image of Andrew Loomis
If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.
- Andrew Loomis
Collection: Mean
Image of Billy Graham
Just because the truth is unpopular doesn't mean that it should not be proclaimed.
- Billy Graham
Collection: Mean
Image of Charles Fort
A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.
- Charles Fort
Collection: Mean
Image of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has an immense and exceptional value, like the widow's mite. It is a deliberate and discerning love of a nation that appeals to me, not the indiscriminate love that assumes everything to be right because it bears a national label. Love of one's own nation should not entail non-love of other nations. Institutions by themselves are not enough.
- Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
Collection: Mean
Image of Ben Richards
Just because there's a trillion places to put an idea doesn't mean you don't need an idea in the first place
- Ben Richards
Collection: Mean
Image of Ben Richards
The best content is the means, not the end.
- Ben Richards
Collection: Mean
Image of Simon de Pury
What I admire about Snoop Dogg is his longevity. I mean, he's been around for a long time and I think he's as good as he's ever been.
- Simon de Pury
Collection: Mean
Image of Justin Vernon
I'm not trying to say something super complicated. I allow myself to say certain things that mean a lot to me.
- Justin Vernon
Collection: Mean
Image of Lauren Barnholdt
POSSIBLE OPENERS AFTER YOU'VE GOTTEN DRUNK AND SLEPT IN YOUR GUY ROOMMATE'S BED (A LIST):1. Hey, Drew, thanks for letting me sleep in your bed. I hope I didn't puke all over your sheets.2. What do you mean? I slept in your bed? Really? I don't remember any of it, I was so wasted.3. Thanks for not trying to molest me.
- Lauren Barnholdt
Collection: Mean