Top Mean Quotes Collection - Page 6

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Image of Robert M. Pirsig
Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end but a unique event in itself. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountains which sustain life, not the top.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Collection: Mean
Image of Robert M. Pirsig
When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Collection: Mean
Image of Ellen Kushner
I'm the Duke of Riverside. I build things here and pretty much keep the peace, and discourage certain behaviors. If you think all that has been achieved through entirely civil and lawful means, you've had your head in a bucket.
- Ellen Kushner
Collection: Mean
Image of Marisa Tomei
A lot of times being "completely objective" means seeing the world through a patriarchal eye.
- Marisa Tomei
Collection: Mean
Image of Paul Rudnick
I love [my parents], but what if I could really talk to them? I mean, what if they had some answers? Or would that just be too weird?
- Paul Rudnick
Collection: Mean
Image of Malorie Blackman
A backup plan means somewhere in my head, I think I might fail and that word is not in my vocabulary. Plus I'm too talented to fail.
- Malorie Blackman
Collection: Mean
Image of Derek Landy
So what does that actually mean?' 'To be honest, Ghastly, I haven't a bull's notion.' 'Elder Bespoke should be addressed by his full title,' Tipstaff said. 'Of course,' Skulduggery said. 'To be honest, Your Highness, I haven't a bull's notion.
- Derek Landy
Collection: Mean
Image of Pericles
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
- Pericles
Collection: Mean
Image of Pericles
Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.
- Pericles
Collection: Mean
Image of Pat Williams
This vacation tip: If you see a gas station with a sign that says Clean Rest Rooms, it means one thing--the door is locked and no one can find the key.
- Pat Williams
Collection: Mean
Image of David Wojnarowicz
Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.
- David Wojnarowicz
Collection: Mean
Image of Steven Weber
Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information technology are not necessarily wild-eyed. "Bit-twiddlers" are neither exactly proletariat nor bourgeoisie. They may not own the means of production in the sense that Marx argued, but they certainly do have significantly control over those means, in a more profound way than the term "symbols analysts" or "knowledge workers" captures. As a rough generalization, they value science and technological problem-solving elegance equally at least with profit.
- Steven Weber
Collection: Mean
Image of Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.
- Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Collection: Mean
Image of S.M. Stirling
Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.
- S.M. Stirling
Collection: Mean
Image of Tony Hoagland
There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism is the system that means the most to me.
- Tony Hoagland
Collection: Mean
Image of Earl Warren
To summarize: Americans have one of the greatest legal systems, but not a monopoly of the sense of justice, which is universal; nor have we a permanent copyright on the means of securing justice, for it is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
- Earl Warren
Collection: Mean
Image of Lance Reddick
I’m interested not just in projects that I’ll be starring in, but producing film and TV that’s really quality and great for adults; and when I say great for adults, it doesn’t mean without humor, because I’m also interested in doing comedy.
- Lance Reddick
Collection: Mean
Image of Mark Spitz
There's a difference between over-training and over-exercising. Over-training can be you're trying to do something at high performance, but when you're over-exercising it just means that you don't have a life. And there are obviously people who go to that extreme.
- Mark Spitz
Collection: Mean
Image of Christopher Bond
More time on paperwork means less time spent with students or preparing lessons for students. It is as simple as that. The numerous reforms in the bill will go a long way to free our time of special educators.
- Christopher Bond
Collection: Mean
Image of Henry Jenkins
Humans do not engage in activities that are meaningless. If you think you see people doing things you find meaningless, look again and try to understand what the activities mean for them.
- Henry Jenkins
Collection: Mean
Image of Michelle Alexander
Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time. Slavery defined what it meant to be black (a slave), and Jim Crow defined what it meant to be black (a second-class citizen). Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be black.
- Michelle Alexander
Collection: Mean
Image of Brad Bird
To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.
- Brad Bird
Collection: Mean
Image of Harry Mulisch
A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.
- Harry Mulisch
Collection: Mean
Image of Harry Mulisch
I never understood how anyone could feel small compared with the universe. After all, man knows how overwhelmingly large it is, and a few others things besides, and that means he is not small. The fact that man has discovered all this precisely proves his greatness.
- Harry Mulisch
Collection: Mean
Image of Myron Scholes
All models have faults - that doesnt mean you cant use them as tools for making decisions.
- Myron Scholes
Collection: Mean
Image of Jean Baudrillard
The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was there when it began. This is a scandal. Such a scandal for the human race that it is indeed capable collectively, out of spite, of hastening the end of the world by all means just so it can enjoy the show.
- Jean Baudrillard
Collection: Mean
Image of Bob Goff
Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.
- Bob Goff
Collection: Mean
Image of William J. Brennan
We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans. We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. For the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.
- William J. Brennan
Collection: Mean
Image of William J. Brennan
The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right.
- William J. Brennan
Collection: Mean
Image of W. G. Sebald
By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment
- W. G. Sebald
Collection: Mean
Image of Max Barry
She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented new bullshit on the spot to justify why the answer was still no. When people said, Convince me, she knew it didn’t mean they had an open mind. It meant they had power and wanted to enjoy it a minute.
- Max Barry
Collection: Mean
Image of Pete Doherty
I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things that haven’t been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that “intellectual” is quite an exclusive word. I think it’s just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.
- Pete Doherty
Collection: Mean
Image of Cardinal Richelieu
To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies.
- Cardinal Richelieu
Collection: Mean
Image of Ieyasu Tokugawa
Life means that I can live to see tomorrow.
- Ieyasu Tokugawa
Collection: Mean
Image of Michael Ondaatje
Death means you are in the third person.
- Michael Ondaatje
Collection: Mean
Image of Phyllis Bottome
Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?
- Phyllis Bottome
Collection: Mean
Image of Tom Robbins
The Devil doesn't make us do anything. The Devil, for example, doesn't make us mean. Rather, when we're mean, we make the Devil. Literally. Our actions create him. Conversely, when we behave with compassion, generosity, and grace, we create God in the world.
- Tom Robbins
Collection: Mean
Image of Flann O'Brien
I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end.
- Flann O'Brien
Collection: Mean
Image of Alexander Shulgin
There is a wealth of information built into us ... tucked away in the genetic material in every one of our cells ... without some means of access, there is no way even to begin to guess at the extent and quality of what is there. The psychedelic drugs allow exploration of this interior world, and insights into its nature.
- Alexander Shulgin
Collection: Mean
Image of Alexander Shulgin
... How is it [, then] that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very important means of learning and self-discovery, this means which has been used, respected, and honored for thousands of years, in every human culture of which we have a record?
- Alexander Shulgin
Collection: Mean
Image of Joshua Reynolds
There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention.
- Joshua Reynolds
Collection: Mean
Image of Gavin de Becker
Persistence only proves persistence-it does not prove love. The fact that a romantic pursuer is relentless doesn't mean you are special-it means he is troubled.
- Gavin de Becker
Collection: Mean
Image of George Osborne
You need to have a state pension that doesn't drag more and more people into means-testing each year and make it very difficult for people on low to medium term incomes to save and not see their savings clawed away.
- George Osborne
Collection: Mean
Image of Jose Rizal
To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness!
- Jose Rizal
Collection: Mean
Image of Lake Bell
I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.
- Lake Bell
Collection: Mean
Image of Melina Marchetta
What is it? A prize or something? No. It's not a prize and I'm not a prize. But it's mine. It belongs to me and I can only give it away once, and I want to be so sure when it happens. I don't want to say that the first time for me was bad or it didn't mean a thing.
- Melina Marchetta
Collection: Mean
Image of Alexander Pope
Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.
- Alexander Pope
Collection: Mean
Image of Max Stirner
I say: liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more expressively, not to everyone is that a limit which is a limit for the rest. Consequently, do not tire yourself with toiling at the limits of others; enough if you tear down yours. He who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means; the overturning of their limits remains their affair.
- Max Stirner
Collection: Mean