Top Mean Quotes Collection - Page 96

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Image of Ryan Reynolds
I mean, Deadpool has a script, but it's a very complicated process to find the right filmmaker. We'll see.
- Ryan Reynolds
Collection: Mean
Image of Lin Yutang
I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.
- Lin Yutang
Collection: Mean
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Mean
Image of Thomas Paine
In the first part of 'Rights of Man' I have endeavoured to show...that there does not exist a right to establish hereditary government...because hereditary government always means a government yet to come, and the case always is, that the people who are to live afterwards, have always the same right to choose a government for themselves, as the people had who have lived before them.
- Thomas Paine
Collection: Mean
Image of Thomas Paine
Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.
- Thomas Paine
Collection: Mean
Image of Elisabeth Elliot
Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly. The opposite of modesty is conceit, boldness, immodesty, brazenness, lewdness.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Collection: Mean
Image of Lou Reed
People can vote for who ever they want. That doesn't mean I have to go near them.
- Lou Reed
Collection: Mean
Image of Boris Becker
We have a guy from Switzerland who is just playing the game in a way I haven't seen anyone - and I mean anyone - play before. How fortunate we are to be able to see that. If he stays healthy and motivated - and the wonderful feel he has stays with him - he is the kind of guy who can overtake the greatest.
- Boris Becker
Collection: Mean
Image of Ayn Rand
Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, from the employer, or freedom from the laws of nature which do not provide men with automatic prosperity. It means freedom from the coercive power of the state ' and nothing else
- Ayn Rand
Collection: Mean
Image of Ayn Rand
A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y delimited sphere of action--for choosing the practical means of implementing a society’s basic principles. But those principles are not determined by vote.
- Ayn Rand
Collection: Mean
Image of Dallas Willard
We have to have the Vision. And we have to form the Intention. And we have to adopt the Means. Vision. Intention. Means. And if we do that, then it works! Every individual, every church, every organization... that's all we need to do.
- Dallas Willard
Collection: Mean
Image of Dallas Willard
Hearing God is about the very specific issue of what it means to live with guidance in our life.
- Dallas Willard
Collection: Mean
Image of Richard M. Nixon
There is an international disease which feeds on the notion that if you have a cause to defend, you can use any means to further your cause, since the end justifies the means. As an international community, we must oppose this notion, whether it be in Canada, in the United States, or anywhere else. No cause justifies violence as long as the system provides for change by peaceful means.
- Richard M. Nixon
Collection: Mean
Image of Swami Vivekananda
Do you think there is any other means of achieving progress except through Rajas?
- Swami Vivekananda
Collection: Mean
Image of Jimmy Wales
We are Wikipedians. This means that we should be: kind, thoughtful, passionate about getting it right, open, tolerant of different viewpoints, open to criticism, bold about changing our policies and also cautious about changing our policies. We are not vindictive, childish, and we don't stoop to the level of our worst critics, no matter how much we may find them to be annoying.
- Jimmy Wales
Collection: Mean
Image of Adam Sandler
My buddies, we've always just tried to make each other laugh. I mean, just like all friends hanging out - that's the goal.
- Adam Sandler
Collection: Mean
Image of James Patterson
It’s wherever you are. If it’s tapped into any of your senses, it knows where you are and what you’re doing.” Oh no, I thought, my spirits sinking. I hadn’t considered that. Did that mean nothing I did was ever anymore? “Even in the bathroom?” the Gasman’s eyes widened with surprise.
- James Patterson
Collection: Mean
Image of James Patterson
Iggy nodded. “I’m bummed we couldn’t use Big Boy,” he said. “But I don’t want to waste it. We have to actually see them first. I mean, you do.” “Maybe tomorrow,” the Gasman said encouragingly. “We’ll go see what havoc we’ve wreaked.” “Wrought.
- James Patterson
Collection: Mean
Image of Theodore Roosevelt
If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Collection: Mean
Image of Donald Trump
When politicians talk about immigration reform, they usually mean the following, amnesty, open borders, lower wages. Immigration reform should mean something else entirely. It should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Mean
Image of Al Yankovic
My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
- Al Yankovic
Collection: Mean
Image of Gary Vaynerchuk
More contact means more sharing of information, gossiping, exchanging, engaging - in short, more word of mouth.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Collection: Mean
Image of Harry S. Truman
There has been a lot of talk lately about the burdens of the Presidency. Decisions that the President has to make often affect the lives of tens of millions of people around the world, but that does not mean that they should take longer to make. Some men can make decisions and some cannot. Some men fret and delay under criticism. I used to have a saying that applies here, and I note that some people have picked it up, If you cant stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
- Harry S. Truman
Collection: Mean
Image of Molly Ringwald
All of the advice that I give, I'm not an expert by any means, but it's just my opinion. So if somebody likes me or likes y style or my career, I think they should have that feeling.
- Molly Ringwald
Collection: Mean
Image of J. K. Rowling
Let me out," Harry said again. "No," Dumbledore repeated. "If you don't - if you keep me in here - if you don't let me-" "By all means continue destroying my possessions," said Dumbledore. "I daresay I have too many.
- J. K. Rowling
Collection: Mean
Image of Andre Breton
To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.
- Andre Breton
Collection: Mean
Image of Zach Braff
I don't think it's that bad, I mean, I love people following me around and helping me do stuff.
- Zach Braff
Collection: Mean
Image of Zach Braff
I've never had much sympathy for orphans, I mean, when I was their age I would have killed to have no parents to make me clean my room and stuff
- Zach Braff
Collection: Mean
Image of Samuel Beckett
The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.
- Samuel Beckett
Collection: Mean
Image of Terry Pratchett
Progress just means bad things happen faster.
- Terry Pratchett
Collection: Mean
Image of Ludwig von Mises
The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization, therefore, begins with private property.
- Ludwig von Mises
Collection: Mean
Image of Tamora Pierce
Why does this mean so much to you, Jon?" The Prince turned. "Because he's my friend. Because I always know where he stands, and where I stand with him. Because I think he'd die for me and--and I think I'd die for him. Is that enough?
- Tamora Pierce
Collection: Mean
Image of Barack Obama
Working full-time should mean enough to support a family.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Mean
Image of Flannery O'Connor
Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.
- Flannery O'Connor
Collection: Mean
Image of Rajneesh
The word religion comes from an origin which means "coming together." But priesthood has been doing just the opposite, it has created splits in man, not oneness. Religion means creating in man an organic unity; it has nothing to do with God, it has something to do with you. It has nothing to do with worship, it has something to do with a transformation of your own consciousness.
- Rajneesh
Collection: Mean
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Mean
Image of Rick Riordan
Curled up at the base of the scales, fast asleep, was the oddest monster I'd seen yet. It had the head of crocodile with a lion's mane. The front half of its body was a lion, but the back end was sleek, brown, and fat - a hippo, I decided. The odd bit was, the animal was tiny - I mean, no larger than an average poodle, which I suppose made him a hippodoodle.
- Rick Riordan
Collection: Mean
Image of Jack Welch
Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that's what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear cut choices about how to compete. You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets.
- Jack Welch
Collection: Mean
Image of Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Get inside before I spank you in public." There it was again, another of his maddening threats. Did that mean he wouldn't spank her if she did as he said or that he simply planned to spank her in private? She was still mulling over the whole unpleasant concept when he started the truck.
- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Collection: Mean
Image of Nicholas Sparks
You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters.
- Nicholas Sparks
Collection: Mean
Image of Simone de Beauvoir
Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.
- Simone de Beauvoir
Collection: Mean
Image of Edward Abbey
The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
- Edward Abbey
Collection: Mean
Image of Susan Elizabeth Phillips
You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I'm not getting rid of Pooh." "See, there you go being antagonistic. Marriage means learning to compromise." "I didn't say I wouldn't compromise. I promise to take the ribbon out of her topknot before you walk her.
- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Collection: Mean
Image of Isaac Newton
Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of the method of porisms is not so easy, nor is one's ingenuity and power of invention so greatly exercised and refined in this analysis.
- Isaac Newton
Collection: Mean
Image of Erin Wasson
Everything really needs to be paraben-free for me. I mean, because if I’m going to smoke cigarettes, then I need to be aware of all the other bullshit I’m putting into my body.
- Erin Wasson
Collection: Mean
Image of Chuck Palahniuk
Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .
- Chuck Palahniuk
Collection: Mean
Image of Terry Tempest Williams
What I mean by "An Unspoken Hunger." It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by material things. It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by the constant denial.
- Terry Tempest Williams
Collection: Mean
Image of Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton doesn't know anything about my policy. I mean, she wouldn't know anything about it.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Mean
Image of Michael Ondaatje
But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past.
- Michael Ondaatje
Collection: Mean