Mean Quotes - Page 392

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.

I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.

The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.

I figure I just keep working and let the chips fall where they may, and if that means I end up having an eclectic career, so be it. For me to try to manipulate things or for me to try to tell people or the system how it should be...I'm just a kind of a more go-with-the-flow guy when it comes to my acting career.

When you achieve it fully, you create something that's transparent - that people can move into and through their own experiences. As a writer, I don't want people spending time thinking, "What does she mean?" I want, in a way, my text to go away. So that the words on the page become a door to one's own internal investigation. It's just a passage. If the work does its job, it just opens.

Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.

Finding your way doesn't mean you always know where you're going. It's knowing how to find your way back home that's important.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .

I'm not a U.S. citizen. I mean, I'm an earth-izen. Borderline policies are crap to me.

Money is just a piece of paper. Money burns. You know what I mean? Money is nothing substantial to me. You know what I mean? It's the enemy of music.

If you don't like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I think that in addition to being pushy, I'm nice.

For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism.

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.

Good leadership means leading the way, not hectoring other people to do things your way.

If you have only a little capital and are young today, there are fewer opportunities than when I was young. Back then, we had just come out of a depression. Capitalism was a bad word. There had been abuses in the 1920s. A joke going around then was the guy who said, 'I bought stock for my old age and it worked - in six months, I feel like an old man!' "It's tougher for you, but that doesn't mean you won't do well - it just may take more time. But what the heck, you may live longer."

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel.

In the Bible there are three distinctive meanings of grace; It means the mercy and active love of God; It means the winsome attractiveness of God; It means the strength of God to overcome.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

What is this world?--A term which men have got, To signify not one in ten knows what; A term, which with no more precision passes To point out herds of men than herds of asses; In common use no more it means, we find, Than many fools in same opinions joined.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.