Mean Quotes - Page 670

It's very difficult for any particular segment of the stock market to sustain superior performance. The watch word for our financial markets is, "reversion to the mean" i.e. what goes up must come down, and it's true more often than you can imagine.

We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather than approximately right

In a country like America, there are places, many states here still where coming out means you lose your job, where coming out means division, where it means potentially abuse.

I admire Serena Williams, because, I mean, who doesn't admire Serena Williams?

People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.

Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

In order to experience and understand what it means to be a Christian, it is always necessary to recognize a definite historical situation.

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.

Culture means control over nature.

Truth is, no two people are completely compatible. We have to learn to become one. That means we may have to make sacrifices; we may have to overlook some things. We must be willing to compromise for the good of the relationship.

Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn’t think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, that’s right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. I’d seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldn’t go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis.

When a ball goes into a net it only means something because we decided it means something. When somebody punches somebody in the face it always means something.

Seasteading could be the means by which humanity will live sustainably.

I mean, I feel like I've been pretending I was a werewolf since I was a little kid.

The wolves are never meant to be anything other than defending. They're not meant to be aggressors.

Just because something has always been done a certain way does not necessarily mean it’s the best way, or the correct way, or the healthiest way for your horse, or your relationship with your horse, or your life.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

I want to change the system from within the system. And that means focusing and specializing.

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.

Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know.

Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.

I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?

The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy thinking but in theory a benign ideal. In Washington, however, a community in which the management of news has become the single overriding preoccupation of the core industry, what 'fairness' has often come to mean is a scrupulous passivity, an agreement to cover the story not as it is occurring but as it is presented, which is to say as it is manufactured.