Quotes about mean
mean views intellectual
As you probably know, I'm often accused of intellectual exhibitionism and all forms of elitism. Although I can understand this point of view, it's a rather wasted argument because, if we regard areas of information as being elite and therefore somehow not usable, it means our centre-ground of activity becomes very, very impoverished. Peter Greenaway
mean rockets firsts
I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets. Perry Farrell
mean deceit show-me
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit. Pericles
mean community doe
Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.
mean thinking often-is
We all press buttons in relationships, in our dealings with people, without thinking what it really means. We all knock along without questioning what kind of situation we're in. We may often be in a very good one, but we don't even appreciate the good situations. We're lazy. Or we're scared. Or we just don't notice. Pauline Collins
mean kids color
I went to my first civil rights rally when I was 17 years old. I was a little skinny blond kid, scared to death, marching against the KKK in South Georgia. And I have never stopped marching in protests since. Not ever. I mean, LGBT rights, women's rights, the rights of people of color... I'm your guy. I'm going to be out there marching! Pauley Perrette
mean writing forget-you
With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work. Paullina Simons
mean san-francisco invasion
In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In Los Angeles, there is so much money and power connected with ostentation that is no longer ludicrous: it commands a kind of respect. For if the mighty behave like this, then quiet good taste means that you can't afford the conspicuous expenditures, and you become a little ashamed of your modesty and propriety. Pauline Kael
mean people
My poems mean what people take them to mean. Paul Valery
mean successful science
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
mean law affection
It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.
mean men expression
The "determinist" swears that if we knew everything we should also be able to deduce and foretell the conduct of every man in every circumstance, and that is obvious enough. But the expression "know everything" means nothing.
mean sincerity sincere
To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it means.
mean moments
to live means to lack something at every moment
mean views point-of-view
To hit someone means to adopt his point of view.
mean winning awards
When you win an award from the Grammys, it means a lot 'cause it's voted on by 100% by the people. It's not like some old guy sitting at a desk picking. It's doesn't work like that. It's voted on by your peers in the music industry. Paul Wall
mean poetry machines
A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words. Paul Verlaine
mean heart mind
Intelligence doesn't just mean tracking down terrorists; It means finding out what is in people's hearts and minds and discovering the complexity of most issues. Karen Armstrong
mean compassion perspective
Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of attaining enlightenment. It dethrones the ego from the center of our lives and puts others there, breaking down the carapace of the selfishness that holds us back from an experience of the sacred. And it gives us ecstasy, broadening our perspectives and giving us a larger, enhanced vision.
mean compassion cells
The more aggressive our ideologies become, the more aggressive our discourse whether it's in the United States, from Washington D.C., or whether it's from Tehran, or from some underground Al-Qaeda cell. The more aggressive that discourse is, the more people of moderate persuasion have to organize and speak a voice of compassion. That means to feel with the other.
mean practice two
People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And that was essential that the discourse of science or logic related directed to the external world. The other was mythos, what the Greeks called myth, which didn't mean a fantasy story, but it was a narrative associated with ritual and ethical practice but it helped us to address problems for which there were no easy answers, like mortality, cruelty, the sorrow that overtakes us all that's part of the human condition. And these two were not in opposition, we needed both.
mean rushing people
I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
mean thinking worry
If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over. Joyce Meyer
mean unanswered-questions lessons
I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything... to know what's going on so I can feel like I'm in control.
mean giving people
When I ask people to give, I can't be on television if they don't; I can't help people, if I don't - I mean, it takes money.
mean fighting difficulty
Serving God doesn’t mean we’ll no longer have difficulties. We’re still on the battlefield, but we don’t have to fight alone.
mean rules-and-regulations matter
Religion is a very dangerous thing. By that I mean being so caught up in rules and regulations and not focusing on the thing that matters most- a personal relationship with God.
mean opportunity sometimes
Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.
mean tiny compromise
To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.
mean littles foxes
Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.
mean answers trust-me
Trust means we always have questions that we don't have the answers to.
mean progress feels
Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid!
mean acting publicity
A flair for publicity does not necessarily mean a flair for acting. Katharine Cornell