Quotes about mean
mean class humanity
We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves. Gilbert K. Chesterton
mean men poverty
By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.
mean successful wealth
There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.
mean office politics
When [a politician] is in opposition, he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it. In short, when he is impotent he proves to us that the thing is easy; and when he is omnipotent he proves that it is impossible.
mean liberty superstitions
The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.
mean government cynical
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
mean political politician
Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.
mean too-much doe
Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.
mean ideas principles
Only by walking with God can we hope to find the path that leads to life. That is what it means to be a disciple. After all -- aren't we 'followers of Christ'? Then by all means, let's actually follow him. Not ideas about him. Not just his principles. Him. John Eldredge
mean ignorant world
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason. John Dryden
mean hands pimp
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
mean evil safe
The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might not be affected by safe and open means. John Marshall
mean letters spirit
Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the constitution, are constitutional.
mean eye two
The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.
mean law essence
The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. This is the very essence of judicial duty.
mean break stage
Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing. John Mayer
mean waiting world
We just feel like we don't have the means, to rise above and beat it...so we keep waiting, waiting on the world to change.
mean men people
By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft. John Maynard Keynes
mean economics currency
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
mean employment investing
I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
mean men law
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose.
mean blood opposites
So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly stand for what they most dislike, the opposite of the blond beast intellectualist, individualist, supernationalist, pacifist, inky, plump... How should they know the glory of the free-ranging intellect and soft objective sympathy to whom money and violence, drink and blood and pomp, mean absolutely nothing?
mean reality hands
The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life-will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease
mean wow doe
I've got a business manager and he'll just come right out and say, 'It wasn't the best part for you,' or 'It was okay, but I've seen you do better.' So when he does say, 'Wow that was great!,' then I know that he means it and it's something. John Mahoney
mean people needs
Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people. John Maeda
mean love-is ends
The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting. John Lyly
mean may pits
UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless. John Major
mean childhood ifs
One doesn't know if one had a happy childhood or not. I don't really know what it means. John Malkovich
mean utopia elsewhere
Utopia means elsewhere.
mean design building
You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.
mean matter problem
I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.
mean quality way
Along with the good qualities, if someone isn't vulnerable I can't be around them to a certain extent. And I don't mean vulnerable to me or vulnerable to me in a sexual way. I just mean vulnerable, period.
mean waste wasting-time
Rest is by no means a waste of time. John Lubbock