Quotes about mean
mean envy safe
Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.] Horace
mean envy golden
There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
mean writing bears
Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]
mean land pieces
As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.
mean europe class
What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?
mean views defense
It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense. Herman Kahn
mean people together
I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict. Herbie Hancock
mean people african-american
One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.
meaning-of-life needs fame
You don't need the fame to be vital.
mean government evil
Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works. Herbert Spencer
mean mad insanity
My means are sane, my motives and my object mad. Herman Melville
mean years one-day
The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet's year is completed, it will be found to be central. Henry David Thoreau
mean thinking hypocrisy
Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which would be more disreputable.
mean men hands
To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.
mean blood law
Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
mean cities ideas
I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come. Jerry Garcia
mean want pace
Want keeps pace with dignity. Destitute of the lawful means of supporting his rank, his dignity presents a motive for malversation, and his power furnishes the means. Jeremy Bentham
mean car guarantees
If somebody tells me, 'You have to pass that car right there,' I guarantee you I'm going to step up the aggressiveness to a whole other level and that may mean beating and banging. But until it calls for that moment, I'm not expecting to go out there and just beat and bang for no reason. Jeff Gordon
mean gun glory
Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun. Gregory David Roberts
mean rocks berries
Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional. Ian Anderson
mean pride people
I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who mean something special to us. James De La Vega
mean events
At all events, I do not mean to leave it unaltered. James Branch Cabell
mean wicked action
In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury. Giacomo Casanova
mean cake half
I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked? Jessica Savitch
mean meditation-practice meditation-and-yoga
Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end. Jiddu Krishnamurti
mean church inward
Conversion must mean more than just being a 'card-carrying' member of the church with a tithing receipt, a membership card, a temple recommend, etc. It means to overcome the tendencies to criticize and to strive continually to improve inward weaknesses and not merely the outward appearances. Harold B. Lee
mean doe domination
Leadership does not mean domination. Haile Selassie
mean people wish
Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others
mean writing dark
Look, I like gritty. I write gritty. There is a time and a place for gritty. I'll take my Batman gritty, thank you, and I will acknowledge that such a portrayal means that my 11-year-old has to wait before he sees The Dark Knight. But if Hollywood turns out a Superman movie that I can't take him to? They've done something wrong. Greg Rucka
mean dark potters
Honey, I liked the Harry Potter movies, too, but that doesn’t mean I ran out and got a Dark Mark tattooed onto my left forearm like you did. Jim Butcher
mean thinking design
In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action. Howard Rheingold
mean decision mindfulness
Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.
mean places-you-go surveillance
You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.