Quotes about mean
mean expectations people
Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will. Epictetus
mean men errors
Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish to live in error? We do not. No one who lives in error is free. Do you wish to live in fear? Do you wish to live in sorrow? Do you wish to live in tension? By no means. No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties, he is at the same time also delivered from servitude.
mean eye men
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.' For the man who has once stooped to consider such questions, and to reckon up the value of external things, is not far from forgetting what manner of man he is.
mean victory invincible
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
mean light breathing
What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things. Emily Carr
mean names two
My name is Kirby Rose, and I'm adopted. I don't mean to make it sound like an AA confession, although sometimes that's how people take it, like it's something they should be supportive about. I just mean that they are two basic facts about me. Emily Giffin
mean black-and-white sometimes
Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.
mean soul soul-mate
you'd do anything to get a soul mate back, right?… I mean, that's the nature of soul mates.
mean temptation wicked
You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make you wicked - but I was - and am - and shall be - and I was with you so much that I couldn't help contaminate. Emily Dickinson
mean knowing heaven
I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means.
mean doe states
When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person.
mean focus singers
The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there's always a place for that too. Emeli Sande
mean rooms sides
I mean, there'll always be room for big productions and everything but it's good to see the other side.
mean passion clothes
I mean, if you love what you do-whether you're an auto mechanic or you sew clothes or you cook-it's all about personal passion and love that really makes the thrust to the level that you want to get it to. Emeril Lagasse
mean spices levels
Being a food show and being me, I always kicked it up a notch, which means I would always elevate the spice level or the complexity of a particular dish. So, it was always like we're going to kick this up a little bit.
mean giving bed
Those other 10 o'clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean?
mean
Everything means nothing to me Elliott Smith
mean perfect too-late
It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That is what is happening at this moment with respect to physical chemistry; the founders are hampered in their general grasp by third and fourth decimal places. Henri Poincare
mean pigs piano
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer might be replaced by the "logic piano" imagined by Stanley Jevons; or, if you choose, a machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.
mean destiny turns
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical. Henrik Ibsen
mean sake duty
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.
mean exercise drawing
Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods. Henri Matisse
mean drawing color
Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
mean artist expression
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
mean cutting two
From Bonheur de Vivre - I was thirty-five then - to this cut-out - I am eighty-two - I have not changed; not in the way my friends mean who want to compliment me, no matter what, on my good health, but because all this time I have looked for the same things, which I have perhaps realized by different means...
mean color sky
When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.
mean people age
To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age. Henri Nouwen
mean waiting want
Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.
mean trying doe
We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat.
mean compassion vulnerable
Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
mean compassion being-human
Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
mean waiting identity
Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
mean reflection interesting
Forgiveness means that I continually am willing to forgive the other person for not being God — for not fulfilling all my needs. I, too, must ask forgiveness for not being able to fulfill other people's needs. … The interesting thing is that when you can forgive people for not being God, then you can celebrate that they are a reflection of God.