Quotes about mean
mean eye compassion
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes, it is to be feared, are seldom turned up to those who are manifestly greater, better, wiser, or happier than ourselves, without some degree of malignity, we commonly look downward on the mean and miserable with sufficient benevolence and pity. Henry Fielding
meaningful feminist half
You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world. Helene D. Gayle
mean desire ifs
If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through. Helene Cixous
meaningful sea brain
In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful. Helena Christensen
mean lasts tiny
J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit part. Up front, they said, 'You're very significant in the last one.' But significant could mean a lot of things. That could just mean a significant plot point. Doesn't necessarily equal big part. Helena Bonham Carter
mean two hair
There is no normality in life. Having two houses means that we can get out of each other's hair - which, let's face it, we've both got a lot of
mean people wish
Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile.
mean persistence energy
Talent means energy and persistence and nothing more! Heinrich Schliemann
mean roles process
As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed. Helen Clark
mean years important
Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it. John Knowles
meaningful world would-be
I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.
mean perfect firsts
The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy. Johann Heinrich Lambert
mean causes doe
Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost. Johann Most
mean past men
Our principle is: to prevent all command over man by his fellowmen, to, make state, government, laws, or whatsoever form of compulsion existing, a thing of the past, to establish full freedom for all. Anarchism means first and foremost freedom from all government.
mean writing use
Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means - speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point; to accelerate revolutionary development.
mean formal schemas
This Being out of God cannot, by any means, be a limited, completed, and inert Being, since God himself is not such a dead Being, but, on the contrary, is Life; but it can only be a Power, since only a Power is the true formal picture or Schema of Life. And indeed it can only be the Power of realising that which is contained in itself a Schema. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
mean self existence
Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves. Johann Kaspar Lavater
mean decision wish
I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
mean sunday church
To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.
mean talking giving
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.
mean discovery priorities
No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor, it can be utterly spoiled for us, for we are usually not the first. What does discovery mean, and who can say that he has discovered this or that? After all it's pure idiocy to brag about priority; for it's simply unconscious conceit, not to admit frankly that one is a plagiarist.
mean goal mind
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
mean men vanity
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him. Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day.
mean men people
What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.
mean advice accepting
Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.
mean men fighter
For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
mean age literature
National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.
mean poetry everyday
After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.
meaningful common-sense humanity
Common sense is the genius of humanity.
mean machines information
If you knew how much information the campaigns had on you, you'd turn off your machines. And I mean that literally. Joe Trippi
mean artist suffering
An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer. Joe Wright
mean kids thinking
I think Pan is a superhero movie; I mean, the kid flies in the end.
mean-girls wife suits
He asked why and I said, 'Because Gwyneth has a fat suit, my wife has a fat suit - I don't get a fat suit?' He looked at me and said, 'You mean you don't have one on?' Joe Viterelli