Quotes about mean
mean survival term
Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death. Jacques Derrida
mean play differences
1) Différance is the systematic play of differences, of the traces of differences, of the spacing by means of which elements are related to each other. This spacing is the simultaneously active and passive (the a of différance indicates this indecision as concerns activity and passivity, that which cannot be governed by or distributed between the terms of this opposition) production of the intervals without which the "full" terms would not signify, would not function.
mean men race
Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word "race" has a fair claim to being the most common, most ambiguous and most explosive. No one today would deny that it is one of the great catchwords about which ink and blood are spilled in reckless quantities. Yet no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Jacques Barzun
mean simple agreement
Regarding the idea of race, .. no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races?.
mean past ideas
"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism. Jack Williamson
mean fairy-tale conquer
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor. Jack Zipes
mean-girls thinking media
I don't think they're more temperamental people now. With social media we hear a lot more about it. The nastiness you get online, there were always mean girls - always - they didn't have such a big forum as they do now. Mean girls ought to get a life, I think. Jacki Weaver
mean boys people
In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means. Jackie Cooper
mean play people
In my bands, I don't really walk around telling people what to play, just out of respect really. I mean, if there's something I feel in my gut, I'll bring it up. Jack White
mean thinking interesting
I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who... cares? James Gandolfini
mean feelings littles
The one word love means too little for what it is. It doesn't communicate even a fraction of the feelings involved. Love. The word is not enough for what it is. Love. Love. James Frey
mean littles enough
Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough.
mean ideas assuming
Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work. J. William Fulbright
mean responsibility support
The Israelis object to an imposed settlement I don't know what they mean by an imposed settlement. It's quite obvious, without the all out support by the United States in money and weapons and so on the Israelis couldn't do what they've been doing. So we bear a very great share of the responsibility for the continuation of this...of this state of warfare.
mean trying outsiders
We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.
mean light people
It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place. J. R. R. Tolkien
mean saving ruins
Help means ruin and saving means slaying.
mean break said
Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?
mean kind please
please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.
mean simple noble
Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless
mean late
We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to.
mean moon black
Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon; and if any of these Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed.
mean comfort holes
It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort
mean purpose knowledge-of-god
The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.
mean men practice
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice Izaak Walton
meaningful moving giving
At your worst point, the quickest way to move through it is to be a contribution as opposed to focusing on your problems. If you focus on your problems and keep giving them attention, they're going to grow. If you ignore them and do something else - I don't mean act like they're not here - but do something meaningful, it helps you work through it. Iyanla Vanzant
mean way authenticity
Authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else the same courtesy.
mean self people
I realized it was happening, but most people didn't realize it was happening. I mean, because as a self-employed person, when there is a recession or a cutback in the economy, we feel it first. Because many self-employed people provide services that are nonessential.
mean space be-true-to-yourself
Anger simply means that your personal power - your personal space, your personal sense of being - has been violated
mean doe fists
I now realize that just because you can take a punch does not mean you must stand in front of a fist, particularly not when the fist is your own.
mean cutting doors
When your way doesn't work, don't be disheartened. You must be willing to try another way. A closed door doesn't mean you have been cut off permanently. It is a challenge, an obstacle, a tool to be used.
meaningful get-real clear
I had to get really clear about what was meaningful & what wasn't, who I was & who I wasn't & who I wasn't going to be anymore.
mean events fairness
The event is not what you should be working on. You should be working on your response or reaction to an event. You either react to it - that means you become victimized, and you say this thing is happening to you - or you respond to it and say the solution must come through you - that's where you stay focused, not on the rightness, wrongness, fairness of the event, but on the appropriateness of your response.