Quotes about mean
mean hard-work trying
Doing your best means never stop trying. Benjamin Franklin
mean political-opinions law
If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have as much of it as you please: But if it means the liberty of affronting, calumniating and defaming one another, I, for my part, own myself willing to part with my share of it, whenever our legislators shall please so to alter the law and shall chearfully consent to exchange my liberty of abusing others for the privilege of not being abused myself.
mean two way
There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.
mean thinking government
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
mean plenty industry
Industry and patience are the surest means of plenty.
mean fancy outrun
Do not let fancy outrun your means.
mean play church
It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on a play. I mean, any play, anywhere - on Broadway or the Bowery or in a church basement. Ben Brantley
mean government law
National security is a really big problem for journalists, because no journalist worth his salt wants to endanger the national security, but the law talks about anyone who endangers the security of the United States is going to go to jail. So, here you are, especially in the Pentagon. Some guy tells you something. He says that's a national security matter. Well, you're supposed to tremble and get scared and it never, almost never means the security of the national government. More likely to mean the security or the personal happiness of the guy who is telling you something. Ben Bradlee
meaningful thinking people
I don't want to jump off the roof or jump for joy depending on my movie reviews, or whether it makes money. I think the larger, more meaningful things are family and the people you love. Ben Affleck
mean power secret
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. Barbara Tuchman
mean awards together
My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything. Barbra Streisand
mean envy rose
I tell you what I envy about people in love - I'd love it if someone knew me I mean really knew me. What I like what I'm afraid of what kind of toothpaste I use." - Rose Morgan
mean understanding important
Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human. Ayad Akhtar
mean medicine body
Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health. Avicenna
mean acceptance accepting
Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
mean people netherlands
My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival. People treated me extremely well.
mean writing want
I would like to sit and and write some acoustic stuff. That's what I want to do. It means creatively, that's what I want so I need to do that for myself and then I'll see. Avril Lavigne
mean water people
It's important to be thankful, even if you're poor. I mean, come on, we all have clean water—well OK, not people in the developing world.
mean people special
Just because you're famous doesn't mean you're something special and you're above other people.
mean america film
To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it. Arthur Cohn
meaningful glasses space
Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space. Arthur Erickson
mean body offense
As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful. Arthur C. Clarke
mean successful moon
If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain of this: for all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean- 'spaceship.'
mean experts knows
Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
mean college elderly
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Perhaps the adjective 'elderly' requires definition. In physics, mathematics, and astronautics it means over thirty; in the other disciplines, senile decay is sometimes postponed to the forties. There are, of course, glorious exceptions; but as every researcher just out of college knows, scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of the laboratory!
mean men dying
And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive. Anton Chekhov
mean medicine advice
Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.
mean faces slabs
To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face
mean live-simply amusing
To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic
mean promise rifles
One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.
mean literature sauce
A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
mean goal achieve
Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals render the goals themselves despicable.
meaningful silly healthy
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.