Quotes about mean
mean government people
It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office—any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government. Theodore Roosevelt
mean rights supremacy
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.
mean men stronger
A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.
mean opportunity games
I stand for the square deal. I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.
mean rivers greed
Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.
mean doe generations
There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection.
mean america justice
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.
mean envy hatred
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
mean intelligent understanding-god
Once He created the Big Bang... He could have envisioned it going in billions of directions as it evolved, including billions of life-forms and billions of kinds of intelligent beings. As a theologian, I would say that the proposed search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is also a search of knowing and understanding God through his works - especially those works that most reflect Him. Finding others than ourselves would mean knowing Him better. Theodore Hesburgh
mean lamps revival
A genuine revival means a trimming of personal lamps. Theodore L. Cuyler
mean feelings together
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. Theodore Dreiser
mean shadow chakra
How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.
mean evil simplicity
The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd. Theodor Mommsen
mean trying half
I actually am fairly uncomfortable about it, even if our firm stipulation was that they cannot tell us what to do. We are simply doing what we do anyways - securing software - and they have no say in the matter. I try to convince myself that our grant means a half of a cruise missile doesn't get built.
mean sound jargon
Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean. Theodor Adorno
mean break-through coercion
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
mean thinking moments
Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
mean reflection self
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
mean comeback insult
To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.
mean singing singers
I feel like my singing is not conventional. I mean, if you look at technique, I'm not a technical singer. The Weeknd
mean heart doe
What does it mean when your heart's already numb? You're a professional.
mean looks keyboards
It can't be any new note. When you look at the keyboard, all the notes are there already. But if you mean a note enough, it will sound different. You got to pick the notes you really mean! Thelonious Monk
mean jazz drummer
Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.
mean challenges hiv
Your medical documents will say: acquired immune deficiency syndrome, that is AIDS, which means that you have got this challenge of immune deficiency. All right, what causes immune deficiency? HIV? All right, is that all that causes immune deficiency? And your medical textbooks would say no, there are other things that will cause acquired immune deficiency. There is also a genetic immune deficiency, a different phenomenon. Thabo Mbeki
meaningful terrorism mockery
Saying We will destroy terrorism is about as meaningful as saying: We shall annihilate mockery. Terry Jones
mean apples people
Yeah, I like working in television, a lot. I really enjoyed my time on 'Lost.' I like developing that hint of family with people. I mean, if you're on a happy set. If you're on a set where there's some sour apples, then I don't like working in television. Terry O'Quinn
mean journey knives
HOROSCOPE: Today is a good time for making new friends. A good deed may have unforeseen consequences. Don’t upset any druids. You will soon be going on a very strange journey. Your lucky food is small cucumbers. People pointing knives at you are probably up to no good. PS, we really mean it about the druids. Terry Pratchett
mean law privilege
Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.
mean thinking people
Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.
mean progress faster
Progress just means bad things happen faster.
mean upset favors
If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.
mean eugenics giving
Birth Control which has been criticized as negative and destructive, is really the greatest and most truly eugenic method, and its adoption as part of the program of Eugenics would immediately give a concrete and realistic power to that science. . . as the most constructive and necessary of the means to racial health. Margaret Sanger
mean birth-control birth
birth control is the means by which woman attains basic freedom ...