Quotes about mean
mean divorce reality
Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality undistorted by their feelings. "Things as they are" are things as perceived by your mind; divorce them from reason and they become "things as perceived by your wishes. Ayn Rand
mean men animal
When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals.
mean men evil
When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means is: "I am unwilling to be wholly good - and please don't regard me as wholly evil!"
mean men rights
The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence - to protect his right to his own life, to his own liberty, to his own property and to the pursuit of his own happiness. Without property rights, no other rights are possible.
mean men animal
The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.
means
We're 2-2 and all that means is we're .500.
mean nicest possible
Yes, it's throbbing, ... And I mean that in the nicest possible way. Nathan Lane
mean magic world
Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement - that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a performance that may some day be considered understandable, but that, in these primitive times, so transcends what is said to be the known that it is what I mean by magic. Charles Fort
mean data forts
A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.
mean writing night
A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn't much good. Charles Bukowski
mean kids voice
Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it's good here, it can be very good here.
mean
There is no hurry. Time means nothing to you.
mean sleep talking
Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops.
mean people waste
I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.
mean giving awareness
I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean?
mean men style
Style means no shield at all. Style means no front at all. Style means ultimate naturalness. Style means one man alone with billions of men about.
mean interesting people
People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them; they would mean less and less to me.
means miss
When I do that, it means I'm not going to miss the ball. Maria Sharapova
mean greed sin
Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins. Edward Abbey
mean doe ends
If the end does not justify the means - what can?
mean environmental world
It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.
mean men ends
For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
mean leader clubs
A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
meaningful blessing mind
Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.
mean men ideal-society
The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
mean exercise world
Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.
mean eyebrows mind
My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen. Eddie Redmayne
mean piano guitar
The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records. Eddie Van Halen
mean race people
I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.
mean actors may
I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project. Atom Egoyan
mean good-day people
The definition of what it means to be dying has changed radically. We are able to extend people's lives considerably, including sometimes, good days. Atul Gawande
meaningful pain sleep
In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.
mean may circumstances
You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.