mean quotes

“While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.”

“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

“After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.”

“If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.”

“The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it? ”

“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. ”

“In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.”

“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”

“How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?”

“Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. ”

“Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. ”

“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”

“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.”

“In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech. ”

“Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. ”

“Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.”

Mean quotes - By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

“By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.”

Mean quotes - Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.

“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.”

“Silence is argument carried out by other means.”

Mean quotes - Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

“I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.”

“I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.”

“I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.”

“We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.”

“Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.”

“Heaven means to be one with God.”

“Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!”

“Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.”

“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. ”