mean quotes

“We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.”

— Aesop

“Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. ”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. ”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? ”

— Victor Hugo

“As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.”

— Victor Hugo

“My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. ”

— Franz Kafka

“Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.”

— Franz Kafka

“Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence”

— Franz Kafka

“Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. ”

— Franz Kafka

“The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool. ”

— Ovid

“For I can raise no money by vile means.”

— William Shakespeare

“You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

“Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.”

— Robert Redford

“He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life. ”

— Robert Redford

“I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.”

— Robert Redford

“Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion. ”

— Robert Redford

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Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.
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— Robert Redford

“Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.”

— Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons. ”

— Lil Wayne

“Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books. ”

— Dr Seuss

“I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it. ”

— Eminem

“Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use. ”

— Sai Baba

“Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. ”

— George Washington Bush

“I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve. ”

— George Washington Bush

“Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.”

— George Washington Bush