Mean Quotes

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Art, Stay, Sleeping

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean.
Will Smith

Love, Angry, Person

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
Paul Tournier

Life, Struggle, Nothing

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.
Eminem

Parent, Daughters

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
Henry A. Kissinger

Yourself, End, Everything

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.
Eminem

Person, Sometimes, Terrible

What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
George Carlin

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
T. S. Eliot

Important, Done, Interest

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison

Useless, Planned

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?
Jimi Hendrix

Happen, Trying, Others

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Happiness, Lost, Different

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
George Bernard Shaw

Men, Keep, Awfully

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.
Bob Dylan

Yourself, Tomorrow, Job

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.
Joel Osteen

Show, Mercy, Receiving

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?
Bill Gates

Life, Money, Giving

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Tony Robbins

Lives, Events, Beliefs

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.
Steve Jobs

Faith, Work, Long

The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.
Steve Jobs

Great, Makes, Process

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.
Nelson Mandela

Freedom, Help, Important

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
Steve Jobs

Good, Computers, Hard

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.
Ron Paul

Future, Simple, Create

When you carry a gun, you mean to harm somebody, kill somebody.
Bill Cosby

Gun, Somebody, Carry

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
Bob Dylan

Life, Time, God

When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.
Bill Cosby

It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I could do beyond this. It's really a bittersweet kind of feeling.
Will Smith

Feeling, Else, Possible

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
Bob Dylan

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley

Age, Old, Child

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Robert H. Schuller

Failure, Means, Succeeded

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
Douglas Adams

Long, May, Down

I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.
Barack Obama

Money, Made, Enough

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