Mean Quotes
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Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything.
It's the time we spent together that matters,
not how we left it.
- Trey Parker

Just because I don't care,
doesn't mean I don't understand.
- Matt Groening's TV series The Simpsons.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up
in our politics and say definite things which mean something,
or whether we shall always go on using generalities
to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous

The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire

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

I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln

An "always been" does not mean I must choose "what must be."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We get to CHOOSE the meaning for our lives.
Our lives mean exactly what we say they do - no more, no less.
Each of us chooses their path in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller

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.

What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,
"it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
- Lewis Carroll

You can't move so fast that you try to change
the mores faster than people can accept it.
That doesn't mean you do nothing,
but it means that you do the things that
need to be done according to priority.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous

Sucking the marrow out of life
doesn't mean choking on the bone.
- Robin Williams as John Keating
in the 1989 movie Dead Poets Society

Life's like Vegas. You're up, you're down,
but in the end the house always wins.
Doesn't mean you didn't have fun.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry

"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know."
It is "I can't know."
"I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."
- Wener Karl Heisenberg

It is our experience that political leaders do not
always mean the opposite of what they say.
- Abba Eban

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that
we are immune to their operations.
- David Gerrold

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
- Irene Peter

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

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,'
they really mean,
'not really.'
- Dave Parnas

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

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

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance;
and a people who mean to be their own governors must
arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
- James Madison

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
- Albert Einstein

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world
doesn't mean you are wiser
than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
- Edward R. Murrow

Be Impeccable With Your Word.
Speak with integrity.
Say only what you mean.
Avoid using your word to speak against yourself
or to gossip about others.
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Be clear with yourself about what you mean
in conversations with others, and especially with yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me.
They don't mean anything.
- Oliver Hudson

A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous

I don't mean to complain.
I wouldn't trade my life for anything.
- Lucinda Williams

We seem to somewhat be behind an eight ball,
and what I mean by that is we're constantly waiting
for a call from Neil as to whether he wants to do CSNY.
- Graham Nash

Words mean more than what is set down on paper.
It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
- Maya Angelou

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist,
but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
- James Russell Lowell

Oh it's clearly a cover up.
I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that.
- Christopher Shays

If he is a ghost, then it's very disappointing for me,
because he is banished in the story,
and that could mean that he won't be coming back,
and that would be terrible, wouldn't it?
- Paul Darrow

No, I mean, I most certainly date and go out.
- Liza Minnelli

I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business
so everything was bright to me.
I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.
- Billy Eckstine

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends,
it simply means the river bends.
- J. Enoch Powell

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation,
nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
- E. Stanley Jones

I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice.
But still, I'm only a person.
- Jonathan Brandis

Self-determination could mean independence,
confederacy, federal and autonomy.
- Jalal Talabani

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

You can be knocked down, but it doesn't mean you're out.
- Judd Nelson

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition:
with it we are great,
generous, and true; without it, we are little,
false, and mean.
- Letitia Landon

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before,
Or else I am awake for the first time,
and all before has been a mean sleep.
- Walt Whitman

I have long since come to believe that people never
mean half of what they say,
and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
- Dorothy Day

I mean, every Star Trek episode you saw was just phenomenal.
- Persis Khambatta

I work from awkwardness.
By that I mean I don't like to arrange things.
If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it,
I arrange myself.
- Diane Arbus

The fact that we're in the playoffs doesn't mean anything to us,
to be honest with you.
Hopefully, we can accomplish our goal of going into
the playoffs on a winning note.
- Michael Strahan

The difficulty of literature is not to write,
but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader,
but to affect him precisely as you wish.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York,
and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable.
- Robert Rauschenberg

Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant.
Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy.
But that does not mean that the humor need stop.
- Allen Klein

Acting is all about timing.
I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?
- Coolio

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all.
The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
- Ernie Banks

I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.
- Eugene Ormandy

Thoroughly read all your contracts.
I really mean thoroughly.
- Bret Michaels

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing
and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person
of sense and character detests and despises it.
- George Washington

Success doesn't mean that you are healthy,
success doesn't mean that you're happy,
success doesn't mean that you're rested.
Success really doesn't mean that you look good,
or feel good, or are good.
- Victoria Principal

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept.
11 and the aftermath.
If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.
- David Rockefeller

I mean the flesh, never fade!
The flesh never leave the creation, see,
because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade.
If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade,
seen?
- Peter Tosh

I don't mean this in a stuck-up way,
but I needed an attitude song.
- Gwen Stefani

Awards don't really mean much.
- Uta Hagen

Logic plus logic equals the illogical.
Do you know what I mean?
- Jason Schwartzman