Mean quotes

“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

“It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.” Lois McMaster Bujold

“A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.” Lois McMaster Bujold

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

“What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.” Charlie Chaplin

“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.” Steve Jobs

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

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

“ By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.” Socrates

“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.” Socrates

“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.” Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

“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.” Roger Zelazny

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.” Philip Kindred Dick

“Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age.” Albert Einstein

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

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

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

“Silence is argument carried out by other means.” Che Guevara

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

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” Bruce Lee

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

“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.” Antonio Banderas

“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.” Antonio Banderas

“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.” Antonio Banderas

“Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.” Gore Vidal

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

“Heaven means to be one with God.” Confucius

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

“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.” Dalai Lama

“For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.” Thomas Jefferson