Mean quotes

“Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.” Michelle Obama

“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

“I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.” Joel Osteen

“People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.” Joel Osteen

“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

“To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.” Ron Paul

“I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.” Dolly Parton

“Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.” Blaise Pascal

“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?” Chuck Palahniuk

“Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.” Chuck Palahniuk

“What we don't understand we can make mean anything.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.” Colin Powell

“Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.” Thomas Paine

“And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.” Mitt Romney

“Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.” Mitt Romney

“And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.” Mitt Romney

“The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.” Mitt Romney

“Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” Ronald Reagan

“I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.” Ronald Reagan

“Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.” Ayn Rand

“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.” Ayn Rand

“I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.” Keith Richards

“I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.” Keith Richards

“I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.” Babe Ruth

“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.” Theodore Roosevelt

“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.” Tony Robbins

“It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.” Tony Robbins

“You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.” Tony Robbins

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

“I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.” Henry Rollins