Mean quotes

“Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.” Ayrton Senna

“Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.” Joseph Stalin

“Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.” Jean-Paul Sartre

“No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.” Jean-Paul Sartre

“In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.” Charles Stanley

“It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.” John Steinbeck

“I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant to be, which is fun and entertaining.” Michael Jordan

“Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.” Michael Jordan

“I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.” Angelina Jolie

“The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.” Michael Jackson

“There's high, and there's high, and to get really high - I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going.” George Harrison

“A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.” Paris Hilton

“If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” Vincent Van Gogh

“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” Albert Schweitzer

“I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term.” Donald Trump

“If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'” Donald Trump

“So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.” Donald Trump

“I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.” Donald Trump

“That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.” Donald Trump

“In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.” Desmond Tutu

“I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.” Desmond Tutu

“Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.” Desmond Tutu

“I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.” Andy Warhol

“I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?” Andy Warhol

“Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.” Virginia Woolf

“This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.” Virginia Woolf

“This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.” Virginia Woolf

“When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.” Virginia Woolf