Mean Quotes - Page 6

• It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

  James Rosenquist

  Beautiful, Painting, Simplest

  "Art Space Talk: James Rosenquist". Interview with Brian Sherwin, myartspace-blog.blogspot.ru. April 04, 2008.

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• It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and to whom unlimited energy means unlimited power for war and destruction, there is an ominous cloud in the distance though at present it be no bigger than a man's hand.

  Arthur Eddington

  War, Distance, Men

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

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• True greatness means that, even if you forget what you've done for others, you never forget what others have done for you. It means always doing your utmost to repay debts of gratitude. Such people radiate integrity, depth of character, bigheartedness and charm.

  Josei Toda

  Gratitude, Integrity, Character

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• Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient milieu to which he was adapted for hundreds of thousands of years . In our cities there is no more day or night or heat or cold. But there is overpopulation, thralldom to press and television, total absence of purpose. All men are constrained by means external to them to ends equally external. The further the technical mechanism develops that allows us to escape natural necessity, the more we are subjected to artificial technical necessities.

  Jacques Ellul

  Night, Men, Technology

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• I want to be independent. To meet interesting people. ... I just mean new people with clever things to say. Things I've never heard before. I want to be free. Open to whatever adventure comes along and sweeps me off my feet.

  Kate Morton

  Clever, Independent, Adventure

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Years, Wonderful, Tradition

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• If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means

  Walter Rodney

  Humanity, Revolutionary, Prove

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• Loving your child also means respecting him as a person. Treat him with the same courtesy as would a friend.

  Claudia Jones

  Children, Loving You, Courtesy

  Claudia Jones (1988). “Parents are Teachers, Too: Enriching Your Child's First Six Years”, Williamson Pub

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• I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.

  Park Geun-hye

  Democracy, Doe, Ends

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• Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.

  Adrienne Rich

  Fall, Responsibility, Funny Graduation

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• But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.

  Daniel Harvey Hill

  Soldier, Admiration, Aeroplanes

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

  Jalal Talabani

  Determination, Self, Independence

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• Spending energy to understand the audience and carefully crafting a message that resonates with them means making a commitment of time and discipline to the process.

  Nancy Duarte

  Commitment, Discipline, Marketing

  Nancy Duarte (2013). “Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences”, p.8, John Wiley & Sons

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• By all means, fire the customers who aren't worth the time and the trouble. But understand that the moment you insist the customer is wrong, you've just started the firing process.

  Seth Godin

  Fire, Marketing, Advertising

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• Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.

  Patricia Ireland

  Advice, Rubber, Doe

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• I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

  Agnetha Faltskog

  Appreciate, Approval, Flattery

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think everybody's always attracted to both sexes. I mean, I think that women are very attractive. I've kissed girls, but everybody experiments. It's part of growing up.

  Monica Keena

  Mean Girls, Sex, Growing Up

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• What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.

  David F. Houston

  Loss, Men, Average

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• Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene.

  James Lipton

  Live In The Moment, Splits, Able

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• It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that is so, it means that the complete fossil legacy of all the Americans alive today - that's 270 million people with 206 bones each - will only be about 50 bones, one-quarter of a complete skeleton. That's not to say, of course, that any of these bones will ever actually be found.

  Bill Bryson

  Science, Skeletons, People

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• For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.

  Marie de France

  Love, Loyalty, Matter

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing

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• Sometimes the things we want most are the hardest to get. That means you need to be even more determined to succeed. That's what it takes to be a winner. You have to want it bad enough to stick with it no matter how tough things get.

  Chuck Norris

  Art, Determined To Succeed, Matter

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• God does not have to come and tell me what I must do for Him; He brings me into a relationship with Himself where I hear His call and understand what He wants me to do, and I do it out of sheer love to Him... When people say they have had a call to foreign service, or to any particular sphere of work, they mean that their relationship to God has enabled them to realize what they can do for God.

  Oswald J. Smith

  People, Missionary, Doe

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• But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.

  William Cowper

  Ease, Modesty, Remember

  William Cowper, John William Cunningham (1835). “The works ¬of William Cowper: Poems : with an essay on the genius and poetry of Cowper”, p.158

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• But by no manner of means are women to be allotted to uncover and exhibit any part of their person, lest both fall,-the men by being excited to look, they by drawing on themselves the eyes of the men.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Fall, Eye, Men

  Clement of Alexandria (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Clement of Alexandria (Annotated Edition)”, p.167, Jazzybee Verlag

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