Really Mean Quotes - Page 13

• Black History Month is dedicated to heroes that paved the way for Black people. It's a month that's very imperative because it gives those who lack the knowledge of our heroes a chance to gain insight. It's not just about the month, it's about the years that it took for us to get to this one month and it's beyond placing a value on how much Black History Month really means to me.

  Alana Beard

  Hero, Mean, Years

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• I have come to know that adversity really means the things in life that challenge us and cause us to work with devotion and courage to overcome. I once stood on a street in Trondheim, Norway, looking up at a statue of a Viking. There came to my mind at that time a fable of the Norsemen that when a man won a victory over another, the strength of the conquered went over into his veins. Therefore, in this sense adversity is good, for it produces in us a source of strength as we learn to conquer our weaknesses.

  Alvin R. Dyer

  Life, Mean, Adversity

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• How do you stop longing for what you absolutely know you can't get? Which really means: How do you absolutely know you can't-and won't-get it, not ever? How do you pinch out that wisp of feeble, ruthless hope?

  Leigh Newman

  Mean, Longing, Wisps

  Leigh Newman (2013). “Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home”, p.170, Dial Press

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• The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to offend the rules, which really means that they don't offend the interests of business or the pampered sensibilities of the Aga class. The media, driven by fear and advertising, are hopelessly biased towards the consumer economy and against the biosphere.

  George Monbiot

  Mean, Media, Class

  "Civilisation ends with a shutdown of human concern. Are we there already?" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2007.

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• Managing your time really means managing yourself. If your time is out of control, it means you are out of control.

  Douglas Merrill

  Mean, Time Management, Ifs

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• I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform.

  Judy Biggert

  Meaningful, Thinking, Reform

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• Many say they can't get God's guidance, when they really mean they wish He would show them an easier way.

  Winkie Pratney

  Mean, Wish, Laziness

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• Too many heroes stepping on too many toes, too many yes-men nodding when they really mean no.

  Jethro Tull

  Hero, Mean, Men

  Song: Too Many Too

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• Once after Barefoot In the Park had been playing for about a week I went back to see it, watching the audience, which was just falling over laughing except for one guy sitting the aisle. I was transfixed. I said to myself, there seems to be no way to get to him. No one else would I watch except this one man. My wife joined me about 20 minutes later and asked me how it was going, and I said, terrible. I really meant it. There was no way to get to this man. It destroyed me.

  Simon Neil

  Fall, Men, Laughing

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• Our times might emphasize equality, which we then mistake for the need for everyone to be the same, but what we really mean by this is the equal chance for people to express their differences, to let a thousand flowers bloom.

  Robert Greene

  Mistake, Flower, Mean

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.40, Profile Books

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• Do not waste your time with people who have shown you they really mean no good for you.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Mean, People, Waste

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• I'm formally trained, I don't know what classically trained really means. I've worked with Sanford Meisner. And I've worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

  Brad Dourif

  Mean, Circles, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

  Nancy Garden

  Mean, Helping Someone, Doe

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• Everyone can say 'I Love You' but not everyone really means it, so believe it when you feel it, not when you hear it.

  Greyson Chance

  Believe, Love You, Mean

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• We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'.

  Susan Sarandon

  Mean, People, Advice

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• Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Mean

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• When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language

  John Irving

  Mean, Past, People

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• How it's Done is a richly woven tale of a young woman who discovers what it really means to be an adult. This story, told with honesty and heart, held me in my seat to the very end. I have discovered a new favorite writer in Christine MacLean.

  Han Nolan

  Honesty, Heart, Mean

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• When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a small rush of 'I've made it!' But the next morning, it occurred to me I didn't know what it was, so I called my agent and asked what being a 'New York Times' bestselling author really meant. He informed me that I was now a thousand pound gorilla.

  Lisa Gardner

  Morning, New York, Phones

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• I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.

  Christopher Guest

  Children, Growing Up, London

  "Nowt so queer as folk" by Richard Grant, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2004.

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• I might appear confident and chatty, but I spend most of my time laughing at jokes I don't find funny, saying things I don't really mean - because at the end of the day that's what we're all trying to do: fit in, one way or another, desperately trying to pretend we're all the same.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Mean, Laughing, The End Of The Day

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important. If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Teacher, Mean, Successful

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• My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Friendship, Family

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• Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

  Thomas Sowell

  Heart, Mean, Hands

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• What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

  Antonin Scalia

  Motivational, Mean, Interpretation

  "Antonin Scalia's legacy: Extraordinary writing, and upholding the rule of law" by Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, theweek.com. February 13, 2016.

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