Really Mean Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• 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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• 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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• These enthusiasts often like to hang signs that say "Gone Fishin'" or "Gone Huntin'". But what these slogans really mean is "Gone Killing.

  Marc Bekoff

  Mean, Lakes, Sea

  Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.120, Shambhala Publications

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• Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.

  David Foster Wallace

  Mean, Exercise, Thinking

  "This Is Water". David Foster Wallace's commencement speech at Kenyon College, www.youtube.com. May 21, 2005.

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• I still don't know what it really means to grow up. However, if I happen to meet you, one day in the future, by then, I want to become someone you can be proud to know.

  Makoto Shinkai

  Growing Up, Mean, One Day

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• Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

  Norman Lear

  Life, Happiness, Gratitude

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• Oops, I said on my d-ck. I aint really mean to say on my d-ck. But since we talking about my d-ck, all of you haters say hi to it.

  Lil Wayne

  Hate, Mean, Talking

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• What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do and as all of you do-whether we know it or not, whether we take responsibility for it or not. I hold nothing back because I want to see that light go off. I like to see the children say, 'I never thought of that before.' And I think, 'I've got them!'

  Maya Angelou

  Teacher, Children, Mean

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• Friends can be incredible sometimes, but have you ever had a friend that can be really annoying or really mean to you? Friends shouldn't stab you in the back. Have you ever wondered if your friend has ever said stuff about you to their other friends? It gets pretty intimidating sometimes to think about that. What I'm saying is to find your friends that are real. Don't keep the ones that are fake and are just friends with you for what you have. Be strong. Don't take no for an answer. Never back down. Stand up for what you believe in. Friends are great to have, but just be cautious. (.

  Austin Mahone

  Strong, Real, Believe

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• When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.

  Alice Adams

  Money, Mean, Responsibility

  Alice Adams (2011). “LISTENING TO BILLIE: A Novel”, p.119, Vintage

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• You'll be able to gain insight and reach a conclusion only by applying the powers of mind, intellect, soul, heart, spirit, and imagination. This is what 'looking at something spiritually' really means.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Heart, Mean, Imagination

  Rudolf Steiner (1998). “Bees”, p.92, SteinerBooks

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• Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.

  Jackson Browne

  Mean, Musician, Kind

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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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• What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your bloodstream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling.

  Corey Haim

  Girl, Mean, Kissing

  "Me, Myself and I". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Attitude, War, Mean

  "Suu Kyi gives Nobel speech in Norway, 21 years later". Interview with Christiane Amanpour, edition.cnn.com. June 16, 2012.

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• What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

  Elie Wiesel

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Mean

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.87, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A 'very good friend' is a dangerous category with Indian girls. From here you can either make fast progress or if you play it wrong, you can go down to the lowest category invented by the Indian women ever - rakhi brother. Rakhi brother really means 'you can talk to me, but don't even freaking think about anything else you bore'.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Girl, Brother, Mean

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• That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

  Paul Tournier

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  Paul Tournier (1957). “The Meaning of Persons”

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• Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as you can. Push as far a reach as you can, then go all the way!

  Kay WalkingStick

  Art, Mean, Expression

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• Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Children, Mean

  "Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1956.

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• HOROSCOPE: Today is a good time for making new friends. A good deed may have unforeseen consequences. Don’t upset any druids. You will soon be going on a very strange journey. Your lucky food is small cucumbers. People pointing knives at you are probably up to no good. PS, we really mean it about the druids.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Journey, Knives

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2015). “All the Discworld's a Stage”, p.111, Oberon Books

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• Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Mean, Discipline, Students

  Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson (2011). “The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind”, p.139, Delacorte Press

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• You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of the slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Taken, Mean, Talking

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• The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner.

  Ramana Maharshi

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