Quotes and Sayings About Mean
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It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.
-- Adrian Cronauer -
Seafood was always my favorite food. I mean, fried lobster? Come on. Once I found out shrimp, scallops and lobster were my allergic triggers, I had to change my diet.
-- Adrian Peterson -
My dad means a lot to me. He's the one who put a football in my hands.
-- Adrian Peterson -
God does business with those who mean business.
-- Adrian Rogers -
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There are certain functions that the family performs. In the first place the family provides society with an orderly means of reproduction, while at the same time the norms of marriage control the potentially disruptive forces of sexuality. Second, the family provides physical and economic support for the child during the early years of dependence. The child receives its primary socialization in the family, learning the essential ideas and values required for adult life.
-- Adrian Wilson -
If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her! But then, if she wants to, what can I do? But definitely not until she's 18 years old. You know, every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself.
-- Adriana Lima -
Every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself.
-- Adriana Lima -
Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.
-- Adriana TrigianiSource : Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Shoemaker's Wife”, p.390, Simon and Schuster
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Let life unfold, say what you mean. You can’t always think about what you’ve lost, or what you don’t have, or what you didn’t get. Because when you do that, you’re missing out on the now. You can’t know if you’ll be here tomorrow or a year from now.
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Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues. Like, fear and the way fear controls us. How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear. They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things. Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it's unfortunate.
-- Adrien BrodySource : Roundtable interview, www.ign.com. July 30, 2004.
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All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.
-- Adrien-Marie Legendre -
When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.
-- Adrienne Barbeau -
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To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.
-- Adrienne Clarkson -
I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.
-- Adrienne Rich -
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.
-- Adrienne Rich -
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
-- Adrienne Rich -
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For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
-- Adrienne Rich -
Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
-- Adrienne Rich -
What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope?-- You yourself must change it.
-- Adrienne Rich -
Christian love means two things at once: to recognize the Lord in one's neighbor and to recognize one's neighbor in the Lord.
-- Adrienne von SpeyrSource : Adrienne von Speyr, Adrian Walker (2008). “Lumina and New Lumina”, p.15, Ignatius Press
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Her [Mary's] motherhood extends beyond view. In the will of the Son, she becomes at once mother and maid: sheltering him, but sheltered in him, forming him, but formed by him ... When she pronounces the words: 'Be it done to me according to thy word', the Mother conceives the mystery from the Trinity, in order to give it to the Son. The Son gives the word back to the Trinity by giving everything he has back to the Father in the Spirit. Then, after the Father has received it again, it is distributed to mankind by means of that extravagant expansioning-the Eucharist and the Holy Spirit.
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If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality, or worse still, as if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
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When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.
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In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true. This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow. It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one's deepest integrity.
-- Adyashanti -
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Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
-- Adyashanti -
I love laugh lines. It means you've had a good life.
-- Aerin Lauder -
The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
-- Aesop -
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
-- Aesop -
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Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty (or mean) interests and the search of perishable things, and with that ("et avec cela", Fr.) they pretend to perpetuate for all eternity their self ("moi", Fr.) so hardly worthy ("digne", Fr.) of it.
-- African SpirSource : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 51), 1937.
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To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit.
-- African Spir