5,159 Quotes About Mean

Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be." Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.

The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

First the stalk - then the roots. First the need - then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus -then the elements needed for its growth.

It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.

People throw the word love around like confetti when they actually mean affection.

I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean it.

The older you get, the more power you have with language as a writer, which means that you have to be extra responsible for what you say, whether it's in print or in front of a microphone, because those words can go out and kill or go out and plant seeds for peace.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.