5,159 Quotes About Mean

Wikipedia lacks the habit or tradition of respect for expertise. As a community, far from being elitist (which would, in this context, mean excluding the unwashed masses), it is anti-elitist (which, in this context, means that expertise is not accorded any special respect, and snubs and disrespect of expertise is tolerated).

The ultimate quality of your life is not in your resume, but in the minds and hearts of those you mean something to because you gave yourself to them.

Principles don't mean anything until they cost you something.

If ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.

Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.

I wasn't sure if the word boys should mean dim or incomprehensible. I was hovering between the two, with a healthy dose of testosterone-poisoned.

It is an attention-getter. I mean, its hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around.

We should try to learn the nature of [the spirit of revelation]. . . . This is the grand means that the Lord has provided for us, that we may know the light, and not be groveling continually in the dark.

It would mean a lot for us, for him and the national team.