Mean Quotes

As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.

Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.

The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.

. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free.

We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.