Mean Quotes - Page 167

What does impress both the unsaved and saved alike are those rare individuals who have learned to control their lifestyles and use the abundance they have to help others and spread God's Word. ... Let me propose a radical idea from God's Word: Determine God's best for your life, and be satisfied with it, even if it means moving down in lifestyle.

I tried living as a very nice person, but there’s no need to be nice .. you have to be mean to survive

A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.

Leadership means realizing potential-in yourself and in the people you lead.... The leader and followers cocreate their identities and performance.

All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To be here means you have a right to be here.

I'm not scared, because I know that I need to face the trial. What I mean is, I already expect I will need to pay the price.

At any moment, whatever we are experiencing, only one of two things is ever happening: either we are being with what is, or else we are resisting what is. Being with what is means letting ourselves have and feel our experience, just as it is right now. ... This is where genuine creativity, health, and communication, as well as spiritual power, arise from.

A woman’s beauty lies, not in any exaggeration of the specialized zones, nor in any general harmony that could be worked out by means of the sectio aurea or a similar aesthetic superstition; but in the arabesque of the spine. The curve by which the back modulates into the buttocks. It is here that grace sits and rides a woman’s body.

Though a man may be found in a weak state, that does not at all mean that he has been abandoned by God. On the cross, the Lord Jesus Christ was in trouble, as the world sees things. But when the sinful world considered Him to be completely destroyed, in fact He was victorious over death and hades. The Lord did not promise us positions as victors as a reward for righteousness, but told us, "In the world you will have tribulation - but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world".

All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors (who for the most part are but the great butchers of mankind) farther mislead growing youth, who by this means come to think slaughter the laudable business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

A cloud of incense was rising on high; the people suddenly all bowed low; what could it mean? The truth flashed on him, fearfully yet sweetly; it was the Blessed Sacrament - it was the Lord Incarnate who was on the altar, who had come to visit and bless his people. It was the Great Presence, which makes a Catholic Church different from every other place in the world; which makes it, as no other place can be - holy.

There is only one rule by which to judge if God is near us or is far away - the rule that God's word is giving us today: everyone concerned for the hungry, the naked, the poor, for those who have vanished in police custody, for the tortured, for prisoners, for all flesh that suffers, has God close at hand. We have the ability, we have the means, and we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth. We need only the will.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man

Reversion to the mean is the iron rule of the financial markets.

I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun.

I hope what people learned from watching me is that just because you do things a little differently doesn't mean you can't do them just as well.

Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist.

And, if you believe, in very simple terms, that people mean you well, and will treat you kindly, they will. And, if you believe that the world is against you, then so it will be in your experience. And, if you believe that you will begin to deteriorate at age 22, then so you shall.

When God promises, He's not saying, I'll try. He means, I can and I will.

Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who mean something special to us.

By cool, I don't mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.

People tell me to smile, I tell them the lack of emotion on my face doesn't mean I'm unhappy.