Best mean & trying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.”

“The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.”

Thinking Trying Mean Has Beens Reality Circumstances Painful Spending Ministers Things To Do Right Thing Prime Prime Minister Private Sector Borrowing Chunks Bail

Author:John Redwood

“In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.”

Thinking Writing Trying Mean Facts Novel Who You Are About Yourself Autobiography Concealed One Deep

Author:Robert Penn Warren

“There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.”

Trying Mean Littles Found Righteous Couches Indignation Righteous Indignation

Author:Al Franken

“I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perfect day, nothin' standin' in my way... Don't you try to rain on my perfect day.' It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.”

Way Feels Trying Mean Feelings Kids School Used Left Perfect Teacher High School Rain My Way Defeated Overwhelmed Homework Left Out Perfect Days Feeling Down Cool Kid Feeling Overwhelmed

Author:Kara Lindsay

“The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.”

Trying Mean Stuff Rooms Minutes Bombs Hotel Site Nests Hotel Rooms

Author:Carey Mulligan

“For me, its like go ahead and eat. Live your life. I mean, I've just seen so much death, you know, as of late, being in my 40s, of people getting sick or, you know, whatever, that I just feel like, you know what? You never know with life. Eat. Enjoy yourself. Just try to be healthy and, you know, and watch it.”

People Knows Feels Trying Mean Enjoy Watches Like You Healthy Late Sick Live Your Life Enjoy Yourself

Author:Debi Mazar

“I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my fun, I've got to have my fling, Some folks say I'm blowing my top Talk don't mean a thing.”

Trying Mean Fun Please Let Me Blame Folks Good Times Having A Good Time Knocking Fling Blame Me Don't Blame Me

Author:Alberta Hunter

“I mean, Robert Pattinson. No, I’m kidding, I shouldn’t say that. He’s actually really nice. My neighbour works with him and said he was a great guy. I don’t know to be honest, I don’t really model myself after anybody. You’re always just trying to create opportunities and be ready when those opportunities present themselves. I can’t look at anybody and think ‘I want to be Damian Lewis’ – I’d be setting myself up for failure.”

Thinking Knows Want Trying Looks Mean Said I Can Guy Opportunity Nice Honest Ready Models Setting Settings Being Honest Neighbour Really Nice Great Guy

Author:Diego Klattenhoff

“I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. That’s the only way to move forward.”

“I love it when characters surprise you, just like real people. When I write a scene I just try to make the characters behave in a way that feels natural to them. Sometimes that means they make a left turn and do something unexpected. Those are always the best scenes in my opinion.”

People Way Feels Writing Trying Mean Real Sometimes Character Turns Left Natural Opinion Scene Surprise Behave Unexpected Something Unexpected

Author:Brad Falchuk

“My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.”

Trying Mean Stills Real Done Eye Song Behinds Focus Band Thoughtful

Author:Ian MacKaye

“How do they find out with the experiments?''...one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try different ways to make it better until they find one that works.''But isn't that unkind to the animal?''Well, I suppose it is...but I mean, there isn't a dad anywhere who would hesitate, is there, if he knew it was going to make [his child] better? It's changed the whole world during the last hundred years, and that's no exaggeration.”

Ifs World Way Trying Years Wells Mean Children Different Whole Lasts Animal Changed Dad Hundred Ill Experiments Whole World One Way Different Ways Exaggeration Unkind

Author:Richard Adams

“You're not just trying to do something marginally, incrementally better. You're doing something that is a fundamental paradigm shift, that will have exponential impact. That means it's harder to do, but ultimately, if it's successful, the impact it has is far greater.”

Ifs Trying Mean Successful Greater Harder Fundamentals Impact Paradigm Paradigm Shift

Author:Steve Case

“It's what everyone is after, I mean they want success and when they get it it's an incredible pressure but what you have to do is try to keep the big picture in view.”

Want Trying Mean Bigs Views Pressure Incredibles Big Picture

Author:Gerry Beckley

“The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn't mean being sugary.”

People World Trying Mean War Today Political Bits Violence World Today Political Systems Obscenity

Author:Rouben Mamoulian

“Upon graduation, go out into the world and try to find yourself. What do I mean by that? Read Socrates, no. Get a job? Not yet. Go out and do some crazy stuff. Don't hurt anybody including yourself, but take some risks. Travel a little bit. Make big mistakes that you have to apologize for. Do stuff that will make you relatable to the world. And whatever jobs you settle into, you will be better at it, for it.”

World Trying Mean Littles Bigs Jobs Stuff Bits Hurt Mistake Risk Crazy Little Bit Including Settling Finding Yourself Apologizing Relatable Big Mistake

Author:Megyn Kelly

“The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.”

Trying Mean Progress Conditions Universal Experiments

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story.”

Trying Heart Mean Stories Lying Communication Communicate

Author:Katherine Paterson

“And what do I mean by the word 'perfection'? That I shall not try to explain but only say, 'Perfection makes me laugh.' Not cynically, I hasten to add, 'With joy.”

Trying Mean Joy Laughing Perfection Add Make Me Laugh

Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.”

Ifs Knows Needs Trying Mean Reality

Author:Alan Watts

“Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the time... If you are trying to stop those situations, you are looking for external means of liberating yourself, another answer. But if we are able to look into the basic situation, then chaos is the inspiration, confusion is the inspiration.”

Ifs Trying Looks Kind Mean Inspiration Able Beautiful Answers Situation Approach Chaos Confusion All Kinds Developing Enlightened Liberating Very Beautiful

Book:The Pocket Chögyam Trungpa

Source: The Pocket Chögyam Trungpa

“I can talk about humility, but I'm not humble. I mean, if you say, I'm humble, you've just contradicted yourself. But I'm trying to be, man, I'm trying so hard.”

Ifs Men Trying Mean I Can Hard Humility Humble Trying So Hard

Author:Mike Tyson

“A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.”

“The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is the choice of impressions that the light in the universe furnishes to my consciousness as an artisan which I try, by imposing an Order, and Art, an appropriate representative life, to organize.”

Trying Mean Art Light Spirit Order Choices Universe Speak Consciousness Harmony Mathematics Impression Bother Appropriate Representatives Organize Imposing Artisans

Author:Robert Delaunay

“Please don't drive drunk, okay? Seriously... But by all means, walk drunk. That looks hilarious. Everyone loves to watch someone act like they are trying to make it to safety during a hurricane.”

Trying Looks Mean Walks Watches Please Okay Safety Drunk One Love Hurricanes Drunkenness

Author:Amy Poehler

“As regards my means of expression, I try my hardest to achieve the maximum of clarity, power, and plastic aggressiveness; a physical sensation to begin with, followed up by an impact on the psyche.”

Trying Mean Achieve Expression Regard Impact Hardest Clarity Sensations Plastic Maximum Aggressiveness

Author:Joan Miro

“Work - get paid; don't work - don't get paid. Everybody is on commission, .. Try not coming to work for six weeks. Work gets paid; don't work, don't get paid. When they earn those dollars, and when you're 4, and you clean up your room, it really means mom cleaned up the room and you did two toys. When you're 14, it means you cleaned up your room. But still, we got the money caused by work, and then, we have teachable moments on how to handle the money they earn.”

Trying Mean Stills Two Moments Rooms Week Mom Six Paid Dollars Clean Handle Toys Really Mean Cleanliness Your Room Teachable Teachable Moments

Author:Dave Ramsey

“If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.”

Ifs Men Trying Mean Doe Matter Successful Creatures Ideals Toughness

Book:In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

“I mean, some people say, 'Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.' And, you know, I think it wouldn't be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Life Trying Mean Enough Whole Would Be Running Jobs Party Trouble Team Capable Apples Executives Good Enough Bus Successors

Author:Steve Jobs

“Qualityless simply means there is no way to discuss it. There is no way to pin it down. It could be anything at any given moment since infinity is not bound even by itself, nor the words that human beings choose to try and talk around it.”

Way Trying Humans Mean Moments Given Human Beings Bounds Infinity Nothingness Pins

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unkindness to anything means an injustice to that thing. If I am unkind to you I do you an injustice, or wrong you in some way. On the other hand, if I try to assist you in every way that I can to make a better citizen and in every way to do my very best for you, I am kind to you. The above principles apply with equal force to the soil. The farmer whose soil produces less every year, is unkind to it in some way; that is, he is not doing by it what he should; he is robbing it of some substance it must have, and he becomes, therefore, a soil robber rather than a progressive farmer.”

Ifs Way Should Trying Years Kind Mean I Can Hands Force Principles Land Produce Citizens Equal Injustice Substance Soil Progressive Farmers Unkind Robbers Robbing Unkindness

Author:George Washington Carver

“I've done roles before where I've wanted to be buff and sort of fit or whatever. And I like to try and be a little bit fit because there's usually one scene in a movie where you've got to run, which means you've got to run for about five hours nonstop. So, for me, it's just worthwhile being fit because doing a movie can be kind of grueling for six, seven, eight weeks. Or 12 weeks.”

Trying Kind Mean Littles Done Running Wanted Bits Hours Roles Five Week Fit Scene Six Little Bit Seven Eight Be Kind Worthwhile

Author:Guy Pearce

“To be a Baha'i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.”

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Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“There are certain times when you can maybe intimidate certain people to force them to make a mistake. There are other people you know that you've got to make a clean pass. I try to make clean passes. That's something that I've been doing since I was 7 years old and that's the way I like to do it. It doesn't mean I always do it that way, but that's the way I prefer to do it.”

People Knows Way Trying Years Mean Certain Force Mistake Clean Intimidating Cleanliness

Author:Jeff Gordon

“A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try.”

Trying Mean Doe Next Unworthy

Author:Leonard Mlodinow

“I didn't invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella. That’s one of my favorite lines of all time. It’s from a movie called Almost Famous. I think what it means is that life is going to throw all kinds of stuff at you, good and bad. But all you can do is get out there and try to stay dry.”

Thinking Men Trying Kind Mean Life Is Stuff Can Do Lines My Favorite All Kinds All Time Dry Good And Bad Rainy Umbrella Rainy Day

Author:Valerie Thomas

“I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?”

Knows Giving Trying Mean Littles Would Be Ability Periods Meetings Making Money Confused Confusing Erode

Author:Bill Gates

“I mean, the notion that we must love everything in this country or get out and go someplace else is ridiculous. I mean, if you -- the best thing a patriotic American can do is to look and be critical and find out what's wrong and try to make it better. That's what a patriotic American does.”

Ifs Trying Looks Mean Doe Country Can Do Notion Critical Ridiculous Best Things Patriotic American Patriotic

Author:Andy Rooney

“I try to tell people that just because you're buff and cut doesn't mean you're healthy.”

People Trying Mean Cutting Healthy

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“As a parent you walk around trying to be perfect, but you don't have to be perfect. That's the key. You just have to be faithful, and when I say faithful I mean you have to give your all.”

Giving Trying Mean Parent Walks Perfect Keys Faithful Being Faithful Trying To Be Perfect

Author:Terry Crews

“I'm trying to do something that is real. What I mean is this; my sense of being in the world starts with a physical relationship with my surroundings, their weight, texture, density, transparency, and so forth.”

World Trying Mean Real Reality Weight Surroundings Transparency Texture Density

Author:Andrew Forge

“I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.”

People Knows Trying Mind Mean Fantasy Things To Do Frustrating Frustrating Things

Author:Sydney Pollack

“Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Also, it began through the process of seeing, and feeling, and hearing, and smelling, and touching, and then remembering--I mean remembering in words--what these perceptual experiences were like, while trying to describe the endless invisible fears and desires of our inner lives.”

Trying Mean Art Feelings Earth Remember Desire Poetry Process Seeing Fine Originals Ancient Hearing Endless Invisible Wilderness Poetry Is Touching Inner Life Fine Arts Ancient Art

Book:A Poetry Handbook

Source: A Poetry Handbook

“Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians. And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population. But oh, how they try.”

Want Trying Mean Successful Population Comedian Being Successful Portions Elites Elitism Jester

Author:Dick Cavett

“How many of you guys, in your own experience with women, have learned that "no" means "yes" if you know how to spot it? Let me tell you something. In this modern world, that is simply not tolerated. People aren't even gonna try to understand that one. I mean, it used to be said it was a cliche. It used to be part of the advice young boys were given.”

People Ifs Knows World Trying Mean Said Young Used Guy Given Boys Know How Modern Advice Let Me Used To Be Spots Modern World

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.”

Writing Trying Years Firsts Looks Mean Long I Can Remember Interest Lines Produce Favors Merit Fifteen Fifteen Years

Author:Kingsley Amis

“I read a Bruce Lee quote that shifted how I'm trying to live my life right now. He said, "Some targets are only meant to be aimed at." Right? And I took that to mean a shift for myself from goal orientation to path orientation.”

Trying Mean Said Goal Path Right Now Target Meant To Be Living My Life Orientation

Author:Will Smith

“Religions are institutions that push you up the mountain and then they have their fantasies about the spirit. I mean they try to make God like the human psyche and it's wrong. I mean it's a projection of the mind, and you can use it to get a start and then you must leave it behind.”

Trying Mind Humans Mean Use Spirit Behinds Fantasy Mountain Institutions Projection Human Psyche

Author:Ram Dass

“You have always been deciding the truth of your life. It is how you decide to feel about it. There is no need to try to work out what something means. You decide what it means.”

Needs Feels Trying Mean Work Out

Author:Melanie

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