Quotes About Mean

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

Governments have a favorite phrase: "lean and mean." But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests.

History teaches that when valuations are extreme, "mean reversion," a move towards historical norms, is likely. Once value stocks turn, the recovery can be fast and intense.

I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are mean.

The middle course is the best.

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.

Miss Louella says, 'Love whoever God sets down in front of you. Even the mean ones, 'cause they can sho use it.

It was always nice to get one over on Celia, but that still wasn't enough for me to wear sequins and a push-up bra. It was the fact that RJ had been so mean to Ally that she still held a grudge that had me wavering. I hated mean. Deadly, I could appreciate, but mean was just cowardly.

You were mean and worried then and you're mean and worried now. The expression on your face hasn't changed one bit. It's a dangerous man who reacts more or less in the same way to good news or bad news.

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? Isn't it a sufficient condemnation of society to find one's self accepting such phraseology?

But the landlady is a fat, ugly, mean, stupid, unwashed, misanthropic, cheap, drunken bag of garbage. And you may have noticed that I very seldom use profanity, so I can't describe her as well as I might.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

Maybe Cinderella was the bad guy in the story, and her stepsisters were just nerdy girls who wanted a boyfriend. How politically correct was it, really, to make the villains ugly? And how realistic? In my experience, it was usually the pretty people who were mean to the ugly ones, not the other way.

Politics do not necessarily mean party politics, though in this country, at this moment, the one runs dangerously near to implying the other.

The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.

I don't believe in anti-heroes. Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.

Don't think I'm always nice. I know that's how I've been cast... If they want me to be mean, I can step up to the plate more easily than I would like to admit, as my children will tell you.

That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.

Being stupid and compassionate are not conflicts. Being mean and being funny and having something to say are not a conflict.

Making comedies, you end up knowing people that you would swear would be the funnest people ever in the whole world. And they're not. They're really mean and depressed and hideous people.

You don't want to make performances; you want to make people. When a project knows, 'Okay, my bad guys need to be a little sympathetic, and my good guys need to have a bit of a mean streak,' you're off to a good start.

Ye should have killed me, watched the last mean sigh Sneak through my nostril like a

I always felt there was something wrong with me, even when I was a child, a discomfort with my own being. I had an urge to be mean to people. I was too shy to do it properly but now I know the reasons for the faults in my character. I'm the devil.

Her own life had been a haze of privilege, narcissism, and impossibly extended adolescence, filled with mean, sardonic hipness and self-protection. Now she has been called.