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Quotes About Mean

Everybody's got a mean side. Just don't feed it till it grows.
~ Denis Johnson
The King's daughters are THE WORST. I only want to hang out with the King's kitchen staff, because his internet daughters are mean as the Devil's hell.
~ Jen Hatmaker
Artemis sighed dramatically. "Well, if we have to go, at least we'll go on full stomachs." This was an unusually cavalier comment to make with seconds to live, even for a human. "Full stomachs?" "Yes," said Artemis. "Mulch took something else from your shuttle." He picked up a small chocolate-covered ball and wiggled it before the screen. "My truffles?" gasped Opal. "You took them. That's just mean.
~ Eoin Colfer
All mass movements deprecate the present by depicting it as a mean preliminary to a glorious future; a mere doormat on the threshold of the millennium.
~ Eric Hoffer
Walk it slowwhere you gowalk it slow…We in the worldPoor as dirtDon't get some rhythmSomebody'll get hurtthe world is blackthe world is greenthe world is red, yellow, brownthe world is mean
~ Amiri Baraka
People who mean harm have it over the rest of us. They always win. And the only thing to do is to keep away from them.
~ Amy Witting
I did not mean to set your back up, but it is hard to resist when you look so very
~ Andrea Pickens
The only time that I really go on Twitter is to promote, because what sucks is there's some weird trolling going around. Even if you are well-intentioned, there's some mean people behind a keyboard.
~ Michael Pena
We need to make sure that we have an honest, honest conversation and that we engage honest practices around how racism operates in this country. It's not just about people being mean to each other.
~ Alicia Garza
At the end of the day, the Internet is full of mean people. Who are these people in their everyday life? I pray for them.
~ Ayesha Curry
Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.
~ Hesiod
I never really got any attention until I was on MTV. I became a household name because I was on every day from 3-4 P.M. I wasn't prepared for it - how mean they can be in the press.
~ Simon Rex
I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.
~ Major Owens
My first teacher... was extremely strict, mean, and deeply religious.
~ Tobias Forge
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
~ Rick Atkinson
No matter how careful you are, you can end up pregnant. That's what sex is designed to do, after all. So, never sleep with someone who's mean or stupid, and ugly is a judgment call, because all three may breed true.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Mean is not crazy, it is merely mean.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
And the boss isn't . . ." He waggled his hands back and forth. "Ya know, mean." I nodded. I did know. I could bitch and complain about Jean-Claude all I wanted, but compared to most Masters of the City, he was a pussycat. A big, dangerous, carnivorous pussycat, but still, it was an improvement.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.
~ Amanda Plummer
We are humiliated by what is powerful and mean, but awed by what is powerful and noble.
~ Alain de Botton
It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.
~ Alan Moore
Badgering a colleague doesn't come from a fit of pique, it comes from an organic quality of the soul. And a mean soul will inevitably be reflected in music. Wagner is a convincing example of that, but far from the only one.
~ Dmitri Shostakovich
The coefficient of variation is a measure of variability that is computed as the ratio between the standard deviation and the mean of a probability distribution. You can think of it as a general measure of the relative breadth of a probability distribution. Since the square of the standard deviation is the variance of a distribution, this means that queues vary linearly with variance, a point worth remembering.
~ Donald G. Reinertsen
They're funny people," Thomas Hudson said. "They're all brave and some of them are so damned admirable. Then they have mean ones like this.
~ Ernest Hemingway