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Mean To Be Quotes

Little brother, I don't mean to be a downer, but we're talking about War here. There's no way to mitigate damages. He won't let us. I was there with twenty-five Chthonians to fight him and he spanked our hides like we were Lemurian slave women. Two of us had our hearts ripped out and shoved down our throats while he laughed, then he licked the blood clean from his fingers and came at the rest of us. (Savitar)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right.
- Glenn Beck

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.
- Ernest Becker

I don't mean to be funny.
- Yogi Berra

Because I'm dangerous. I don't mean to be but I am. I'm dangerous to be around, dangerous to everybody. I cause harm. I might even harm you. And I couldn't bear that.
- Tim Bowler

What did it mean to be called "lord"? I'll assume you've never had the honor, since I doubt any of you happen to be British royalty. (And, if by chance you are, then let me say, "Hello, Your Majesty! Welcome to my stupid book. Can I borrow some cash?")
- Brandon Sanderson

Tall, aren't you?" she said.
"I didn't mean to be."
Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.
- Raymond Chandler

Being brave in front of faith does not mean to be humble before death.
- Sorin Cerin

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.
- Adrienne Clarkson

I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad breath, Lieutenant. I can smell it from here. It must offend a lot of people. That's the truth. But how many people have told you that? Instead, they either lie or try to avoid your company.
- Robert Cormier

He lives out in Orchard Park. I mean, to be able to sit on the bench so patiently, for whatever part, and to be able to get up and do something, with such heroic competencies would be great.
- Robert Creeley

Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.
- Donna Woolfolk Cross

His stillness was commanding. I felt myself getting whiter by the second. What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in? I was scared to the marrow. I was cold and hot, dry and wet, myself and someone else. The fist clenched in my chest. I went to the staircase and sat on the top step, looking into my hands. So much remained. Every word and thing a beadwork of bright creation.
- Don Delillo

But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility of all people of all times. Which implies: The highest morality consists in being useless.
- Milan Kundera

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.
- Delia Ephron

I don't mean to be rude'- always a precursor to rudeness of the most offensive sort
- Julian Fellowes

Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart
- Lady Gaga

I absolutely love television, and I don't mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the movie industry, I get more power and more money doing television, so why on earth would I do a film?
- Steven Moffat

I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.
- John Hawkes

I don't mean to be rude" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable.
"Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely.
- J K Rowling

When I grow up I mean to be
A Lion large and fierce to see.
I'll mew so loud that Cook in fright
Will give me all the cream in sight.
And anyone who dares to say
'Poor Puss' to me will rue the day.
Then having swallowed him I'll creep
Into the Guest Room Bed to sleep.
- Oliver Herford

I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.
- Jewel

'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
- Ben Jonson

What does it mean to be the best? It means you have to be better than the number two guy. But what gratification is there in that? He's a loserthat's why he's number two.
- Jarod Kintz

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?
- Leon Kass

Being crasy doesn't mean to be broken...It is you and me amplified, Girl, Interrupted
- Susanna Kaysen

To be honest, going out with Ed after Josh is like moving on to Duchy Originals super-tasty seeded loaf after plastic white bread. (I don't mean to be rude about Josh. And I didn't realize it at the time. But it is. He is. Plastic white bread.)
- Sophie Kinsella

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be "correct" or "true"? Merely vague concepts... Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?
- Masashi Kishimoto

To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.
- Fran Lebowitz

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.
- Tea Leoni

I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.
- Courtney Love

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
- James Madison

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters
- Daniel Webster

I don't mean to be bashful, but I was.
- Willie Mays

I don't mean to be accident prone, but my excuse is if you really want to get somewhere you have to go full gas.
- Heather Mills

What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.
- Ben Nelson

Family is just accident, Jessie. It's nothing personal, hon. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.
- Marsha Norman

What does it mean to be true to the faith? That word true implies commitment, integrity, endurance, and courage.
- Dallin H Oaks

What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.
- Joyce Carol Oates

I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.
- Henry Rollins

Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be.
- Jason Schwartzman

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