Mean Quotes - Page 19

• There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Important, Gone, Serious

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• Don't convince yourself you're over, don't convince yourself you're done, just because the things around you seem heavy, doesn't mean you can't get off this ground.

  Dave Matthews

  Life, Done, Heavy

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• Say what you mean, be who you are, and hope for the best.

  Justin Rogers

  Life, Be Who You Are, Hoping For The Best

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• Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.

  Roger Wicker

  Agency, Law, Working Together

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• Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.

  Clayton Christensen

  Children, Men, Grandparent

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• Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Squirrels, Laughing, Example

  Nâzım Hikmet, Mutlu Konuk Blasing (1994). “Poems of Nazim Hikmet”

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• A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Political, Phases, Serious

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• If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.

  Victor Garber

  Silly, Aliases, Know How

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?

  Bob Woodward

  Stupid, Silly, People

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• Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.

  Nell Newman

  Generous Spirit, Mindfulness, Attention

  Nell Newman (2003). “The Newman's Own Organics Guide to a Good Life: Simple Measures That Benefit You and the Place You Live”, Villard Books

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• If a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted in the reality of the old world view; as a lunatic or alienated artist, his own neurotic traits can become magnified as they tremble with the new energy pouring in from the universal source.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Artist, Reality, Views

  William Irwin Thompson (1990). “At the Edge of History”, SteinerBooks

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• There is no promise of love and light or visions of any kind - no angels, no devils. Nothing happens: it is absolutely boring. Sometimes you feel silly. One often asks the question, "Who is kidding whom? Am I on to something or not?" You are not on to something. Traveling the path means you get off everything, there is no place to perch. Sit and feel your breath, be with it.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Silly, Angel, Light

  Chogyam Trungpa (2002). “The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

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• Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.

  Brené Brown

  Feelings, Mindfulness, Needs

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• That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, People, Joy

  "Living, Loving & Learning".

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• He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a method of experimental psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for truth.

  Maria Montessori

  Psychology, Wish, Nihilism

  Maria Montessori (2012). “The Montessori Method”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.

  Howard Fineman

  Party, Eye, Media

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• To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Time, Differences, Dancing

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• In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we're always on the bike and it's quite difficult.

  Valentino Rossi

  Race, Too Much, Limits

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it.

  Bob Inglis

  Medicare, Testing, Bankruptcy

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• I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean?

  Roone Arledge

  Mean Girls, Thinking, Doe

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• I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

  Hans Blix

  War, Autumn, Thinking

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• I know that producing will ultimately mean more longevity in the business, so when I'm tired of everything else and want to be behind the cameras, I know that I can produce.

  Maria Menounos

  Tired, Cameras, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

  Dora Russell

  Government, Class, Citizens

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• Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

  Artie Lange

  Sad, Vegas, Tragedy

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• The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

  Barbara Boxer

  Letting Go, Essence, People

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