Mean Quotes - Page 27

• A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

  Jakob Dylan

  Wisdom, Guilty Conscience, Guilty

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• I came to realize that visualizing, projecting yourself into a successful situation, is the most powerful means there is of achieving personal goals.

  Leonard Lauder

  Life, Motivation, Powerful

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• In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pride, Men, Oratory

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• In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.

  Milan Kundera

  Beauty, Beautiful, Islands

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• Even if a bodhisattva investigates the highest wisdom, one is not a proper bodhisattva unless one applies skillful means for the benefit of other sentient beings.

  Je Tsongkhapa

  Animal, Benefits, Bodhisattva

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• If that means going onto their farms, releasing their animals and burning the place to the ground, that's morally justifiable, in our opinion...There were always innocent people who got hurt somewhere along the way but it was important that those who oppressed one group of people be stopped, and we don't see the animal liberation struggle being substantially different from these other struggles.... A sustained campaign against a particular industry or a particular organization has the potential to be quite effective.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Hurt, Struggle, Animal

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• He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.

  Andrew Marvell

  Eye, Memorable, Trying

  "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" l. 57 (written 1650)

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• Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.

  Debi Thomas

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

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• Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there’s a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration.

  Jane Mayer

  Thinking, Design, Support

  "The Gitmo Experiment: How Methods Developed by the U.S. Military For Withstanding Torture are Being Used Against Detainees at Guantanamo Bay". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 6, 2005.

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• I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support.

  Jane Mayer

  Running, Military, People

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• I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.

  John Perry Barlow

  Niece, Looks, Republican

  "John Perry Barlow: Wyoming's Estimated Prophet". Interview with Aaron Davis, July 28, 2005.

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• It’s an old Orc axe, which means he’s been in battle. Orcs have killed members of his family, and he’s trying to find the Orc that did it to him so that he can give it back. But as the journey goes on, Bifur actually becomes more lucid. He becomes a bit more focused, and the journey is a bit healing for him.

  William Kircher

  Healing, Journey, Giving

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• Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Powerful, Military, War

  "New world disorder". www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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• To be a hero means being the author of your own myth.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Hero, Myth

  Alberto Villoldo (2010). “The Four Insights: Wisdom, Power, and Grace of the Earthkeepers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.59, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I mean the opposite of what I say./You've got it now? No, it's the other way.

  Bruce Bennett

  Opposites, Way

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• In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.

  William Whewell

  Art, Truth Is, Ends

  William Whewell (1840). “Aphorisms Concerning Ideas, Science & the Language of Science”, p.25

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• As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what we want the world to mean.

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Vocabulary, Looks

  Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

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• To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Art, Men

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• To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader; so that in contact with the chaos of ordinary life certain free and flowing outlines emerge, like the forms of some classic picture, endowing both people and things with a grandeur beyond what is visible to the superficial glance.

  John Cowper Powys

  Book, People, Imagination

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• Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps, romance only the fiction by means of which the tender-minded negotiate their lust?

  Trevanian

  Passion, Men, Self

  Trevanian (2005). “The Summer of Katya: A Novel”, p.9, Crown

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• Curiosity’s primal. Our senses scan our surroundings, alerting us most urgently about sudden change. Useful, that. Change can mean opportunity. It can mean danger. Finding lunch or being lunch. We’re hard-wired to notice the unexpected, then take action.

  Julie Czerneda

  Opportunity, Lunch, Curiosity

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• To play for Barcelona, means to have an opportunity for a brilliant career. But to reach the top of it, you have to play for Real Madrid.

  Luis Figo

  Real, Opportunity, Play

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• You are right. I have no idea, and it is none of my business, and I was taught to obey my parents. But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly.
  Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child forever, whether that means not touching a spindle or . . . or . . .

  Alex Flinn

  Children, Ideas, Parent

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• You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.

  A. R. Rahman

  Passion, Being The Best, Possessiveness

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• When God promises, He's not saying, I'll try. He means, I can and I will.

  James MacDonald

  Promise, Trying, I Can

  James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.55, Moody Publishers

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