Mean Quotes - Page 34

• A trap screenwriters can fall into is making scripts that are good reads, which doesn't necessarily mean it will make a good film.

  Peter Straughan

  Fall, Good Reads, Scripts

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• Just because something is a standard doesn’t mean it is the right choice for every application. Like XML, for example.

  Douglas Crockford

  Choices, Example, Standards

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• Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.

  Inga Muscio

  Abuse, Violence, Retard

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• How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like getting kissed makes you kissable, like feeling warm makes you coffee, like liking movies makes you a director. How utterly incorrect to think it any other way, a box of crap is treasures, a boy smiling means it, a gentle moment is a life improved.

  Daniel Handler

  Beautiful, Coffee, Boys

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.196, Egmont UK

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• But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

  Nancy Garden

  Helping Someone, Doe, Immorality

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• But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question back on the audience, and here’s the definition we all came up with: hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

  Derrick Jensen

  Spring, Agency, Definitions

  Derrick Jensen (2011). “Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization”, p.295, Seven Stories Press

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• Information doesn't mean a thing to people without inspiration.

  Bernie Siegel

  Inspiration, People, Information

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• As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Stupid, Simple, Doe

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• It means that Tao doesn't force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Needs, Done, Way

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• God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. That’s a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and writing songs that bear truth that outlasts the songs themselves. If I did this in hopes of thunderous applause and piles of cash, I would have quit years ago. But there are moments on the stage when I sense something magical, a connection with the band and the audience, when our stories intersect and suddenly we’re wading in an ancient river. Suddenly the song is secondary to the greater story being told through each of us.

  Andrew Peterson

  Song, Writing, Light

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• The violence in the Executioner books is merely stage-dressing for dramatizing the commitment and dedication Bolan has to his ideals and the lengths to which he will go to honor them. We can learn this message of love and commitment and carry it into our own lives without the violence and bloodshed, and of course it is this wish that fuels the writing. I do not want my readers to pick up a gun and follow Bolan's example; I want them to be stirred by his commitment and to find ways to meet the same challenges without resort to violent means.

  Don Pendleton

  Book, Writing, Commitment

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• One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state . . . Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Democracies Have, Law, Justice

  "The Institutes of Biblical Law" by R.J. Rushdoony, (p. 100), 1973.

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• This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Reflection, Mind, Doe

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• No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man is mind; it's not a thing, it's a quality, and minds aren't all the same value; they're better or worse, and the better they are, the more they mean.

  John Wyndham

  Men, Soul, Mind

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• Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Choices, Fine

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• The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.

  Sebastian Fitzek

  Sometimes, Ends, Results

  Sebastian Fitzek (2011). “Splinter: A gripping, chilling psychological thriller”, p.135, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• One nice thing about my momma is, she never gets on you for what you are not doing. I mean, she never looks away from the things you do only to notice what isn't on the plan. This is the most important thing in getting along with...anybody, and I can tell you because I copy it from her and it makes good sense. You don't go looking at the things people don't do, when they already be doing plenty in other areas. If your son collects stamps, why you want to go fussing at him because he doesn't play the clarinet? Check out his stamps, man.

  Bruce Brooks

  Nice, Son, Men

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• The myth of the first world is that
  development is wealth and technology progress.
  It is all rubbish.
  It means that you are no longer human beings
  but only labor.
  It means that the land you live on is not earth
  but only property.

  Karen Tei Yamashita

  Technology, Land, Progress

  Karen Tei Yamashita (1997). “Tropic of Orange: A Novel”

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• To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely passive, and yet infinitely active also; passive as regards self and its workings, active as regards attention and response to God. It is very hard to explain this so as to be understood But it means that we must lay down all the activity of the creature, as such, and must let only the activities of God work in us, and through us, and by us. Self must step aside, to let God work.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Letting Go, Self, Attention

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• Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others don’t. Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it. It has some negative connotations in psychological terminology when it implies finding meaning or pattern where none exists; and some positive ones when it implies finding something important, useful or beautiful. It thus links creativity and psychosis, genius and madness.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Beautiful, Creativity, Psychosis

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• Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being a Filipino means having as rich and noble a heritage of language, culture, patriotism and heroic deeds as any nation on earth. Let us teach a steadfast faith in Divine Providence, a stable family institution, the unhampered enjoyment of civil liberties, the advantages of constitutional government, the potentials of a rich and spacious land.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Heroic Deeds, Government, Land

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• All life includes loss. It's taken me many, many years to learn to deal with that, and I don't expect I'll ever be fully resigned to it. But that doesn't mean we have to turn away from the world, or stop striving for the best that we can do and be. We owe that much to ourselves, at least, and we deserve whatever measure of good may come of it.

  Ken Grimwood

  Taken, Loss, Years

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• Your staying alive means so much more than you really know, or that anyone is aware of at this moment.

  Jennifer Michael Hecht

  Alive, Moments, Staying

  "Suicide, and Hope for Our Future Selves". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. December 9, 2015.

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• Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined to poetry.

  Frank E. Gaebelein

  Rocks, Greek, Stones

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• So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.

  Julie Powell

  Long, May, Way

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