Mean Quotes - Page 35

• I've written this song called 'Insania' - it's a mix of Insane and Mania, and even though it's a made up word you instantly know what it means!

  Peter Andre

  Song, Insane, Made

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• By the same means we do not always arrive at the same ends.

  Cesar Vichard de Saint-Real

  Ends

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• Our public schools need to be in the control of parents and the community, as opposed to businessmen who see the $23 billion budget as a means to giving no-bid contracts to their cronies.

  Charles Barron

  School, Giving, Community

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• I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.

  Max McKeown

  Brilliant, Strategy, Ends

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• The saints show us that being a baptized Christian means living as a new creation, rejoicing in a life radically different from the status quo of the world. All the holy people, whose lives fill this book, show readers how to let the grace of God in the sacraments create their lives anew.

  Stephen J. Binz

  Christian, Book, People

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• Not having money to spend doesn’t mean we can’t have well-spent moments every day. (42)

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Moments, Wells

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• Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen.

  Wayne Muller

  Doe, Happens, Hard

  Wayne Muller (2013). “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives”, p.187, Bantam

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• To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when it is not based on a false attachment. The process of first emptying the heart can be found in the beginning half of the shahada (declaration of faith).

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Heart, Attachment, Doe

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• Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.

  Xunzi

  Character, Vicious, Animosity

  Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.137, Stanford University Press

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• If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you things until your nerves unfold and you can finally put up your feet. But it can all be a lie. There are no guarantees, even when people mean what they say at the time. People change their minds. People die. And the hurt is as real as a baseball bat.

  Stephanie Klein

  Baseball, Hurt, Real

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• My therapist told me I need to learn to love myself. It sounds easy enough, but really, how do you just wake up one day and learn that? It feels like something you should just do involuntarily, like swallowing or blinking, but now I have to work on it. It feels so forced. I mean, I know I went to a good school, and people tell me I'm smart and creative, but I don't KNOW that. I don't know how to make myself feel that.

  Stephanie Klein

  Smart, School, People

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• From the standpoint of education, genius means essentially 'giving birth to the joy in learning.' I'd like to suggest that this is the central task of all educators. It is the genius of the student that is the driving force behind all learning. Before educators take on any of the other important issues in learning, they must first have a thorough understanding of what lies at the core of each student's intrinsic motivation to learn, and that motivation originates in each student's genius.

  Thomas Armstrong

  Motivation, Lying, Thorough Understanding

  Thomas Armstrong (1998). “Awakening Genius in the Classroom”, p.2, ASCD

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• Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Welcome, Patient, Arise

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.319, Tharpa Publications UK

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• True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Repentance, Making Amends, Persons

  Lawana Blackwell (2008). “The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark (The Gresham Chronicles Book #3)”, p.437, Baker Books

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• When a person you love dies, it doesn’t feel real. It’s like it’s happening to someone else. It’s someone else’s life. I’ve never been good with the abstract. What does it mean when someone is really truly gone?

  Jenny Han

  Real, Doe, Gone

  Jenny Han (2011). “It's Not Summer Without You”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise.

  Norman Macbeth

  Problem, Natural, Arise

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• This does not mean that the profession is about to abandon Darwin forever or indorse [sic] my views publicly. The situation remains much as it was: the inner circles are full of doubt, but the public utterances are confident. The doubts may be greater now and the confidence less serene, but it will be a long time before the public is given the full dark picture. There is still need for a dissenting voice, a devil's advocate, a skeptical whistle-blower.

  Norman Macbeth

  Dark, Circles, Voice

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• This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance of biology from The Origin of Species. To establish the continuity required by theory, historical arguments are invoked, even though historical evidence is lacking. Thus are engendered those fragile towers of hypothesis based on hypothesis, where fact and fiction intermingle in an inextricable confusion.

  W. R. Thompson

  Confusion, Historical, Limits

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• We're not going to get the jack-booted thugs stomping on a human face that you get in '1984' but we might get the 'Brave New World' where the biggest problem there is how to deal with the fact that everyone is so happy...[W]hat we're going to get is a nanny-type of fascism, if we get one at all...[S]imply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.

  Jonah

  Brave New World, Thug, Might

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• Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.

  Simon Van Booy

  Years

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.18, Oneworld Publications

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• Life can unmoor so many feelings; it is a relief we sleep through it.
  Night unravels the day and reinvents it for the first time.
  We may mean nothing to time, but to each other we are kings and queens, and the world is a wild benevolent garden filled with chance meetings and unexplained departures.

  Simon Van Booy

  Queens, Kings, Sleep

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.272, Oneworld Publications

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• Eun Gi is lying. It means she doesn't believe me. It means she is angry at me. It means she can't forgive me.

  Ma-Roo

  Lying, Believe, Forgive Me

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• As a reader, you’re often inside one or more character heads, so you know what they’re feeling, even if they can’t exactly say it, or they say it so obliquely that the other characters don’t catch it. Readers are frequently reminded of the gulf between what people say and what they mean, and such moments prod us to become more attuned to gesture, tone, and language.

  Will Schwalbe

  Character, People, Feelings

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• The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true.

  Megan Chance

  Answers

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