Mean Quotes - Page 36

• You lose anyone, there’s no replacing them. What you need to get is that’s precious, you get to keep that, you don’t want to replace it. That doesn’t mean you can’t find something else just as good.

  Kristen Ashley

  Needs, Want, Loses

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• I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through, and others who came in mean and will go out mean. It's like coffee. Once it's roasted, it all looks brown. Until you pour hot water on it and see what comes out. Folks get into hot water, you see what comes out.

  Nancy E. Turner

  Coffee, Water, Hot

  Nancy E. Turner (2010). “Sarah's Quilt: A Novel of Sarah Agnes Prine and the Arizona Territories, 1906”, p.265, Macmillan

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• Sometimes you don't have to mean to hurt someone to hurt someone.

  R. J. Palacio

  Hurt, Sometimes, Hurts Someone

  R J Palacio (2012). “Wonder”, p.137, Random House

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• What I see here, what I feel here is that people in your world believe spirituality isn't distant. It's close and real. Religion seems born in the home, stays in the home. I mean, the services are even held in the home. And there's not one person in charge, one speaker set above the others. It's farmers and carpenters, and well, just average folk speaking spontaneously about the message they find in the Bible. [...] A message from the heart to the heart.

  Barbara Cameron

  Real, Believe, Home

  Barbara Cameron (2010). “A Time To Love”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Design is all about relationships. Unfortunately, many designers don’t fully appreciate this. Some of the best design work I’ve ever done was drinking coffee or beers with engineers, marketing people, and business development hustlers. And I wholeheartedly mean design work.

  Daniel Burka

  Drinking, Coffee, Beer

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• There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.

  Amir Butler

  Determination, Self, Doubt

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• Just remember, you must know everything well before you can know what to discard. You must cover pages with material you will not finally put into the book. That doesn't mean you don't use it. It is still there, must be there, an invisible foundation which gives authority to the story. The planning done on setting is never wasted.

  Dorothy Bryant

  Book, Giving, Stories

  "Writing a Novel: Some Hints for Beginners".

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• There is a mean streak to authentic self-control. Underneath what seems to be the placid demeanor of those who are not ruled by their desires is the heart of a warrior. Self control is not for the timid. When we want to grow in it, not only do we nurture an exuberance for Jesus Christ, we also demand of ourselves a hatred for sin.

  Edward T Welch

  Jesus, Heart, Warrior

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• For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it

  Jamake Highwater

  Mystery, Celebrate, Explaining

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• How do we professionally manage content? We don’t. We shouldn’t manage content in the same way that we shouldn’t manage technology. Content and technology are merely a means to an end. What is the end? The end is the task the customer wishes to complete. That is what we should manage.

  Gerry McGovern

  Technology, Wish, Tasks

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• Don't you know yet that men are full of words that mean nothing? The silence of a woman is a thousand times weightier. You must learn to trust silence. To load it with truth, and to wait.

  Sharon Maas

  Men, Silence, Waiting

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• We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. We inhabit singledom as our natural resting state...Secretly, we are romantics, romantics of the highest order. We want a miracle. Out of millions we have to find the one who will understand. For the quirkyalone, there is no patience for dating just for the sake of not being alone. On a fine but by no means transcendent date, we dream of going home to watch television. We would prfer to be alone with our own thoughts than with a less than perfect fit...but when the quirkyalone collides with another, ooh la la. The earth quakes.

  Sasha Cagen

  Dream, Home, Order

  "Original Essay" by Sasha Cagen, quirkyalone.net. July 2000.

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• Beauty’s all around me right here. It’s not in a textbook. It’s not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight … The colors flow into your lungs, into your bloodstream. You are the colors.

  Tim Tharp

  Color, Textbooks, Flow

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• In a world where inequality of ability is inevitable, anarchists do not sanction any attempt to produce equality by artificial or authoritarian means. The only equality they posit and will strive their utmost to defend is the equality of opportunity. This necessitates the maximum amount of freedom for each individual. This will not necessarily result in equality of incomes or wealth but will result in returns proportionate to service rendered.

  Laurance Labadie

  Opportunity, Income, World

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• Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of Justice are so poorly organized. On the other hand, the Evil is cynic, sly and fantastically organized. It never ever has the illusion of the ability to stand on its own feet and to win in a fair competition. That is why it is ready to use any kind of means without hesitation. And of course it does - under the banners of the most noble ideas.

  Vladimir Bukovsky

  Believe, Winning, Feet

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• As you probably know, I'm often accused of intellectual exhibitionism and all forms of elitism. Although I can understand this point of view, it's a rather wasted argument because, if we regard areas of information as being elite and therefore somehow not usable, it means our centre-ground of activity becomes very, very impoverished.

  Peter Greenaway

  Views, Intellectual, Exhibitionism

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.

  Neil Jordan

  Years, Issues, Political

  Interview with with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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• Adding more people causes problems. But people are also the means to solve these problems. The main fuel to speed the world’s progress is our stock of knowledge; the brakes are our lack of imagination and unsound social regulations of these activities. The ultimate resource is people—especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty—who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefits, and so inevitably they will benefit the rest of us as well.

  Julian Simon

  People, Imagination, Hopeful

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• Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.

  George Combe

  Thinking, Taught Us, Long

  George Combe (2010). “Notes on the United States of North America During a Phrenological Visit in 1838-39-40”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

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• What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we’ve read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we do after reading; whether the street and the clouds and the existence of others mean anything to us; whether reading makes us, physically, more alive.

  Gabriel Zaid

  Reading, Book, Clouds

  Gabriel Zaid, Natasha Wimmer (2003). “So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance”, Paul Dry Books Incorporated

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• Being a warrior doesn’t mean winning or even succeeding. It means risking and failing and risking again, as long as you live.

  Richard Strozzi-Heckler

  Warrior, Winning, Long

  Richard Strozzi-Heckler (2007). “In Search of the Warrior Spirit: Teaching Awareness Disciples to the Military”, p.311, Blue Snake Books

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• If the U.N. secretary-general withdraws the inspectors from Baghdad ... this means that the secretary-general has abandoned its own responsibility in maintaining peace and security in the world.

  Naji Sabri

  Responsibility, Baghdad, World

  "Iraq: Bush, not Saddam, should quit". www.cnn.com. March 18, 2003.

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• Essentialism is not about how to get more things done, it's about how to the get the right things done. It doesn't mean just doing less for the sake of less either. It is about making the wisest possible investment of your time and energy in order to operate at our highest point of contribution by doing only what is essential.

  Greg McKeown

  Order, Energy, Essentials

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• The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of making choices reactively, the Essentialist deliberately distinguishes the vital few from the trivial many, eliminates the non-essentials, and then removes obstacles so the essential things have clear, smooth passage. In other words, Essentialism is a disciplined, systematic approach for determining where our highest point of contribution lies, then making execution of those things almost effortless.

  Greg McKeown

  Lying, Choices, Design

  "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, April 17, 2014.

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• The word priority was singular for 500 years—what does priorities mean—'many many first things.'

  Greg McKeown

  Years, Priorities, Doe

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