Mean Quotes - Page 40

• And, if you believe, in very simple terms, that people mean you well, and will treat you kindly, they will. And, if you believe that the world is against you, then so it will be in your experience. And, if you believe that you will begin to deteriorate at age 22, then so you shall.

  Jane Roberts

  Believe, Simple, People

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• I hope what people learned from watching me is that just because you do things a little differently doesn't mean you can't do them just as well.

  Jim Abbott

  People, Littles, Wells

  "Chasing an Impossible Dream" by Jim Abbott, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2015.

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• Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

  Aristotle

  Bravery, Excess, Temperance

  Aristotle, Terence Irwin (1996). “Aristotle: Introductory Readings”, p.218, Hackett Publishing

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• But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, True Friend, Giving

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.346, Wordsworth Editions

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• To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Giving Up, Ego

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• It’s probably the most unpopular policy I’m responsible for. I know it is very unpopular, culling badgers. But I believe it is the right thing to do. You have to make choices as a politician. Sometimes it means doing something you know people don’t like.

  David Cameron

  Believe, People, Choices

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• It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less reading, less study, less thought, less conflict, and less independent searching, but it also means less growth toward maturity.

  William Coperthwaite

  Jesus, Reading, Independent

  William Coperthwaite, John Saltmarsh (2007). “A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity”, p.13, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• All B.S. aside, it all comes down to... we got to survive. I mean, even warriors put their spears down on Sundays. We got to survive here in this country... 'cause I'm not going back to Africa. We got to survive here. And for us to survive here-White folks, Black folks, Korean folks, Mexican folks, Puerto Ricans-we got to understand each other.

  Tupac Shakur

  Country, Warrior, Sunday

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• Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Vision

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• Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, People

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• I mean, Emily Harris was his wife.And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.

  Patty Hearst

  Leadership, Hands, Wife

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• When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.

  Adrienne Barbeau

  Smile, Fun, Enjoy Life

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• It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go, the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger, and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean, it is just an amazing ride.

  Chris Hadfield

  Smile, Weather, Faces

  "Interview with Atlantis astronauts". Interview with John Holliman, www.cnn.com. November 14, 1995.

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• What we mean by Tao is the way or course of Nature. This way has nothing good or bad, it is a mere flowing of things following the development and decline attributes of the moment.

  Jian Yang

  Taoism, Development, Way

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• Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

  Leon Kass

  Country, Wish, Rogues

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• The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is full of surprises, humor, traps for the unwary, and challenges to smugness. It is a world of moods as well as of revelation, of beliefs and fears, of unpleasant truth as well as of delicious fantasy. Perhaps it is arrogant to say that anyone who does not venture into this world is only half-interested in life. I say it, nonetheless.

  Russell Lynes

  Art, Challenges, Doe

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• The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support - the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.

  Thomas Malthus

  Animal, Men, Support

  "In Honor of Halloween, Let’s Finally Let Zombie Bob Rest in Peace" by John Seager, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2013.

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• I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

  Patrick Marber

  New York, Play, Film

  "Closer - Patrick Marber Q&A" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but rather through a web of relationships among beings, each with their own weight and volume and texture.

  Shin Kyung-sook

  Sacrifice, Decision, Doe

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• Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Past, Weapons, Ends

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• A lot of people have said that I'm super-snarky and mean. But honesty is the only way to get people to change. It's very important to be constructively critical - give people alternatives and you're giving them a new way to see themselves.

  Stacy London

  Honesty, People, Giving

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• In the south there's a difference between 'Naked' and 'Nekkid.' 'Naked' means you don't have any clothes on. 'Nekkid' means you don't have any clothes on and you're up to somethin'.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Differences, Clothes, Naked

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• No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass is the sureness of ourselves. Time may make us rugged, ragged round the edges, but know and understand that love is still the safest place to land.

  Rod McKuen

  Love Is, Land, Rolling

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• To truly be feminine means being soft, receptive, and - look out, here it comes - submissive.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Looks, Submissive, Feminine

  Gabrielle Reece, Karen Karbo (2014). “My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper: A Guide to the Less Than Perfect Life”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• That's what dessert means to me: a dollop of sweet love in an otherwise cold world.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Sweet, World, Cold

  Sarah Strohmeyer (2008). “Sweet Love”, p.10, Penguin

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