Really Mean Quotes - Page 11

• People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, People, Demon

  C. S. Lewis (2005). “The wisdom of Narnia”

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• She was doing that thing some people do when they act nice and chipper and interested, while just below the surface they’re thinking really mean thoughts, and you can never call them on it because they’d just accuse you of being paranoid.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Nice, Mean, Thinking

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• Now that's an Okay that really means Okay, not that Okay that women use that means everything but Okay.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Mean, Use, Okay

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2012). “Kiss the Dead: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.66, Penguin

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• Don't take me for a fool!" Dee interrupted angrily, but then had to lean over the boat as another bout of nausea gripped him. Virginia grinned and winked at Josh. "It's hard to sound masterful when you're throwing up, isn't it?" "I hate you, Virginia Dare," Dee mumbled. "I know you don't really mean that," she said lightly. "I do," he croaked.

  Michael Scott

  Hate, Mean, Virginia

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• No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.

  R.K. Narayan

  Mean, Men, Criticism

  R.K. Narayan (2001). “The Writerly Life: Selected Non-fiction”, p.72, Penguin Books India

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• our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Country, Mean, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• You're in a bad mood,' Skulduggery said. 'I understand. I do. You're saying things that you don't really mean. It's OK.' 'I'll kill you both.' 'Hurtful things said in the heat of the moment. We're not going to hold it against you, Bison. We're all friends here.' Valkyrie nodded. 'We love you Bison.' 'We do,' Skulduggery agreed. 'You're our favourite Necromancer. You're the cuddly one.' 'Shut up,' Dragonclaw said. 'Both of you just shut up.

  Derek Landy

  Love You, Mean, Hurtful

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• And even if she says no, and really means yes, then quite frankly she's playing games and isn't worth the price of dinner.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Mean, Playing Games, Dinner

  Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• When life backs you into a corner and offers you no escape, when your friends, your lover, and your family abandon you, when you're at the end of your rope, panicked, alone, and losing your mind, you know you'd give anything to make your problems go away. Then, desperate and eager, you will come to Unicorn Lane, seeking salvation in its magics and secrets. You'll do anything, pay any price. Unicorn Lane will take you in, shroud you in its power, fix your problems, and exact its price. And then you will learn what 'anything' really means.

  Ilona Andrews

  Mean, Giving, Magic

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.34, Penguin

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• Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though.

  Richard Dawkins

  Moving, Mean, Surveillance Cameras

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• Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Mean, Break, Said

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise me if she wrote it down. "So what does that really mean? In simple terms." I think it over. It takes me a while to gather my thoughts, but she waits patiently. "I think it means," I say, "that chance encounters are what keep us going. In simple terms.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Thinking, Compassion

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 16, 2011

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• Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button, or do a lot of these things with out knowing what's behind it, and what it really means.

  Lester Bangs

  Mean, Thinking, Knowing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westerners about what the market really means.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Teaching, Mean, Planning

  "No Third Way Out: An Interview with Vaclav Klaus". Interview with John Fund, reason.com. June 1, 1990.

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• We speak of memorizing as getting something 'by heart,' which really means 'by head.' But getting a poem or prose passage truly 'by heart' implies getting it by mind and memory and understanding and delight.

  John Hollander

  Memories, Heart, Mean

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• From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

  Reynolds Price

  Artist, Age, World

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• In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Mean

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• I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers around town, and then screening them for my parents. I still would love to make movies someday that's something that really means a lot to me, and I know I'll have the chance to do it one day.

  Joe Jonas

  Brother, Mean, Parent

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• Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mistake, Mean, Making Mistakes

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.22, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Mean, Stories, Emotion

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• Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

  Steven Bochco

  Stories, Television, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Only we big sinners have this grace of knowing what salvation really means.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, Knowing, Grace

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• What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do.

  Julia Cameron

  Money, Want, Useful Life

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Nov 13, 2013

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• Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspiration, Mean, People

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• Saying "I'll try" really means "I'm not really committed."

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Mean, Trying

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