Mean Quotes - Page 18

• I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did.

  Liza Minnelli

  People, Disease, Helping

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• In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

  Heather Donahue

  Self, People, Purpose

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• Rich dad went on to explain that the world was filled with different types of entrepreneurs. There are entrepreneurs who are big and small, rich and poor, honest and crooked, for-profit and not-for-profit, saint and sinner, small town and international, and successes and failures. He said, "The word entrepreneur is a big word and it means different things to different people."

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dad, Business, People

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• Conscious means "having an awareness of one's inner and outer worlds; mentally perceptive, awake, mindful." So "conscious business" might mean, engaging in an occupation, work, or trade in a mindful, awake fashion. This implies, of course, that many people do not do so. In my experience, that is often the case. So I would definitely be in favor of conscious business; or conscious anything, for that matter.

  Ken Wilber

  Fashion, Business, People

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• Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love. Of course, if the spectator be without the last, the whole will present but a pitiful appearance, and in that case, the sun is merely so many miles in diameter, the trees are good for fuel, the flowers are classified by stamens, and the water is simply wet.

  Heinrich Heine

  Nature, Flower, Water

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.169

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• To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, Mind, Able

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wise, Government, Faithful

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.33, Race Point Publishing

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• The special life is where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, the natural becomes miraculous, the everyday becomes unique. Finding the magic and wonder within nature is the most assured means by which children rediscover the joy of life.

  Shmuley Boteach

  Life, Children, Unique

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• We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Direct Action, Community

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Selfish, Quality

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• I can not 'make my mark' for all time - those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning does not exist in the future and neither do I. Nothing will have meaning 'ultimately.' Nothing will even mean tomorrow what it did today. Meaning changes with the context. My meaningfulness is here. It is enough that I am of value to someone today. It is enough that I make a difference now.

  Hugh Prather

  Time, Future, Self

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.24, Bantam

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• Yeah, handsome, great big guy, seven feet tall! Name is Rick Miller - Portland, Oregon. And he started a business. Of course you know it was in basketball. But it wasn't in basketball! I mean, I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.

  Mitt Romney

  Basketball, Sports, Portland Oregon

  "Mitt Romney and “Sport,” a Continuing Saga" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. June 12, 2012.

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• There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for, that have gagged generations, depriving them of significant and natural means of expression. This is a terrible loss and an unnecessary one.

  Peter London

  Wise, Art, Loss

  Peter London (1989). “No More Secondhand Art”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• Faithfulness to your husband means sticking up for him, always building him up and never tearing him down.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Marriage, Husband

  Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.66, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.

  Benjamin Spock

  Time, Essence, Together

  Benjamin Spock, M.D. (1985). “Raising Children in a Difficult Time”, Pocket

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• If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people can have an enormous amount of influence over others. Some of us, after all, are very good at expressiing emotions and feelings, which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, People, Feelings

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• PEOPLE DIE.
  This is the fact the world desperately hides from us from birth. Long after you find out the truth about sex and Santa Claus, this other myth endures, this one about how you’ll always get rescued at the last second and if not, your death will at least mean something and there’ll be somebody there to hold your hand and cry over you. All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you’ll die, and you’ll probably be alone.

  David Wong

  Sex, Lying, Hands

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.133, Titan Books

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• Aikido can be summed up like this: True victory is self-victory; let that day arrive quickly! (True victory) means unflinching courage; (self-victory) symbolizes unflagging effort; and (let that day arrive quickly) represents the glorious moment of triumph in the here and now.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Self, Effort, Victory

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• Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women’s morality means that nothing else matters-not what we accomplish, not what we think, not what we care about and work for. Just if/how/whom we have sex with. That’s all.

  Jessica Valenti

  Sex, Thinking, Culture Religion

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.24, Seal Press

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• When the enemy attacks you, this means that you are on the right road.

  Enver Hoxha

  Enemy, Right Road

  "Albania Challenges Khrushchev Revisionism".

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• There's been times when I've been in really tough shape at the top of the course. Talk about a hard challenge right there. I mean, if you ever tried to ski when you're wasted, it's not easy. Try and ski a slalom when … you hit a gate less than every one a second, so it's risky, you know. You're putting your life at risk there. It's like driving drunk only there's no rules about it in ski racing.

  Bode Miller

  Drunk, Challenges, Risk

  "Miller on the carpet over drink-and-ski interview". Interview With Erica Bulman, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2006.

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• Winning doesn't always mean being first.

  Bonnie Blair

  Winning, Firsts, Winning Attitude

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• The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Character, Creating, Important

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• In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Country, Expression, Europe

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• To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.

  Warren Moon

  Feelings, Prime

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