Mean Quotes - Page 27

• There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Simple, Words Of Wisdom, Substance

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• Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.

  Thomas Huxley

  Girl, Wisdom, Sweet

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.

  Gelek Rimpoche

  Ego, Helping, Notion

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• Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

  Colson Whitehead

  Hilarious, Google, Brooklyn

  "I Write in Brooklyn. Get Over It." by Colson Whitehead, www.nytimes.com. March 2, 2008.

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• Many psychologists ... thought by turning their attention to their own consciousness to be able to explain what happened when we were thnking. Or they sought to attain the same end by asking another person a question, by means of which certain processes of thought would be excited, and then by questioning the person about the introspection he had made. It is obvious ... that nothing can be discovered in such experiments.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Psychology, Would Be, Attention

  Wilhelm Wundt, (2013). “An Introduction to Psychology”, p.75, Read Books Ltd

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• He said, 'Gosh, Dad, that mean's we're not going to any more bowl games.'

  Jim Colletto

  Sports, Dad, Games

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• The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and enterprise, and a people who will not stand up to the necessity of air service planned on a world scale, and taking over thousands of aeroplanes and thousands of men from the onset of peace, has no business to pretend anything more than a second rate position in the world. We cannot be both Imperial and mean.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Islands, Air

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• Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind. It is not simply a feeling of sorrow ,but a psycho/spiritual growth away from evil/death and a turning to God/life]. Sin is the wound, repentance is the medicine. Sin is followed by shame; repentance is followed by boldness [ Boldness means to beg God for undeserved mercy]. Satan has overturned this order and given boldness to sin and shame to repentance.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Love, Spiritual, Healing

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• To love someone whom you like is insignificant.
  To love someone because they love you is of no consequence.
  To love someone whom you do not like means you have learned a lesson in life.
  To love someone who blames you for no reason shows that you have learned the art of living.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Love, Art, Life Lesson

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• What was it called, that symbol of the serpent eating its own tail? It probably signified infinity, endlessness, timelessness. But for me it would mean the effort to love well going on and on, round and round, always imperfect and always forgivable. The best we could ever do for each other.

  Patricia Gaffney

  Love, Effort, Tails

  Patricia Gaffney (2004). “Circle of Three”

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• Sure, it's nice to win. But there's only one thing that's important to me and that's the money we're going to get, win or lose. . . . I don't love baseball, I like it. And to me, baseball means money, and that's all I care about.

  Vida Blue

  Love, Baseball, Nice

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• The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. And no wonder, for genuine liberty demands of its votaries a quality he lacks completely, and that is courage. The man who loves it must be willing to fight for it; blood, said Jefferson, is its natural manure. Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means the capacity for doing without . . . the average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Courage, Lying

  Notes on Democracy pt. 3 (1926)

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• The difficult tasks to be performed are not the ones that mean physical and mental labor, but the ones that you dislike, are the ones that you do not love. There are unpleasant angles to nearly every important job to be done in this world, but there must be an over all love for doing each, else precious time and effort are uselessly wasted. I shall never forget noting a sign above a construction job that read: "Builder of Difficult Foundations." That man must have loved that calling, else he would not have made a point of advertising the fact!

  George Matthew Adams

  Love, Jobs, Men

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• Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth - the purpose of all Creation. In this flowers may be enjoyed simply and directly in themselves as showing forth God's goodness and beauty, or, more fully, as archetypes, signatures, symbols, and bearers of legends, mirroring the revealed articles of Christian faith - thereby serving as means for their teaching, recollection, contemplation and celebration.

  John Stokes

  Beauty, Christian, Truth

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• Truth, in the broadest sense, means being attuned with the real. To be authentically in touch with the true, and the good and the beautiful. Yes?

  Ken Wilber

  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

  Ken Wilber (2007). “A Brief History of Everything”, p.157, Shambhala Publications

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• When we were little, we kept close to our mother in a dark alley or if dogs barked at us. Now, when we feel temptations of the flesh, we should run to the side of our Mother in Heaven, by realizing how she is to us, and by means of aspirations. She will defend us and lead us to the light.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Christian, Mother, Running

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• When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ, who is the fulfillness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world look to Christ.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mature Person, Giving, Catholic

  Pope John Paul II (1980). “Pilgrimage of peace: the collected speeches of John Paul II in Ireland and the United States”, HarperCollins

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• All men know their children mean more than life.

  Euripides

  Children, Men, Knows

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• Be kindly and just in your dealings with your men. Never play favorites. Make them feel that justice tempered with mercy may always be counted on. This does not mean a slackening of discipline. Obedience to orders and regulations must always be insisted upon, and good conduct on the part of the men exacted. Especially should this be done with reference to civilian inhabitants of foreign countries in which Marines are serving.

  John A. Lejeune

  Country, Marine, Men

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• It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.

  Kenneth Branagh

  People, Mean People, Strange

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• I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.

  Matt Lucas

  Strong, People, Comedy

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• People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.

  William Weld

  Jobs, Stupid, People

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• I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who mean something special to us.

  James de la Vega

  Pride, People, Community

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• If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.

  Sitting Bull

  Children, Land, White

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.

  Jeremy Brett

  Play, Space, People

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