Mean Quotes - Page 29

• Winning doesn't always mean being first.

  Bonnie Blair

  Winning, Firsts, Winning Attitude

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• Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers.

  Lincoln Peirce

  School, Towels, Baths

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• A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human, in every good and awful sense. Perhaps most amazingly of all, Thomas Buergenthal remembers and renders the small mysteries and grand passions of childhood, even a childhood lived under the most horrific circumstances.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Children, Passion, Childhood

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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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• There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves; it will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint, and it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so; for they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Men, Knowing, Fire

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• They can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What does that even mean?

  Adam Rex

  Zoos, Elephants, Doe

  Adam Rex (2010). “Fat Vampire: A Never-Coming-of-Age Story”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• I absolutely love television, and I don't mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the movie industry, I get more power and more money doing television, so why on earth would I do a film?

  Steven Moffat

  People, Television, Earth

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• Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

  Chris Cleave

  Stories, Alive, Chaos

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop to think about what it means.

  Chris Cleave

  Thinking, People, World

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• The Seer Stone referred to here was a chocolate-colored, somewhat egg-shaped stone which the Prophet found while digging a well in company with his brother Hyrum,... It possessed the qualities of Urim & Thummim, since by means of it - as described above - as well by means of the Interpreters found with the Nephite record, Joseph was able to translate the characters engraven on the plates.

  B. H. Roberts

  Brother, Character, Eggs

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• To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected.

  Preity Zinta

  Pain, Rejected, Knows

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

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• A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean that both sides are equally wrong; it means that since we all fall short of moral perfection, even the side whose cause is truly righteous may commit terrible acts of violence in defense of that cause -- and, worse, may feel quite justified in committing them. That is the difference between being righteous and being self-righteous. Moral standards are absolute; but human fidelity to them is always relative.

  Joseph Sobran

  Fall, Self, Differences

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• Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of social engineering.

  Joseph Sobran

  Rights, Government, Engineering

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• In a few more days we will celebrate Xmas, the day we commemorate the birth of you-know-who. ...It seems the modern consensus of enlightened people that his name should be used in polite society only when cursing.... [P]oliticians are often eager to associate themselves personally with you-know-who, even -- and especially -- when they rather flagrantly ignore his injunctions.... He was out of step then, and he is out of step now. He is eternally out of step, and eternally more powerful than those who keep in step. You know who I mean.

  Joseph Sobran

  Xmas, Powerful, Names

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• Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control.

  Joseph Sobran

  Gun, Political, Want

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• There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.

  Alan Blinder

  Next, Kind, Chains

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• Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, ‘I love you’ but it means nothing more to him than if he said, ‘I’ll have a cup of coffee.

  Robert D. Hare

  Coffee, Love You, Emotional

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• I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

  Elie Tahari

  Succeed, Homeless

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• Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Hate, War, Doe

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.169, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• If I can raise more money for charities, or get more Canadian kids to play golf, the green jacket will mean even more.

  Mike Weir

  Sports, Money, Kids

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• I can't tell you how much time is spent worrying about decisions that don't matter. To just be able to make a decision and see what happens is tremendously empowering, but that means you have to set up the situation such that when something does go wrong, you can fix it.

  Ward Cunningham

  Worry, Empowering, Decision

  "Collective Ownership of Code and Text: A Conversation with Ward Cunningham, Part II". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. December 01, 2003.

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• I started Ballet at a very young age and I was captivated immediately. It became my voice, means to overcome those final barriers to expressing myself. Letting myself fly free. The more experience I have, the more I get to know myself.

  Amanda McKerrow

  Dance, Voice, Ballet

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• Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.

  Chris Cavanaugh

  Life Changing, Communication, People

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• The love between a mother and her daughter is special. A mother takes her daughter under her wing and teaches her how to be a woman. In order to do this, you have to ask yourself what it means to be a woman of today. How do you balance care for others with your own quest for meaning and joy in life and how do you pass on these lessons to your daughter?

  Laura Ramirez

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• Goodbyes are not forever
  Goodbyes aren't final, when
  You only mean we'll miss you
  Until we meet again

  John Walter Bratton

  Goodbye, Farewell, Missing

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