Mean Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Thinking, Civilization, Serious

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

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• There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Important, Gone, Serious

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• Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.

  Clayton Christensen

  Children, Men, Grandparent

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• Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Squirrels, Laughing, Example

  Nâzım Hikmet, Mutlu Konuk Blasing (1994). “Poems of Nazim Hikmet”

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• If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.

  Victor Garber

  Silly, Aliases, Know How

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?

  Bob Woodward

  Stupid, Silly, People

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• There is no promise of love and light or visions of any kind - no angels, no devils. Nothing happens: it is absolutely boring. Sometimes you feel silly. One often asks the question, "Who is kidding whom? Am I on to something or not?" You are not on to something. Traveling the path means you get off everything, there is no place to perch. Sit and feel your breath, be with it.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Silly, Angel, Light

  Chogyam Trungpa (2002). “The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

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• That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, People, Joy

  "Living, Loving & Learning".

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• He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a method of experimental psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for truth.

  Maria Montessori

  Psychology, Wish, Nihilism

  Maria Montessori (2012). “The Montessori Method”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

  Hans Blix

  War, Autumn, Thinking

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• I know that producing will ultimately mean more longevity in the business, so when I'm tired of everything else and want to be behind the cameras, I know that I can produce.

  Maria Menounos

  Tired, Cameras, Want

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

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• Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

  Artie Lange

  Sad, Vegas, Tragedy

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• The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

  Barbara Boxer

  Letting Go, Essence, People

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• Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

  Julian Assange

  Mean Girls, Real, United States

  "WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on Iraq War Logs, "Tabloid Journalism" and Why WikiLeaks Is "Under Siege"". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. October 26, 2010.

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• You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

  Hector Elizondo

  Scripts, Dots, Jokes

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

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• The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame; Buy cheap, sell dear; eat. drink, and sleep down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want; Pay tithes for soul-insurance; keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sleep, Men, Blood

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.150, tredition

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• I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.

  Helen Keller

  Loss, Men, Voice

  Helen Adams Keller (1933). “Helen Keller in Scotland: A Personal Record Written by Herself”

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• We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Winning, Grace, Together

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• By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Art, Memories, Flower

  "Mes Apprentissages". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1936.

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• You know, this dialogue is only helpful when we come, both of us, to a point where we realize that no dialogue is possible, that no dialogue is necessary. When I say understanding or seeing, they mean something different to me. Understanding is a state of being where the question isn't there any more. There is nothing there that says, "Now I understand!" That's the basic difficulty between us. By understanding what I am saying, you are not going to get anywhere.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Understanding, Different, Helpful

  "The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti".

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• To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Technique, Language, Masters

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

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• Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Eugenics, Discovery, Socialism

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays”, Ralph Myles Pub

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• More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Eugenics, Everyday, Democracy

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

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• We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.

  Martin Buber

  Learning, Whole

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