Mean Quotes - Page 34

• Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.

  James Mattis

  Military, Real, Understanding

  "General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis Email About Being 'Too Busy To Read' Is A Must-Read" by Geoffrey Ingersoll, www.businessinsider.com. May 09, 2013.

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• Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper."

  Greg Ray

  Latin, Term Paper, Paraphrase

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• I came to realize that visualizing, projecting yourself into a successful situation, is the most powerful means there is of achieving personal goals.

  Leonard Lauder

  Life, Motivation, Powerful

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• In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pride, Men, Oratory

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• Even if a bodhisattva investigates the highest wisdom, one is not a proper bodhisattva unless one applies skillful means for the benefit of other sentient beings.

  Je Tsongkhapa

  Animal, Benefits, Bodhisattva

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• If that means going onto their farms, releasing their animals and burning the place to the ground, that's morally justifiable, in our opinion...There were always innocent people who got hurt somewhere along the way but it was important that those who oppressed one group of people be stopped, and we don't see the animal liberation struggle being substantially different from these other struggles.... A sustained campaign against a particular industry or a particular organization has the potential to be quite effective.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Hurt, Struggle, Animal

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• Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Powerful, Military, War

  "New world disorder". www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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• To be a hero means being the author of your own myth.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Hero, Myth

  Alberto Villoldo (2010). “The Four Insights: Wisdom, Power, and Grace of the Earthkeepers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.59, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.

  William Whewell

  Art, Truth Is, Ends

  William Whewell (1840). “Aphorisms Concerning Ideas, Science & the Language of Science”, p.25

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• As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what we want the world to mean.

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Vocabulary, Looks

  Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

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• Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps, romance only the fiction by means of which the tender-minded negotiate their lust?

  Trevanian

  Passion, Men, Self

  Trevanian (2005). “The Summer of Katya: A Novel”, p.9, Crown

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• Curiosity’s primal. Our senses scan our surroundings, alerting us most urgently about sudden change. Useful, that. Change can mean opportunity. It can mean danger. Finding lunch or being lunch. We’re hard-wired to notice the unexpected, then take action.

  Julie Czerneda

  Opportunity, Lunch, Curiosity

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• You are right. I have no idea, and it is none of my business, and I was taught to obey my parents. But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly.
  Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child forever, whether that means not touching a spindle or . . . or . . .

  Alex Flinn

  Children, Ideas, Parent

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• You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.

  A. R. Rahman

  Passion, Being The Best, Possessiveness

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• Think of the horse as your partner.and it's all one great dance.
  That's not to say it's always going to be easy or you won't have to work through issues.
  But when a horse is troubled or uncomfortable in our world, rather than show contempt for him, you must demonstrate empathy and work to convince him that you mean him no harm.
  You have some things that you'd like him to do 'with you', as opposed to 'for you'- and the best way to do that is as partners.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Thinking, Our World

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• I often tell people in the clinics, the human possesses the one thing that means more to the horse than anything in the world, and that is peace and comfort.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, People, Comfort

  "'Buck': Real-Life Horse Whisperer's Story of Abuse, Finding Comfort With Horses" by Nikki Battiste, Lauren Effron, abcnews.go.com. January 23, 2012.

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• It seems totally unfair that the way we look matters so much. I mean, why can't we just get over this gotta-be-thin-and-beautiful thing? Why can't we just accept ourselves and others for what we are?

  Melody Carlson

  Beautiful, Looks, Matter

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• Mostly I think I've learned to trust God more. I mean, if I start getting worried or freaked, I just try to put it in God's hands. Sometimes I imagine God cradling the globe in his hands, and I tell myself that as long as I'm with God, the Creator of the universe, I can be comfortable and at home anyplace on the planet.

  Melody Carlson

  Home, Thinking, Hands

  Melody Carlson (2009). “Notes from a Spinning Planet--Mexico”, p.225, WaterBrook

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• Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show, the increase in power and responsibility they give the reader.

  Geoff Ryman

  Jesus, Honesty, Lying

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• A white girl disappears from a white prep school in a white suburb. Nobody knows what happened to her. The overall whiteness of the world is threatened. This must be resolved by whatever means possible.

  Heidi Julavits

  Girl, School, White

  Heidi Julavits (2008). “The Uses of Enchantment”, p.172, Anchor

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• Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Done, Deeds

  Samuel Smiles (1910). “Character. Repr”

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• Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a share of it. And so it binds us together, makes us trodden and sodden as one another. Sorry is a lot of things. It's a hole refilled. A debt repaid. Sorry is the wake of misdeed. It's the crippling ripple of consequence. Sorry is sadness, just as knowing is sadness. Sorry is sometimes self-pity. But Sorry, really, is not about you. It's theirs to take or leave.

  Craig Silvey

  Sorry, Pain, Sadness

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• Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater self-knowledge. It teaches clients to live harmoniously with others and it enhances Existential consciousness, and allows people to take responsibility for their effects on the world at large. For me , happiness is about appreciating what one has. Practically speaking,this means lowering expectations about what is fair, possible and likely. It means,finding pleasure in the ordinary.

  Mary Pipher

  Moving, Responsibility, Self

  Mary Pipher (2009). “Letters to a Young Therapist: Stories of Hope and Healing”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

  Richard Flanagan

  One Sentence, Sentences

  Richard Flanagan (2014). “The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel”, p.141, Vintage

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• A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.

  Harry Mulisch

  Men, Ideas, May

  Harry Mulisch (2011). “The Assault”, p.43, Pantheon

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