Really Mean Quotes - Page 4

• our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Country, Mean, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.

  R.K. Narayan

  Mean, Men, Criticism

  R.K. Narayan (2001). “The Writerly Life: Selected Non-fiction”, p.72, Penguin Books India

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• Don't take me for a fool!" Dee interrupted angrily, but then had to lean over the boat as another bout of nausea gripped him. Virginia grinned and winked at Josh. "It's hard to sound masterful when you're throwing up, isn't it?" "I hate you, Virginia Dare," Dee mumbled. "I know you don't really mean that," she said lightly. "I do," he croaked.

  Michael Scott

  Hate, Mean, Virginia

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• Now that's an Okay that really means Okay, not that Okay that women use that means everything but Okay.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Mean, Use, Okay

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2012). “Kiss the Dead: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.66, Penguin

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• Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Party, Mean, Shells

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• She was doing that thing some people do when they act nice and chipper and interested, while just below the surface they’re thinking really mean thoughts, and you can never call them on it because they’d just accuse you of being paranoid.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Nice, Mean, Thinking

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• People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, People, Demon

  C. S. Lewis (2005). “The wisdom of Narnia”

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• I have come to know that adversity really means the things in life that challenge us and cause us to work with devotion and courage to overcome. I once stood on a street in Trondheim, Norway, looking up at a statue of a Viking. There came to my mind at that time a fable of the Norsemen that when a man won a victory over another, the strength of the conquered went over into his veins. Therefore, in this sense adversity is good, for it produces in us a source of strength as we learn to conquer our weaknesses.

  Alvin R. Dyer

  Life, Mean, Adversity

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• The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to offend the rules, which really means that they don't offend the interests of business or the pampered sensibilities of the Aga class. The media, driven by fear and advertising, are hopelessly biased towards the consumer economy and against the biosphere.

  George Monbiot

  Mean, Media, Class

  "Civilisation ends with a shutdown of human concern. Are we there already?" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2007.

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• Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically', they really mean, 'not really'.

  David Parnas

  Mean Girls, Humorous, Science

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• We had all been feeling this, about the Buffy/Riley relationship. It never had the fire that Buffy/Angel did. It wasn't really meant to.

  Jane Espenson

  Angel, Fire, Feelings

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• People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.

  H. L. Mencken

  Atheist, Mean, People

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• It's time for us as a country to try to come together in ways that freedom was really meant to be.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Country, Trying, Together

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• Why wouldn't I be able to look at you? You're not my woman and I don't even have feelings for you. You really mean nothing to me now.

  Jung Woo

  Drama, Mean, Feelings

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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

  Mean, Ego, Helping

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• Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God.... Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God. That is all the 'A' before 'Theist' really means.

  George William Foote

  Atheist, Mean, Atheism

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• The key to happiness: You may speak of love and tenderness and passion, but real ecstasy is discovering you haven't lost your keys after all. Women begin by resisting a man's advances and end by blocking his retreat. If you want to change a woman's mind, agree with her. If you want to know what a woman really means, look at her - don't listen to her.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Block, Real

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• He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that is, not in reading the tape but in sizing up the entire market and its trend.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Reading, Tape, Investing

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• We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here when the hand of your clock is here, and so on. We say we measure time with clocks, but we see only the hands of the clocks, not time itself. And the hands of a clock are a physical variable like any other. So in a sense we cheat because what we really observe are physical variables as a function of other physical variables, but we represent that as if everything is evolving in time.

  Carlo Rovelli

  Time, Moving, Mean

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• My guess [is] . . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean gun banishment. . . . I think the country has long been ready to restrict the use of guns, except for hunting rifles and shotguns, and now I think we're prepared to get rid of the damned things entirely - the handguns, the semis and the automatics.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Country, Mean, Gun

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• I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.

  Rod Taylor

  Birthday, Party, Night

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• Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Mean, Winning

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• When you ask someone how they are doing, do you really mean it? When you answer someone back how you are doing, are you really telling the truth?

  Brady Quinn

  Mean, Answers, Telling The Truth

  "Brady Quinn on Jovan Belcher tragedy: An eloquent moment for Chiefs QB" by Cindy Boren, www.washingtonpost.com. December 3, 2012.

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• You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more.

  Glynis Johns

  Mean, Sound, Corny

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• Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.

  Laura Dern

  Heart, Mean, People

  "New Again: Laura Dern". Interview with Gary Indiana, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 10, 2016.

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