Very Mean Quotes - Page 2

• I can be mean. Not dirty. But very mean.

  Brandon Jacobs

  Dirty, Mean, I Can

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• Why, who cries out on pride that can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea till the weary very means do ebb?

  William Shakespeare

  Party, Mean, Pride

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1716, Oxford University Press

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• We have resorted to every means to win back the position that Adam lost. We have tried through education, through philosophy, through religion, through governments to throw off our yoke of depravity and sin. All our knowledge, all our inventions, all our developments and ambitious plans move us ahead only a very little before we drop back again to the point from which we started. For we are still making the same mistake that Adam made - - we are still trying to be king in our own right, and with our own power, instead of obeying God's law.

  Billy Graham

  Kings, Philosophy, Mistake

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• The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Men, Light, Darkness

  "Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion". Ninth edition, p. 403, 1988.

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• If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid.

  John Piper

  Views, Grace, Ifs

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.43, Multnomah

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• I mean, Lady Gaga is trying to be a freak or whatever but that quality of being very meaningly and heartfelt, but also having a sense of humor about it, bands don't do that anymore. Lady Gaga's songs are cheesy. The Beatles weren't cheesy. That's the hardest thing with music: to not be cheesy, but also be meaningful. That's the goal, I think.

  Mac DeMarco

  Meaningful, Song, Thinking

  Source: www.self-titledmag.com

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• There was a product on late night TV that you could attach to your garden hose - "You can water your hard-to-reach plants with this." Who would make their plants hard to reach? That seems so very mean. I know you need water, but I'm going to make you hard to reach. "Think like a cactus!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Mean

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• I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance.

  Lillie Devereux Blake

  Mean, Earning, Poor

  Lillie Devereux Blake (1874). “Fettered for Life, Or, Lord and Master: A Story of To-day”, p.53

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• Nine different people gathered and became like a family. To me, it is a very meaningful tie.

  Im Yoona

  Meaningful, Ties, People

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• Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women for many a year, by the very means which now makes them weak, underpaid competitors in the great workshop of the world.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Beauty, Work, Mean

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• When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Mean, Thinking, Order

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• Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Mean, Power, Bleeding Heart

  Interview with Tim Ralfe, CBC, October 13, 1970.

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• My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Mean, Requirements, Tactics

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• I am succeeding very well so far with my legging, but it is a very mean business for a man that has been well brought up to engage in. It is the only way to get a bill from Cincinnati through, so it must be done.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Mean, Men, Bills

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• True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mean, Bravery, Solitude

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• I'm not in the habit of having my photo snapped on some pretty young thing's arm. I avoid pictures because they serve no purpose, except to point out each new line, which is very meaningless.

  George Harrison

  Purpose, Lines, Arms

  Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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• The Japanese army is now prepared to use every means within its power to subdue its opponents. The objectives of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces are, as clearly set forth in statements issued by the Japanese Government, not only to protect the vested interests of Japan and the lives and property of the Japanese residents in the affected area, but also to scourge the Chinese Government and army who have een pursuing anti-foreign and anti-Japanese policies in collaboration with Communist influences.

  Iwane Matsui

  Mean, Army, Government

  "Shanghai's Undeclared War: An Illustrated Factual Recording of the Shanghai Hostilities". Book by George C. Bruce, p. 54, 1937.

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• To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Evil, Expansion

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• I had some great music teachers who were men, but I think there's something about having these master teachers who were women in my life. That's very meaningful to me and you see it in my work. I write a lot about matriarchs and the pain of it, the beauty of it, the burden of it, the love of it.

  Quiara Alegria Hudes

  Meaningful, Teacher, Pain

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I tell very mean jokes.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Mean, Jokes

  "Comedian Anthony Jeselnik: “He’s The Best!” -Everybody". Interview With David Dean, www.serialoptimist.com. November 29, 2010.

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• I love being lost! I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone. I think I have some very meaningful relationships with people, we all do. At the same time, I recognize that everyone is following their own heart; there's been people who have left my life and I don't have a problem with that.

  Cass McCombs

  Meaningful, Heart, Love Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Aloha spirit is something that is very special and very meaningful to us and our Polynesian culture. Those of you who have had the opportunity to visit Hawaii, or any of the Polynesian islands, know that it's a very special thing. It's an intangible, and when you get off the plane and have your feet on the ground there, it energetically takes you to a different place.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Meaningful, Opportunity, Feet

  Source: collider.com

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• I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.

  Chris Cleave

  Mean, Thinking, Bravery

  "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test'--Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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• I didn't have a rigidly enforced religious parental pressure, but I did have a few years in my mid-teens of turning to religion, and it was very meaningful to me.

  Warren Beatty

  Meaningful, Religious, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think Ted Cruz is a very mean-spirited guy. You can see it from how the Republican Party responds to him.

  Hillary Clinton

  Party, Mean, Thinking

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