Being Mean Quotes (page 4)

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• top
• closed
• meanness

Being average means you are as close to the bottom as you are to the top. John Wooden

• kindness
• be kind
• being kind

Be kind to me, or treat me mean. I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine Fiona Apple

• acceptance
• adulting
• adult

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible. John D. MacDonald

• time
• importance time
• rightly

Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right. Roald Dahl

• sorry
• saying
• sayings

Being an American means never having to say you're sorry. Kurt Vonnegut

• real
• recovery
• lies

Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing. Terence McKenna

• humble
• earth
• different

Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others Gordon B. Hinckley

• choices
• meanings
• oppressed

Being oppressed means the absence of choices Bell Hooks

• country
• walking
• friend

Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood. Milan Kundera

• expectation
• dead
• meanness

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. Kurt Vonnegut

• may
• storm
• tree

Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer Rainer Maria Rilke

• house
• attention
• good

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house! Nanci Griffith

• personality
• serious
• personal

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist. Jose Ortega y Gasset

• happy
• nature
• god

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that. Aretha Franklin

• job
• world
• looking at you

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself. Ralph Fiennes