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Meanness Quotes (page 178)

You know what my mother said to me when she came to say good-bye, as if to cheer me up, she says maybe District Twelve will finally have a winner. Then I realized she didn't mean me, she meant you!" bursts out Peeta."Oh, she meant you," I say with a wave of dismissal."She said, 'She's a survivor, that one.' She is," says Peeta. That pulls me up short. Did his mother really say that about me? Did she rate me over her son? I see the pain in Peeta's eyes and know he isn't lying. Suddenly I'm... Suzanne Collins
Anton Chekhov quote: "When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means..."
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured. Anton Chekhov
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. J. R. R. Tolkien
Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it. Mitch Albom
At that moment he knew what his mother was thinking, and that she loved him. But he knew, too, that to love someone means relatively little; or, rather, that love is never strong enough to find the words befitting it. Thus he and his mother would always love each other silently. Albert Camus
So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly stand for what they most dislike, the opposite of the blond beast intellectualist, individualist, supernationalist, pacifist, inky, plump... How should they know the glory of the free-ranging intellect and soft objective sympathy to whom money and violence, drink and blood and pomp, mean absolutely nothing? John Maynard Keynes
If you're approaching Him not as the goal but as a road, not as the end but as a means, you're not really approaching Him at all. C. S. Lewis
As we parted at the Natural History Museum in London, I asked Richard Fortey how science ensures that when one person goes there's someone ready to take his place. He chuckled rather heartily at my naivet. 'I'm afraid it's not as if we have substitutes sitting on the bench somewhere waiting to be called in to play. When a specialist retires or, even more unfortunately, dies, that can bring a stop to things in that field, sometimes for a very long while.' And I suppose that's why you value... Bill Bryson
Stephen Jay Gould quote: "The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of..."
The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning. Stephen Jay Gould
Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends. Paul Fussell
When you set down the path to create art, whatever sort of art it is, understand that the path is neither short not easy. That means you must determine if the route is worth the effort. If it's not, dream bigger. Seth Godin
It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture. Lois McMaster Bujold
Steven Wright quote: "You cannot have everything. I mean, where would you put it."
You cannot have everything. I mean, where would you put it. Steven Wright
It is forbidden to fight on the Killing Ground," he said, and paused while he considered the sense of this. "You know what I mean anyway... Terry Prachett
Charles Bukowski quote: "There is no hurry. Time means nothingto you."
There is no hurry. Time means nothingto you. Charles Bukowski

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