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Meanness Quotes (page 281)

Henry David Thoreau quote: "The elevation of ends and the simplification of means is the..."
The elevation of ends and the simplification of means is the goal. Henry David Thoreau
Victor Hugo quote: "It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning..."
It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she. Victor Hugo
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't..."
Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe. Kurt Vonnegut
In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery. They are those fellows who got mixed up with Catsmeat when he was meaning well. P. G. Wodehouse
A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us. Henri Nouwen
Mark Haddon quote: "I want my name to mean me."
I want my name to mean me. Mark Haddon
I didn't want to be in hell, even for a moment. I sure as hell wasn't going there just to spit in the face of the Prince of Darkness, whoever he might be! On the contrary, if I was a damned thing, then let the son of a bitch come for me! Let him tell me why I was mean to suffer. I would truly like to know. As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that. Anne Rice
Home. Wow. I’m already calling it home. Well, isn’t that what any place is? Any place that you share with someone you love, I mean? Meg Cabot
High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. Oscar Wilde
Miss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy: she was too inferior to excite feeling. Pardon the seeming paradox; I mean what I say. She was very showy, but she was not genuine; she had a fine person, many brilliant attainments, but her mind was poor, her heart barren by nature; nothing bloomed spontaneously on that soil; no unforced natural fruit delighted by its freshness. She was not good; she was not original; she used to repeat sounding phrases from books; she never offered, nor had, an... Charlotte Bronte
Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world. Bell Hooks
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is..."
I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else. Vladimir Nabokov
Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connection can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived. Jane Austen
Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of the featureless whole. Like some pocket history of the world, so general. As to constitute a sob or wail John Ashbery

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