The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part,… — Theodor Mommsen Copy Share Image
It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The Guardian's headline is 'How Going Green May Make You Mean.' We're inclined to think the chain of causation runs the other… — James Taranto Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing… — Linda Hunt Copy Share Image
I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
In interviews, the first question I get in America is always: 'What do you do to stay young?' I do nothing. I… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
At my age I can handle people writing junk about me on social media, but I sometimes air "mean tweets" on my… — Gretchen Carlson Copy Share Image
“And could a man sink to such triviality, such meanness, such nastiness? Could he change so much? And is it true to… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Chris [ Nolan] and I have a strange way of working from the non-movie process, where after all these conversations and reading… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The Dark Cloud Is the criticism you face because you don’t want to kiss ass Is the rage you experience when people… — Aida Mandic Copy Share Image
I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Love can excuse anything except meanness; but meanness kills love, cripples even natural affection; without esteem true love cannot exist.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“Any person's meanness of character and silliness of mind can be ugly and also seen in every activity and performance of that… — Ehsan Sehgal Copy Share Image
“But listen! Wherever you look there's meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Look here we shall die! Bear this in mind always & then the spirit within will wake up. Only then will meanness… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
“In my 14 years of existence, I've never had a girl write nice things about me. I want to cry, and I… — Megan Jacobson Copy Share Image
This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If every husband and every wife would constantly do whatever might be possible to ensure the comfort and happiness of his or… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for… — Hal Crowther Copy Share Image
But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it.… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
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