Meanness Quotes

114 Meanness quotes by 90 unique authors

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he… — Henry David Thoreau
Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry… — John Adams
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. — Charles Dickens
Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away. — Cormac McCarthy
Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and… — Carson McCullers
This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an… — Unknown Author
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 meanness you’ve dealt… — Charlaine Harris
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you… — Dean Koontz
My mother says that when Mrs. Rowley is mean, which is generally the case, it is really because she is just unhappy, and who could… — Laura Moriarty
A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but… — Cormac McCarthy
You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is… — Wilhelm Reich
Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty,… — Elizabeth Bear
Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the… — Rebecca Stead
Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness. — Miguel de Cervantes
We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy.… — John Adams
It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of religious self-righteousness this article deplores… — Marilynne Robinson
We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes… — Jane Hamilton
Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything off balance. If… — Flannery O'Connor
Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts. — Sue Monk Kidd
Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source… — Dean Koontz
Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth. — Elizabeth Gaskell
Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful… — Jeannette Walls
Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else. — Aristotle

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