Meddling Quotes

55 Meddling quotes by 49 unique authors

Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state. — John Selden
The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as… — Thomas Frank
We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours. — Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from… — Theodore Roosevelt
There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results. — Will Self
We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since… — Lewis Thomas
Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will want… — Robert Winston
From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You… — Anais Nin
In politics as in religion, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to… — George Washington
Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to… — Henry Miller
Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis. — Karl Marx
Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and… — Jane Austen
India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it,… — Thrity Umrigar
If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either… — Thomas Sowell
Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling in all matters… — Carl Hiaasen
Don't cross me Scooby-Doo. I'm not an old man in a mask waiting to be thwarted by you meddling kids. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Meddling, smug, stupid little..." "She likes me! They always play hard to get when they like me!" "No. You do not understand. I could not… — Darren Shan
Been meddling, have you?” Royce asked, looking around at the hive of activity. “You must admit they didn’t have much in the way of a… — Michael J. Sullivan
A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He… — William Faulkner
Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect — William Wordsworth
Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods. — Lucretius
Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government. — George Allen
Writers take words seriously-perhaps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters… — John Updike
I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an immediate investigation. It… — John Sherman Cooper
We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which… — Henry Cabot Lodge

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