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Quotes About Mean

Now, that's not because Barack Obama is a warm and fuzzy guy. Even those who surround Barack Obama all day describe him as a cold fish. Obama is not someone who will bring over a bowl of chicken soup when you have the flu; he's not even the guy who will drive you to the airport when it inconveniences him. Yet, somehow, he was considered the more empathetic of the two candidates. Why? Because Romney was perceived as so darn mean.
~ Ben Shapiro
As a general matter, the left's favorite three lines of attack are (1) you're stupid; (2) you're mean; (3) you're corrupt.
~ Ben Shapiro
What they want to teach instead is that is you are personally ignorant, bigoted, corrupt, and mean if you disagree with them. Their opinions are not opinions; they are fact.
~ Ben Shapiro
I try to be kind, and I try to reflect that in my comedy, but I'm also incredibly bad at being mean. I can't pull it off effectively, so I always end up reverting back to politeness.
~ Josh Gondelman
'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.
~ Larry Hagman
It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another?
~ Graham Greene
Why do I love this place so much? Is it because here human nature hasn't time to disguise itself? Nobody here could talk about a heaven on earth. Heaven remained rigidly in its proper place on the other side of death, and on this side flourished the injustices, the cruelties, the meanness that elsewhere people so cleverly hushed up
~ Graham Greene
You are not doing something foolish, are you?" In fact, she was, but that didn't mean she had to stop glaring.
~ Shannon Hale
Oh! Apple Wh-wh-white! Hi! Hey. I mean"—his voice lowered—"hey there.
~ Shannon Hale
Irene sighed and rolled her eyes. "Just give her the flowers so we can be gone." She glanced at Van. "I grow tired of the company." Paul walked away and Van leaned against the wall, staring down Irene's cleavage. "You know, Irene," he said low, so only she could hear, "when you're mean to me like that…" "Yes?" "It makes me so horny.
~ Shelly Laurenston
In the meane time know this, that the learning of warranties is one of the most curious and cunning learnings of the law, and of great use and consequence.
~ Edward Coke
So here at last were the first lines of the story that was later to come clear, a story of spite and bigotry, too mean and petty to be called tragedy, but tragic for all that.
~ Mary Stewart
Sometimes I've survived anger only one minute at a time, by saying to myself again and again that the best kind of revenge is some kind of life beyond this, some kind of goodness. And I can lay no claim to goodness until I can prove that mean people have not made me mean.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
That the electorate could validate such a mean, grabby, self-aggrandizing man. At any level.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I smiled. You mean, to play it the way you would. Yes, that was probably true. Again, she would be coming to similar conclusions, mutatis mutandis, as the lawyers like to say, about me.
~ Barry Eisler
It may be upsetting when someone says mean things on Twitter, but it is not the same as the slave trade or the Holocaust.
~ Steven Pinker
A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser.
~ Euclid
I'm a hungry individual, but I'm not mean.
~ Howie Long
I had become mean and stupid and deliberately hurtful because that is what is expected of restaurant critics. Of critics in general.
~ Giles Coren
I don't like how social media allows people to be so mean and say really hurtful, negative things. It's just not cool.
~ Skai Jackson
I'm not a mean person, so it kind of hurts when people are mean to me, but that's life.
~ Kane Brown
See your project as one in a class of similar projects already done, as "one of those." Use data from that class—about cost, time, benefits, or whatever else you want to forecast—as your anchor. Then adjust up or down, if necessary, to reflect how your specific project differs from the mean in the class. That's it.
~ Bent Flyvbjerg
I hate mean people. People who just pick at you and try to force you into a train wreck.
~ Method Man
Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.
~ Jim Rogers