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Quotes About Mean

Girls," she whispered under her breath, wondering why it was that adolescent girls simply had to be mean to their mothers. Clearly it was normal behavior; she'd spent enough time with her friends and peers to know that. So normal it was probably part of evolution. Maybe the species needed girls who thought they were grown up at thirteen for some bizarre, hidden reason.
~ Kristin Hannah
If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.
~ Kurt Cobain
If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.
~ Kurt Cobain
Of course," said Mik, without missing a beat. "However, as cool a word as samurai is, I don't think it's what we really mean. We just want to be able to kick ass, right?" "Well, definitely don't phrase it that way. We'd probably just become highly skilled at kicking people in the ass. Don't turn your back on them," she intoned. "They never miss.
~ Laini Taylor
REFERENCE RANGES FOR MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN (MCH) Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin (pg/cell) Category Greater than 43 High (hyperchromic) 26 to 43 Normal Less than 26 Low (hypochromic)
~ James B. LaValle
If anything, 'Friday Night Dinner' is quite mean. All these pranks that we play on each other, there's a lot of hitting and slapping and jumping at each other trying to scare each other. But underneath it all it is a family, so we all love each other.
~ Simon Bird
Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
~ Barry Ritholtz
The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.
~ Tim Allen
Do not believe in a god who is as silly, and meaner than you. For, that would surely be your higher-self, and your stupid alter-ego.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I'm a normal person. Just because I'm in the spotlight doesn't mean I'm God's gift to the world. I'm learning and making mistakes just like every other 17-year-old girl out there.
~ Hayden Panettiere
By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve.
~ Charles Francis Richter
I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.
~ Bridget Fonda
His was one of those petty and mean natures, towards which it is dangerous to practice magnanimity; to his paltry spirit it appeared certainly a dictate of prudence to supplant at the first opportunity his reluctantly acknowledged rival, and his mean soul thirsted after a possibility of retaliating on Caesar for the humiliation which he had suffered through Caesar's indulgence.
~ Theodor Mommsen
Ever since Plato, bourgeois consciousness has deceived itself that objective antinomies could be mastered by steering a middle course between them, whereas the sought-out mean always conceals the antinomy and is torn apart by it.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
Petty ambition would seem to be a mean craving after distinction.
~ Theophrastus
Evil lived in the world. Wars and terror. Torture and assault. But he also knew that, statistically, the worst among them were a small percentage of the whole—it just felt like a lot more because that's how it went. Same way one mean comment could spoil a beautiful day
~ Chuck Wendig
Mean eyes, angry eyes, eyes that had nothing but suspicion flashing in them like light off spent bullet casings.
~ Chuck Wendig
Plantation justice was mean and constant but the world was indiscriminate. Out in the world, the wicked escaped comeuppance and the decent stood in their stead at the whipping tree. Tennessee's disasters were the fruit of indifferent nature, without connection to the crimes of the homesteaders. To how the Cherokee had lived their lives.
~ Colson Whitehead
All extremes are dangerous. It is best to keep in the middle of the road, in the common ruts, however muddy.
~ Virginia Woolf
One of you brothers, I'm guessing?' 'Yep. The mean one. Oh, wait, they're all mean.' She grinned. 'You are so fucked.
~ Larissa Ione
People think man is cruel. Hey, what about the child of man? There ain't nothing meaner than some little deranged six-year-old sadistic motherfucker loose in a playground. You think a person's got to be grown before he's a maniac? Shit.
~ Larry Brown
'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
There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
~ Laura Ingraham
Girls can be more bitchy and mean, and Aspie girls don't play that game. They are loyal, trustworthy, and kind. They just don't do bitchiness, and they find it very hard to understand why girls would actually enjoy being so cruel to each other and so destructive.
~ Laura James