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Quotes About Mean

Don't be bitter and mean 'cause you don't fit in, it's a GIFT. Look at you. You've got your individuality, you don't have the herd instinct, you can read Nietzsche and understand it. Only dumb people are happy.
~ Courtney Love
That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.
~ Captain Beefheart
Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a vicious, mean, cruel, awful place.
~ Loudon Wainwright III
1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.
~ Leon Askin
A cask of whisky slipped from the hoisting gear, broke on the roof of a transit shed, and poured all over MacRae. He's ready to murder someone - which is why I brought him up here to you." Despite her concern, Merritt let out a snort of laughter. "Luke Marsden, are you planning to hide behind my skirts while I confront the big, mean Scotsman?" "Absolutely," he said without hesitation. "You like them big and mean.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I went to the tray on the bed-table and picked up the Vicodin tablets the nurse had been trying to get him to take, along with a cup of water. "Take these," I said. "No arguing." He obeyed, shooting a glance at the nurse, whose eyebrows were slightly raised. "She's little," he told her, "but she's mean.
~ Lisa Kleypas
The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
~ Unknown
You know you've been mean to me And you know when you're mean to me How it always makes me wanna roam And you know there's a danger That some gentle stranger Might pick me up and make me feel at home.
~ Unknown
I could not tame my nature down; for he Must serve who fain would sway -- and soothe -- and sue -- And watch all time -- and pry into all place -- And be a living lie -- who would become A mighty thing amongst the mean, and such The mass are; I disdained to mingle with A herd, though to be leader -- and of wolves. The lion is alone, and so am I.
~ Unknown
There's always some smart ass Englishmen coming over here and telling us we're mean and vulgar. I agree. But they showed their hand way back during the Irish Potato Famine as instinctual Nazis.
~ Jim Harrison
Maria, for Christ's fucking sake, they've been screening it every night for a month, you know that—oh shit." "I didn't mean to be that way," she said after a while. "You never mean to be any way.
~ Joan Didion
I'm convinced that some people just go through life being mean just to get ahead but i've never had that mentality.
~ Unknown
Every time our cat tries to hiss she has all choked up. That's what she gets for being mean!
~ Unknown
So many people think I'm mean, I hate being misunderstood man...its not cool.
~ Unknown
Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
~ Aristotle
A man must take with him into the world below an adamantine faith in truth and right, that there too he may be undazzled by the desire of wealth or the other allurements of evil, lest, coming upon tyrannies and similar villainies, he do irremediable wrongs to others and suffer yet worse himself; but let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible, not only in this life but in all that which is to come. For this is the way of happiness. And
~ Plato
Well, I can throw a mean comeback, so there's that. I will crush them on wit.
~ Rachel Caine
Something wrong with short men, is there?" Roger inquired. "They tend to turn mean if they don't get their way," Claire answered. "Like small yapping dogs. Cute and fluffy, but cross them and you're likely to get a nasty nip in the ankle.
~ Diana Gabaldon
The apotheosis of Sincerity to which Tsu-Tsu gives expression in the Doctrine of the Mean attributes to it transcendental powers, almost identifying them with the Divine. "Sincerity is the end and the beginning of all things; without Sincerity there would be nothing." He then dwells with eloquence on its far-reaching and long enduring nature, its power to produce changes without movement and by its mere presence to accomplish its purpose without effort.
~ Inaz? Nitobe
This kind of measuring DOWN to an average mean, clearly obliterates recognition of ultra- and super-sensitivities, the realization of which might actually be of extreme importance and relevance.
~ Unknown
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
~ J. D. Salinger
The experiments showed further that the mean filial regression towards mediocrity was directly proportional to the parental deviation from it.
~ Daniel Kahneman
I have a mean streak and I am capable of cruelty. This does not mean that I am necessarily mean and cruel; instead, it means that I have to be vigilant about my capacity for cruelty and the mean bone in my body.
~ Tom Junod