Quotes About Mean

I must be losing patience with my fellow humans," Miss Beryl went on. "Anymore I'm all for executing people who are mean to children. I used to favor just cutting off their feet. Now I want to rid the world of them completely. If this keeps up I'll be voting Republican soon.

There were many more folk ditties, some mean, others filthy, all of them cruel. No one ever thought of questioning our right to do this; our mothers and parents generally approved, either actively or passively. To hold an attitude of antagonism or distrust toward Jews was bred in us from childhood; it was not merely racial prejudice, it was a part of our cultural heritage.

Makes us appreciate blessing, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus.

I think we can all agree that this deaf elf sure plays a mean pinball.

God is so angry. All that power, and so mean with it.

He needs to respect you and know you mean business, but it's not your business to be mean.

For instance, one thing we'll need to do is create a climate of questioning ideas without evidence. This is not being "mean" or "bashing" or "unprofessional." It's what' professional scientists do. It needs to become our norm.

But the thing about divorcing someone is that you kind of stop listening to all the mean stuff they say about you after a while.)

Gabrielle turned to the others. "You heard her. Out. When Janet takes down the mean old witch, we can come back and dance on her entrails." I needed to have a serious talk with Gabrielle.

I never, ever read the comments below an article on the Web. People are mean. I'm a human being.

Arn Anderson - I loved 'The Enforcer' Arn. He cut the best promos. He always looked cool because he had that Polo with the rope chain, the rose-colored glasses, and that mean beard.

I can't be around someone who is negative because I am such a positive person. If you are mean, then we don't speak.

Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?

I think people throw the term 'sociopath' around a lot without knowing what it means - but people who don't understand that what they're doing is mean and wrong and cruel, they need to be made to understand that.

When they write about real stuff like my custody battle, that's no fun. Some things have leaked out about accusations that have gone back and forth and that's just mean. It's a tactic.

I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large.

I retired Wild Bill's Navy Colt pistol a while back and replaced it with a Smith & Wesson .460 hunting pistol. The thing is so big and mean it doesn't even need bullets. I could beat Godzilla to death with it if I stood on a chair.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

I parked my distinctive Cadillac—I say distinctive not because it's beautiful but because it's a '41 convertible painted a God-awful yellow—across the street from the Spartan Apartment Hotel. I smoked a cigarette while I worried, then flipped the butt carelessly in the general direction of the well-kept grounds of the Wilshire Country Club. That's how mean I felt.

Like frustrated suburban wives we fed on each other's discontent; we became divided into mean little cliques and subdivided into jealously shifting pairs of buddies, and we pieced out our idleness with gossip.

How do you suppose we'd go about finding one?" she asked. "A psychiatrist, I mean. Aren't a lot of them supposed to be quacks? Well, but still, I guess that isn't really much of a problem, is it.

He laughed, looking down into his empty cup. "Decent people don't expect that kind of twistedness." He put the cup down on the floor. "And if they ever did suspect it, they'd just blame themselves for thinking too mean. You should trust your disquiet the next time. That's what it's there for. A man like that gets where he is by seeming. And then he makes you feel obligated to him. It's an old trick.

She's magnificent, Radius said, smiling proudly as he vaulted the steps and followed Aphrodite. I can think of a lot of m words that she could be. Magnificent isn't one of them, Stark grumbled. Mental and mean pop into my head, I said. Manure pops into mine, Stark said. Manure? I think she's full of shot, but it's too many words and doesn't start with an m, so that's as close as I could get, he said.

... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.