Quotes About Meddling

The Russians have a long history of interfering in elections - theirs and other people's.

The beaver dam had been constructed on the ruins of a man-made one, built by the CCC back in the thirties and later dynamited by an irate Finn who'd objected to the government's meddling with nature.

Those who always know what's best are a universal pest.

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

Another strategy for dealing with meddling stakeholders is to overwhelm them with tasks and communication. They insist on being involved, so involve them. If they have time to be this involved, give them work to do and assign actions to keep them busy with nonrisky or unimportant activities. Real work often makes people invisible and may make a meddling stakeholder invisible too.

As one journeys through life," said Poirot, "one finds more and more that people are often interested in things that are none of their own business. Even more so than they are in things that could be considered as their own business.

Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.

Writers don't have friends. Only deadlines. And cheating publishers. And meddling editors. And carping reviewers. And checks that never come when they're supposed to come, and are always short when they do come.

We had the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, now we're living in the Interfering Age.

No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.

Your mom's in our business...she's in our business... Can't you see, girl, that your mom's trying to end this?

Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect.

I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.

Our disposition toward the ills which our fellow-man inflicts on us through malice or meddling is quite different from our disposition toward the ills which are inherent in the conditions of human life.

They seem to think that interference is good if only they interfere. In

Brown inherited a growing economy, low inflation and rising tax revenues. If he had just done nothing, or stayed in bed, or taken up Scottish country dancing full time, or gone on holiday for the rest of his life and not meddled with the economy, he would have gone down in history as one of Britain's greatest ever chancellors.

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Grace thought, Perhaps I ought to comment on some news. Unfortunately Grace was one of those people who can become a bore and an irritation to others and an anguish to themselves because their lives are dominated by "ought". "What ought I to do? Do you think I ought to -"... They refuse to let a situation rest; they must tamper with it, adjust it, change it, impose upon it their immediate concern of "ought".

He began to dislike her intensely. Fussy ole thing! Believing everything everyone said to her! Interfering

The problem with meddling," said Charles under his breath, "is that for every problem you solve, you create two more.