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Quotes About Meddling

The ancient Ionians were the first we know of to argue systematically that laws and forces of Nature, rather than gods, are responsible for the order and even the existence of the world. As Lucretius summarized their views, "Nature free at once and rid of her haughty lords is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself without the meddling of the gods.
~ Carl Sagan
Oh, no, said the Lecturer in Recent Runes, pushing his chair back. Not that. That's meddling with things you don't understand. Well, we are wizards, said Ridcully. We're supposed to meddle in things we don't understand. If we hung around waitin' till we understood things we'd never get anything done.
~ Terry Pratchett
He'd have been a little bit happier if there'd been a demon or some sort of magic. Something simple and understandable. He didn't like the idea of meddling in science.
~ Terry Pratchett
Will you stop meddling in my love life?" I growled. "I'm not meddling. I'm offering commentary.
~ Ilona Andrews
There's nothing more infuriating than someone who wants to help.
~ Steven Gould
I am a manipulative person, whom some might call evil, because I like to interfere in people's lives.
~ Storm Constantine
Now, that isn't to say that I don't think Cain should have at least counted to ten, like I was trying to do, but maybe Abel was a meddler, just like my sister. And perhaps, even though Cain had repeatedly told him to back off, Abel decided to stick his nose into his brother's business one to many times—thus deserving a good wallop on the noggin after all.
~ Nancy Martin
Didn't he come to—to ask you for some magic? No, he came to enjoy the view of the Wood, the Dragon said. Of course he came for magic, and I sent him about his business, which is hacking at enemy knights and not meddling in things he scarcely understands.
~ Naomi Novik
gente que no tiene vida siempre se tiene que meter en la de los dem
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
People who have no life always have to stick their nose in the life of others
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
La gente que no tiene vida siempre se tiene que meter en la de los demás.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Why don't you call her?" "She doesn't answer," Chase said. "She may be somewhere that there's no cell phone service or she may have her phone turned off." He'd be embarrassed to say how many times he'd tried. That's what guilt—in other words, meddling—did to a man.
~ Genell Dellin
white magic is black magic. a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people, and demons used for good can hang around and make mischief afterwards.
~ Iris Murdoch
Now I'll be left alone, and that's all you want, all you crave out of life: to be left alone while you get on with the business of interfering with others. In
~ Irvine Welsh
Tattlers also and busy bodies, speaking things which they ought not.
~ Bible
This morbid meddling of conscience with an immaterial matter betokened, it is to be feared, no genuine and steadfast penitence, but something doubtful, something that might be deeply wrong, beneath.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.
~ George Washington
The Democrats are up to their necks in foreign meddling. Nancy Pelosi took money from Ukraine lobbyists. Chuck Schumer took money from Saudi Arabia and Mexico.
~ Steve Hilton
That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.
~ T. S. Eliot
I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.
~ Tommy Hilfiger
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
~ Plato
The narrative often from Democrats and the media is that Republicans don't think the Russians have meddled in our election. They did.
~ John Ratcliffe
No one is more avidly curious about other people's doings than those persons whom they do not concern.
~ Victor Hugo
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
~ Irwin Shaw