Quotes About Meddling

Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.

There are two reasons why some people don't mind their own business. One is that they have no mind, and the other is that they have no business.

We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what isn't one's own ... Then, it turns out that this doing one's own work-provided that it comes to be in a certain way-is justice.

God was not some white-robed cloud king prone to sentimental meddling in human affairs. He was the iron that formed its core, and the fire in the belly of the blast furnaces that ran for a hundred years. God was the law of iron and the law of fire. God was nature and nature was God. There could not be one without the other.

A man who spends his time pokin' his ....... nose into other's sinfulness has nay time to tend his own.

Life for Faraday was, by definition, beyond any kind of mere human meddling. That meant that anything that turned out as a matter of fact, amenable to experimental investigation, simply could not be the principle of life.

People are always ruining things for you.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

Dagobert's enemies greatly resented Wilfrid's interference in Frankish politics

Being there for someone is different to picking sides. Stop stirring sh.. and get out of their business.

We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people -- leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.

For fuck's sake, these humans are always in the way, trying to save me from stuff.

Listen Relda, stop meddling in our affairs or you're going to regret it," said the mayor. "If you don't want me meddling, then you must really do a better job of covering up your mistakes.

A finger in every pie.

The world will not alter for all your meddling.

That's the trouble with this country, people keep messin' up each other's movies.

Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

Why did you butt in when it was none of your business?

I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. I summoned demons. I ate the entire little cheese, including the rind.

Just a little meddling with dark forces better left alone," I said lightly, holding up the burning shingle.

That is clear enough. The dislike of America has nothing to do with democracy versus dictatorship, or wealth, or freedom of religion and assembly. It is directly related to American foot-dragging in stick-handling a just settlement of the Palestinian question, while continuing to meddle in Middle Eastern affairs, including the stationing of troops on soil considered sacred to Islam. In short, American foreign policy was the root of the conflict.

Politics is the art of preventing people from minding their own business.

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

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